Are you actually phobic about private education? I had a far better education thanks to my parents going into debt than any state school in my area could give. There was no coca-cola, no religion drummed into you. Look at Sweden which has injected competition into its education system - none of those things have happened and the education has improved massively. However, if parents want what you suggest, who are we to deny them because we disagree? Or are we really authoritarians who want to impose ‘freedom’ upon people?

Lower taxes? Why not? We waste so much money on regulation, quangos, administering taxation and things like tax credits. ID cards have wasted billions, the Olympics is doing likewise. Lets free people from the state, give them their money back, let them decide how to spend it!

Those who claim that taxes can’t be cut have given in the the Labour socialist managerialism of Brown.

Taxes should be to pay for things which are needed, not to make socialists feel good.

Retrenchment is part of the Liberal heritage, time to reclaim that.

I really despair if the Lib Dem’s take any of the steps you’re saying, especially what has to be the most unworkable idea of “lower taxes for all”