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With more breweries than ever opening in the U.S., some start-ups are looking beyond traditional fundraising efforts to get brewing. A growing mode of start-up fundraising has emerged through crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter.
Since its founding in April of 2009, Kickstarter (originally Kickstartr) is a crowd-funding tool that anyone can use to get creative projects funded. Kickstarter allows donors to choose small to large contribution amounts, which can result in a "crowd" of people supporting one idea, instead of the traditional angel investor that covers all the start-up costs. Brewers now have the opportunity to put out their projects and raise funds - one donor at a time - trying to hit a target amount. At the scale of breweries, can be a great fit to get your first equipment purchases and hit the ground running.
While scanning new beer-related projects, I came across one for Strong Brewing Company, a brewery in planning out of Sedgwick, ME hoping to raise $7,500. This amount is far below the average being asked for by most projects, and it comes with an interesting twist.
According to the page, the money raised would go towards purchasing equipment, remodeling a brewery space, obtaining ingredients, and the payment of licensing fees. However, most of the continuous funding for the brewing itself will be accomplished through their "Community Supported Beer" (CSB) model, selling shares of a subscription to new beers. Similar to a CSA or Community Supported Agriculture share, the beer would be available to shareholders at regular intervals.
View the introduction to Al and Mia Strong's brewery here:
The Strongs are setting out to do something quite interesting. A full CBS Share gives you the ability to get 48 growler fills per year (either 64 oz or 32 oz), and first access to special and limited release beers. For the full share, a full-sized growler is $340, and the half size is $171. That turns out to be just a little over $7.00 per full-sized fill, which is a ballpark for the average cost of a pint of craft beer in a bar these days, at least around here. The half-sized growlers end up costing about $3.50 per fill. For those worried about getting to Sedgwick for that many fills, there is also a half share available of 24 fills per year costing $172 for full size growlers and $87 for a half size growler, respectively.
I am very interested to see if this model takes off, and the small price that the Strongs are looking to raise on Kickstarter has already been about 1/3 of the way funded. As part of the Kickstarter model, if you pledge a certain level of support, you can receive a reward relative to the size of your contribution (think of PBS fundraising drives). For $10, you can get your name inscribed on the wall of the brewery, for $25 you can get your name on the brewery and a magnet, etc. If you're feeling particularly generous, a $500 donation gets you the ability for you to come up with and name a special edition beer. (Hmm… Anyone up for a Beer Babe Belgian IPA?).
Investing in any Kickstarter project has its benefits and drawbacks. As far as risks go, if the project doesn't meet its goal, the funds you've pledged don't come out of your pocket at all. If they do get funded, the money is taken out on the deadline date. However, just because you're donating start-up funding and getting something as a reward, but it doesn't make you a part owner of the company, or entitled to profits later on. On the other hand, if the brewery closes or never gets off the ground, you don't get your money back then, either. But, it's becoming a viable funding source, especially for smaller-scale projects when banks and lenders are a little shy about taking a risk on a brewery.
In 2010 I noticed that, in addition to the creative projects usually appearing on the site, brewery start-ups began to appear more often. After an extensive search through Kickstarter's past project archives, I was able to find 49 successfully funded beer-related projects funded between 2009-2012. The total amount raised for these 49 breweries was just over $1,000,000 which makes the average amount that they were each able to raise in the $20,000 range.
I have contributed to other brewery and beer-related Kickstarter projects (Including the now-operational Lucid Brewing, Community Beer Works, Mystery Brewing Company and Rogness Brewing Company), hoping to encourage the next generation of brewers hoping to break into craft beer. However, it was not until I saw the Strong Brewing Company's page on Kickstarter that I realized I could also be helping Maine-based craft brewers. I encourage you to check out their page and see what they are all about.
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What are the first things that you would do when you come home after a hard day's work? Yes, many working men—and women, too, would say the same thing that you've got in your mind: They would take off their coat, sit on the couch and turn on the TV set. In fact, even on weekends, after doing the chores like mowing the lawn or tidying up the house, they would rest on the couch, read the morning papers or watch TV. And if you ask these men and women what is the most frequently used furniture inside their house, they would surely answer: "My Lazyboy Recliner, of course, which I sit on after a hard day's work.â€
Now, perhaps you're wondering to yourself: "What the devil is a lazyboy recliner?†Well, it's basically a couch with a reclining backrest. But unlike what its name suggests, it's not meant for the lazy bones. It's a piece of furniture whose super comfort is designed to reward busy bodies, after a hard day's work. By pulling on a side lever, the backrest can be made to recline to any angle that best suits your comfort, and a footrest cleverly hidden in front of the chair automatically extends up to accommodate your tired feet.
New electrically operated models of the lazyboy recliner have backrests and footrests that can recline or extend at the push of a button. Flip open an armrest and you have easy access to a refrigerator that can store and chill up to six cans of beer or soft drinks. Is your back aching after long hours sitting in front of your office computer, or feeling a bit chilly? No problem, just flick on a switch in your lazyboy recliner and a massager gives your tired back a soothing massage while a built-in heater warms you up.
To be sure, a lazyboy recliner does not come cheap. When you decide to buy one, you're not just buying furniture to give a certain accent to your living room, but are actually investing in comfort masked as a piece of furniture. A lazyboy recliner is definitely an investment that you need to save up for because no home can truly be called "warm and comfortable†without one.
With all these technological innovations, this very comfortable and durable piece of furniture had become notorious in recent years for lulling to sleep anybody who dared sit on it. And it would take a lot of will power to disprove that a lazyboy recliner will not live up to its name of making its owner very satisfied—and yes… lazy.


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Interoperability between the PSTN and IP networks has taken on tremendous importance as of late, primarily because the PSTN has been providing voice service for over 125 years and happens to own over 99.8 percent of the market. From the beginning, the PSTN was designed to carry voice with reasonable sound quality. From their inception, IP networks were created to transport data as efficiently as possible. Because of these different roles, there are issues that must be resolved between the PSTN (circuit-switched world) and IP networks (packet-based world) in order for IP Telephony devices to be as ubiquitous as your telephone.
The PSTN allows the phone, a dumb 125-year-old end device, to be connected to hundreds of millions of other phones throughout the world. This is over a network with five nines (99.999 percent) of reliability, fast call setup times, a robust feature set, and a sophisticated billing and settlement system. That sounds like magic, but remember, this technology has been evolving since the last century. So how does this dumb device, the telephone, do all of these functions while we have such a hard time with an intelligent device such as a PC, which is vastly more expensive than a phone?
INTELLIGENCE IN THE NETWORK The answer is an intelligent control network with strictly enforced national (ANSI) and international (ITU) standards often referred to as the Signaling System 7 (SS7) network. In essence, a very smart network, properly referred to as the Intelligent Network (IN), controls your dumb telephone. This intelligent network is getting smarter all the time as new SS7-based features emerge to offer more enhanced services such as central office voice mail, follow-me services, voice recognition dialing, and the like.
INTELLIGENCE AT THE ENDPOINTS The IP network is the exact opposite of the PSTN. It is a very stupid network with intelligent endpoints (e.g., servers, PCs, and such). It uses fast packet routers and switches, which are essentially dumb devices with just enough intelligence to determine where to send packets. The stupid network is growing fast because it can do things that the PSTN cannot do. The networking equipment is inexpensive (compared to PSTN switches) and it's mostly free due to the interconnection agreements of the Internet.
Because of the phenomenal growth of the Internet, it was only natural to find ways to use packet networks to offer voice services - thus, the birth of a new industry, Internet telephony. In 1998, we anticipate two-tenths of one percent of domestic voice traffic will be carried over IP networks. By the year 2002, some analysts (such as Probe Research) believe that we should see numbers in the range of 18 percent.
In many ways, the emerging IP telephony industry is undergoing the same type of growth problems that the original PSTN had, albeit in "Internet time." There were major interoperability problems for over fifty years in the PSTN; until a gentleman named Vail convinced the U.S. government that telecommunications was vital to economic growth and national security. Regulations where passed that forced standards on the public phone system. These regulations made the PSTN a truly national and eventually an international communications medium that most of us take for granted today.
For IP telephony to succeed, IP networks need to carry voice with the same Quality of Services (QoS) and with functionality that meets or exceeds the current PSTN. IP telephony networks must offer enhanced services such as call waiting, caller ID, as well as other such services. It has to offer a global reach that is easy to use and it must have the same reliability that is synonymous with those three little words: The dial tone. And of course, it needs to interoperate with today's PSTN.
BUILDING ON THE PAST So how do we create this new future in IP telephony? Do we reinvent all of the features of the PSTN into an IP world? Or do we find ways to leverage the infrastructure already in place and add only what we need? Certain vendors believe that we should create new services with IP telephony while building upon the core infrastructure of the PSTN. After all, it took us thirty years to create a worldwide intelligent network that makes our telephone work everywhere, all of the time. Let's take advantage of it.
By interfacing into the SS7 network, one can build IP Telephony access devices, which offer features to satisfy our most basic needs in telephony: Features such as one-stage dialing, fast call setup times, many enhanced SS7 services, and the use of legacy billing and settlement services. Thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, anyone can have access to the SS7 network. From here, technology vendors can tackle the challenges of H.323 video conferencing, Web telephony, and phone-to-anything communications.
A JETSON-LIKE FUTURE Let's go back in time. Some of you may remember a cartoon called the Jetsons. This cartoon was about the future where man travels around the planet and across outer space much like we go for a ride down the highway today. The one thing about this TV show that really impressed me was the ability to communicate with anyone (global), at anytime (reliable), over any distance (scalable), from any place (portable). The Jetsons could even see each other (video) and talk to inanimate objects like their car, house, or office (data).
Some believe that for Jetson-style communication, the PSTN must go the way of the dinosaur (Flintstone technology). As a Bell-head and ex-AT&T/MCI alumni, I'll go so far as to say the PSTN will be here long after I have left this world. There are 1,000 billion dollars of PSTN infrastructure built around this world. If the PSTN is here to stay, however, how is it going to evolve to meet the needs of the Jetsons?
The future is not just about IP telephony, it's about offering global universal services which run on a variety of networks including cable, satellite, Internet, and who know what else. There is no doubt that the PSTN alone cannot deliver the futuristic Jetsons type of communications for a number of reasons. Lack of bandwidth, last mile termination, technology immaturity, government regulations, lack of standards, and interoperability are just a few good reasons. The PSTN needs to interwork with packet networks to make universal access possible, and the carriers will be offering this kind of service in the near future.
The circuit-switched network isn't going to go away anytime soon. There will be a transition from circuit to packet, and long term co-existence is likely. There are plenty of circuit-switched carriers that want to get into IP services above and beyond basic Internet connectivity. AT&T, MCI, US West, and others have already announced investments and ventures in the IP telephony realm. For example, AT&T is backing ITXC, while US West and Bell Atlantic have invested in IP phone and videoconferencing technology developer VDONet.
These carriers already have legacy billing systems and business processes in place, plus they have billions invested in their circuit-switched networks. They don't want to create new billing and OSS networks just for IP telephony. They need to find ways to interface their 30-year-old COBOL billing networks to their IP telephony gateways.
CONCLUSION The integration between SS7 and remote access is about the simple transition of a PSTN circuit to an IP packet seamlessly. Voice or data - it makes no difference. Leave SS7 on the PSTN alone, it works great, and discover what services are important to the customer and innovate with new IP signaling systems and advanced feature/functionality over time. Remember, when it comes to voice, quality and simplicity are more important than the fact that it's being carried on an IP network.
IP services, and especially IP telephony, have caught Wall Street's attention and investment dollars are flowing to IP carriers by the billions. The next investment wave for these IP carriers will be in billing, customer care systems, and telecom class services. This spells opportunity for innovative software and hardware vendors looking to enter new markets. Carriers, whether they're circuit-switched or IP, can rest assured that they'll have plenty of solutions to choose from. Your future in IP telephony is high-quality service built upon legacy PSTN infrastructure, with a whole new class of services that none of us have even dreamed about.
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Rick Pierson is director of business development and strategic alliances for Mockingbird Networks. Prior to joining Mockingbird Networks, Mr. Pierson was a Bell-head working as director of IP telephony engineering at AT&T Bell Labs, and a co-author of the MSAF IP Telephony Manifesto. Mockingbird Networks develops solutions, which integrate data communications and computer telephony technology with SS7 enhanced services to create world-class, open systems platforms that can be integrated into the telecom networking infrastructure. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.mockingbirdnet.com.


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Why I have joined the Liberal Democrats
A good thing to be said for a currently unpopular party.
By David Allen Green Published 12 April 2011 13:25(Picture courtesy of Conservative Home)
Last week I did the oddest thing -- I joined the Liberal Democrats.
At least I cannot easily be accused of crude political opportunism.
There cannot have been many who joined the party last week, or any recent week. It is not as if I am attracted by their popularity.
Indeed, the decision is a strange one in a number of ways. I am opposed to the Alternative Vote proposal, as I simply do not believe third or fourth preferences are of equal value to a first preference. I do not accept assigning powers to European Union institutions is necessarily a liberal or a democratic exercise. Liberal Democrat MPs were inexcusably wrong to break a clear pledge not to increase tuition fees. And the Deputy Prime Minister is at best an uninspiring figure. On these issues, and many more, I will not be a partisan party member. In fact, I expect to be thrown out of the party in a week.
However, there is one very good ongoing reason to support the Liberal Democrats, and it is provided by Tim Montgomerie of Conservative Home. Montgomerie, a staunch Tory, has been tracking the effect of the presence of Liberal Democrats in the Conservative government: see his posts hereand here. Montgomerie is right in his analysis: the current government is significantly more liberal than an entirely Conservative administration would otherwise be.
Politics is about power. The Labour opposition is impotent. In government they were illiberal and often brutal. There is only one political force that is having an actual liberal effect in our polity as it is presently constituted, and it is the Liberal Democrats. It may not be as strong a power as it should be. The Liberal Democrats may do well to leave the coalition and force a minority Conservative administration to gain concessions on a vote-by-vote basis. But Montgomerie's "concession-o-meter" shows why anyone who wants policy to be more liberal than it otherwise would be should support the effect the Liberal Democrats are having on Coalition government.
What the Liberal Democrats are doing in practice may not be popular, but it certainly should be commended by any liberal person.
David Allen Green is legal correspondent of the New Statesman.
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I followed the link to Tim Montgomerie's page, but I found his analysis - staunch Tory or not - incredibly one-sided, claiming practically the only concession to the Tories was the agreement to hack the deficit more quickly. What the LibDems have managed to 'achieve' in the view of most ordinary voters amounts to pretty much sweet F.A. compared to the titanic upheavals of education, the NHS and local government the Tories are pushing through. Rather than sign up to this stupid Coalition agreement, maybe the LibDems should have worked harder for a more ad hoc approach which would have left many of their key pledges in place and blunted the Tory knives, which is what we were assured the country thought it was voting for. Instead we have a rash of unpromised, unasked-for policy changes retracted or delayed not because of LibDem interference or objection but plain-and-simple Tory failure to listen to either its own grass-roots or the average voter.
I very nearly voted LibDem and am damned glad I didn't; they have become the Tory apologists, a second-string propaganda department for this latest incarnation of the Free Market Evil Empire, and, if this unholy alliance falls prematurely, will cop all the blame from the Tories as well. I suspect the voters will punish them significantly at the next election, and they will deserve every bloody humiliation for having sold out all those swing voters who backed them in the hope of avoiding another bout of Tory hack n slash.
The over-riding issue in support or otherwise for the Lib Dems is: Do you think they are right on the economy? If you think 'No' or even 'They might not be' lose no time: resign, or seek an interview with Mrs Duffy, or both.
Your a joke! The New Statesman is a Left wing paper and the LibDems should have to change their name as they are neither Liberal or Democratic. You're a man with a great platform to denounce the scum that ruined the future's of millions of children. The media shouldn't stop hacking away at them until every one of their MP's are political toast.
i can see that there might be some fun in joining the lib dems just to support those already in it who want to see the end of clegg's leadership and the coalition. a sort of entryism.
but then i think i'd be joining it to help it save itself, and i'm not sure i want to do that.
Mark Pack at 19:40
Welcome to the party David. Great to have you aboard even if there are one or two thongs we disagree on.
I see Mark Pack in leopard skin.
Honestly, I don't necesarily find myself always agreeing with your analysis, but here I think you're an 'early adopter' 'ahead of the curve' and all that jazz. Good article.
Welcome to the party, David, although the comments above may caution you that your decision to join was perhaps more audacious than you first imagined!
I do love it when some self-satisfied, well-off finger-wagger comes along and tells us all to 'grow up'.
Really? The rest of us are sitting down here with utility and other domestic bills through the roof but hey, we need to grow up; hundreds of thousands are due to lose their jobs in the coming 24 months but y`know, we need to grow up! Local services, the kind used almost exclusively by those on low incomes, are being slashed or dispensed with, yet it appears that a spot of growing up is in order! The disabled are facing existences even more miserable and confined than before but, ye know what, they need to grow up! All this and more while bonuses in the financial sector climb into the stratosphere from where we hear the smugly insistent cry - 'Oh, do grow up!'
You're correct in everything you say- but what's the point in joining?
I'm not being facetious here, what difference does it make if you're a member or not?
Very good question.
My answer is simple: an active act like joining, and explaining here the reason for joining, would send a signal that they (we?) are doing the right thing, especially when they (we?) are at the depths of unpopularity.
A mere passive nod, and a bare promise to vote, would send a weaker signal.
Welcome to the party David. Great to have you aboard even if there are one or two thongs we disagree on!
Not much liberal about massive unemployment, poverty and enslaving a country's economic fortunes to the whims of bond market profiteers, but hey, it's a free country.... Lol
@Mark Pack
No smiley face at the end of your message as well.
The comments by those who complain that we do not have a Lib Dem government do not seem to have realised that the Lib Dems came third. The reality was after the election either a coalition with the Tories was put in placed or we had a short term Conservative minority government.
A minority Conservative government would have gone for a quick general election called at a date entirely of their choosing. Only the Tories would be have the resources to fight a decent campaign and we would now have a majority Conservative government without the constraints of the Lib Dem partners.
Nick Clegg has got rid off the PM power to call a general election whenever he wants.
I may not like much of what the government are doing but it is probably the best that can be got out of the situation.
I just wish that the Lib Dems would stress that coalition governments policy is not Lib Dem policy but the compromise made with a much larger partner.
Someone should really get onto Wikipedia and challenge the description of the New Stateman as 'left-wing'.
Fair enough, David. It's a free country and I can see some logic in your analysis, even if I don't share it at all (it seems to be based on a rather reductive view of political action, if you ask me).
While you're a member, though, can we count on you (as an avowed liberal) to work to support those in your party who still understand that civil liberties and social equality are indivisible? Also, there's nothing remotely liberal or freedom-extending about the incursions of the corporate and private sectors into the provision of public services. On the contrary, the history of the neo-liberal economic project is one of limiting and closing down our ability to subject the wealthy and powerful to democratic scrutiny and accountability. Therefore, pressure on Clegg and co to stick to the party's 80% rejection of the NHS "reforms" is vital.
Good luck!
About time we had fixed term Parliaments and removed the perogative of the PM to choose when to go to the country. They should be man and woman enough to face the wrath of the country whenever it comes.
The libdems have made a real mess of coalition politics by buying into inappropriate ideas about cabinet government. I hope it's OK to link to my blog - I've expanded on his here: http://peterenglish.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-we-learn-coalition-politics...
Do you get 30 pieces of silver when you join the Lib Dems.
Actually, thinking about your position further, and the huge list of things on which you don't actually agree with the LibDems, what you should have done was found your own Liberal party. Joining a failing party seems a craven compromise in contrast to such an act of political bravery. ;-p
Quelle surprise a wealthy man,living in the centre of power, plying a trade the maintains the position of the rich and powerful, a trade that is overwhelmingly a Conservative constituency, a trade whose framework is to give preference to the rights of the individual over the many, decides to join a group whose aims are so wooly that they can ce all things to all men... Is this what passes for principle in legal circles?
You also state that '..politics is about power..', by which logic, you could have joined the Conservatives, but plumped for the LibDems - I don't understand why you didn't just join the Conservatives..?
This seems to be an exercise in vanity, but taking account of some of the comments above, after fifty years of deliberately not joining a political party, I may just go and join Ed Milliband's party so that I can help flush away the NuLabour NeoCon, NeoLiberal contamination.
I have no vanity, so I will leave no name, nor will I publish an article as to why I think I am so clever.
What is a Liberal Democrats? I do hope they aren't all like Mr Allen Green. Writing articles supporting women's repression. What's next Allen, an article defending honor killings perhaps!!
I think you'll find it very difficult to get thrown out. Lib Dems tend to deal quite well with heterodox opinions and I'm sure you agree with the "fundamentals" quoted by Chris Jenkinson.
You are, of course, giving up the nice warm partisanship of swatantra, in favour of universalism.
You're giving up the nice, simple, positions of:
"Cuuuuts! Tooooorrrries!" or "Private enterprise! Sell it off! Bring back hanging!"
in favour of having to think about things.
Good luck!
I applaud David Allen Green for not being politically apathetic and thus firmly stating his commitment to joining the Liberal Democrat Party and demonstrating that he has done so.
I may not agree with his political views, but I do respect them and in doing so, I cannot attack him for doing as he wishes in his support of a legitimate Political Party.
I believe that if you didn't actually vote in the last General Election then you should hold your tongue in attacking anyone else's political views or the current Government as you allowed the co-alition situation to occur by doing nothing.
So you joined the Lib Dems because they're not as bad as the Tories?
Well done mate. sigh
The problem, as is more than demonstrated on this comment thread, is that people don't even know what liberalism is. Apparantly the state enforcing egalitarianism is now 'liberal' if you believed some of the commentators. And this is the problem with the 'Lib Dems'; the majority of them are social democrats rather than liberals.
Well there always has to be one I suppose as for the Conservatives being more Liberal, sorry I'm trying not to break into spontaneous laughter. Oh but wait a mo, if you mean the Lib Dems and Clegg are more Tory than the Tories, well yes you have a point.
Tony Lloyd
12 April 2011 at 21:09
I think you'll find it very difficult to get thrown out. Lib Dems tend to deal quite well with heterodox opinions and I'm sure you agree with the "fundamentals" quoted by Chris Jenkinson
of course they do, the Liberal will agree with anyone and anything, it is putting them into practice they have a problem with, it is call getting of the fence and entering the real world!
Those of us who've been around a bit know that LibDemmery is Toryism in disguise- as the left of LDs has now discovered. Labour may not have been much, but it was better than the present lunacy, and it now looks as though it might now become something better, and more democratic.
This is no surprise, Mr Green, and, with luck, the left will continue to discover who its real friends are.
Well all I'd say is that anyone who agrees with the preamble to our constitution will find it nigh impossible to be thrown out:
The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which noone shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. We champion the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals, we acknowledge and respect their right to freedom of conscience and their right to develop their talents to the full. We aim to disperse power, to foster diversity and to nurture creativity. We believe that the role of the state is to enable all citizens to attain these ideals, to contribute fully to their communities and to take part in the decisions which affect their lives.
I think you are mistaken David. However it is nice to find a member of the commentariat with the courage of their convictions. Given the state of things at the moment, I actually understand why you have done this, but it would have been a better move to join Labour and help remake the next governing party.
Not sure I agree that the Coalition is being any more liberal than the Tories would actually be on their own. Do you have any hard evidence to back this up?
Let's face it, the centralisation of the education system and removal of local control of schools is a particularly illiberal policy. The national Curric is going to be even more preseciptive especially now this so-called English Baccalauriate is going to force schools into a much narrower curric. Local people are losing control of their local schools to large multinational organisations without a vote.
And the coalition antics over Free schools is farcical; there is no opennness or transparency at all about funding, governance, selection or anything. It is harder to find out anything about any free school than to find out about the inner workings of the armed forces...
As my old mum used to say about odd people....there's always one.
The NS seems to have found him.
I was thinking of joining after I heard about Vince Cable stopping drugs for lethal injections being sent to the USA. Quiet things like that are making a big differnece.
Fair enough, nobody's getting hurt.
Thats coalition politics for you. We are now in an era of coaltion politics. But to join the Lib Dems makes no(n)sense, and only encourages them. In reality they don't have a common purpose or common bond, whereas Labour is for social justice and fairness. A Lib Dem in Yeovil hs nothing in common with one in Southwark. You would be better off with Labour. Labour are in fact already a coalition of diverse groups but with a common purpose.
Well it's one way for Mr Nobby Nobody to get a bit of attention.How else is an article by him gonna get so many responses.
Meanwhile back in the real world of important politics..........
I don't believe one should join a political party in response to any one (or even several) policies, but because one believes that that party's values and ideology coincide with one's own.
The Lib Dems values and ideology have become increasingly ill-defined at best. And I left the Lib Dems in the late 1990s because they refused to work on a vision for Manchester, where I live, because the process would be 'too divisive' and would give Labour something to attack. Instead, they planned to make up scare stories around the Commonwealth Games to win cheap votes.
David obviously believes he has spotted a liberal ideology, but going through Montgomerie's concession-o-meter, I can't spot any common theme that might suggest a set of core values.
The best that can be said for the Lib Dems is that they have moderated the Tory government a little; hardly a reason to join the club.
"Last week I did the oddest thing - I joined the Liberal Democrats."
Bet you were pissed again.
@Swatantra - Well I don't know about Yeovil vs Southwark, but this Lib Dem from Bristol has found common philosophical ground with Lib Dems from Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Truro and Norwich (and that's just the places I can think of from the top of my head)...
Liberals themselves have never, ever been agreed on the questions of how individual liberty, economic development, social solidarity and egalitarianism relate. An even elementary grasp (which clearly you don't possess) of Liberalism's intellectual history would inform you of this. In future, please go to the trouble of informing yourself of the details, conflicts and nuances of a political tradition before presuming to proclaim on the understanding of others.
Of course the Lib Dems have a common aim. It's written on every membership card. Here it is:
The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which noone shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. We champion the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals, we acknowledge and respect their right to freedom of conscience and their right to develop their talents to the full. We aim to disperse power, to foster diversity and to nurture creativity. We believe that the role of the state is to enable all citizens to attain these ideals, to contribute fully to their communities and to take part in the decisions which affect their lives.
hmmm, your reasons for joining as explained make a great deal of sense, but they do leave the feeling that you've joined a protest group which has found itself in government, rather than a party offering an ideology for governing.
How liberal is S251 of the Health Bill which gives the Secretary of State for Health powers to require the NHS to disclose any confidential patient information he considers "necessary or expedient" to the NHS Information Centre?
Chris has it spot on, and every time I doubt my membership, I remember that the preamble (which Chris quoted earlier) could have been written for me.
Maybe a lib dem in Yeovil has a different way of putting this into practise than a Lib Dem in southwark, but thats the same with any party.
Some Labour members think 'social justice and fairness' should be implemented by taxing the rich more than the poor.
Gordon Brown, on the other hand, put 'social justice and fairness' into practise by abolishing the 10p tax band.
No, wait...
Welcome to the party David.
I hope you'll have a long and enjoyable time as a party member, because you've joined for a good reason, even if I disagree with quite a few of your points in the article.
Are you after a job? A peerage perhaps?
The coalition's regressive, anti-working class economic policies restrict people's freedom far more than any of the measures under discussion here.


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"The manufacturing sector grew at a faster rate in May, continuing its recent strong performance," commented Norbert Ore, chairman of the ISM's Business Survey Committee. "The rate of growth in new orders and production slowed slightly, but was offset by a significant increase in employment," which was up 4.1 percentage points, to a reading of 61.9 percent, up from 57.8 percent in April, said Ore.
Acting as a drag was a modest slowdown in the rate of growth for both production and new orders. The New Orders Index slipped 2.2 percent, to 62.8 percent after climbing to 65 percent the prior month. Production dipped a corresponding 2.2 percent to 64.8 percent, down from 67 percent the preceding month.
Comments from the nation's purchasing managers, said Ore, "indicate demand is strong in most industries, but they also express major concerns about rising materials prices and the cost of energy, in particular. A number of respondents mention adding permanent jobs, as well as adding temporary and seasonal workers. While there are mentions of allocation, extended lead times and low inventories, it appears that members are able to work through these issues at this time."
Manufacturers continue to fret about the price of raw materials, and especially now about the cost of gas and petroleum-based products. The ISM's Prices Index indicates manufacturers continued to pay higher prices in May, the 27th consecutive month of higher prices. But the index receded slightly in May to a level of 86 from April's 88.
May snapshot
Manufacturing benchmarks
Month-over-month percentage-point change
Purchasing Managers' Index | +0.4% |
New Orders | -2.2 |
Production | -2.2 |
Employment | +4.1 |
Inventories | +4.5 |
Customers' Inventories | -3.5 |
Prices Manufacturers Pay | -2.0 |
Order Backlogs | -2.5 |
Export Orders | -0.4 |
Imports | +1.3 |
Source: Institute for Supply Management |
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