https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/preston-model-modern-politics-municipal-socialism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preston-model-modern-politics-municipal-socialism Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/preston-model-modern-politics-municipal-socialism/#comment-1255 Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:30:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=3094#comment-1255 That’s pretty interesting. I’ll have to re-read it. Mondragon as a model took some heavy criticism from business development colleagues at Yorkshire Forward (pre-abolition of the English RDAs). So why Margret Thatcher have such a particular distaste for Municipal structures? When Eric Pickles abolished YF, before the Lib Dem coalition partners even could get to their desks, it just seemed to be a very personal almost ‘knee-jerk’ attack on his ex-sparring partners in Bradford, that even Regional Tories were shocked by; but did he ever articulate (as an ex-Socialist) any conservative (small c) vision for any model of Localism beyond flying the old county flags.

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