George Monbiot claims Land Value Tax as a Green Party idea

Our Vice Chairman Tony Vickers writes about George Monbiot in yesterday's Guardian.

LVT is a truly transformative Big Idea - which was OURS but is now claimed by Greens! Indeed, when I was a young Liberal, both these were ingrained in our philosophy, not just Policy..

Monbiot states "Last week I ran a small online poll, asking people to nominate inspiring, transfiguring ideas. The two mentioned most often were land value taxation and a basic income. As it happens, both are championed by the Green Party(7,8). On this and other measures, its policies are by a long way more progressive than Labour's."

It is not too late to reclaim them.

Monbiot goes on....

"These ideas require courage: the courage to confront the government, the opposition, the plutocrats, the media, the suspicions of a wary electorate. But without proposals on this scale, progressive politics is dead. They strike that precious spark, so seldom kindled in this age of triangulation and timidity: the spark of hope."