2.49pm: Q: Are the Lib Dems still committed to abolishing the Department for Business?
The most appalling moments in "1984" come when the State has already read Winston Smith's mind and is committed to abolishing his interiority.
Since May 2007, a Labour/Plaid Cymru coalition government has been implementing an explicitly green-left programme of government entitled One Wales, which is committed to abolishing the internal market in the health service as well as reducing the country's carbon emissions by 3% per year.
Ukip is pledging to exempt charity shops and foodbanks from waste charges, although it also commits to abolishing the "Big Society programme" and the National Citizen Service.
Labour is committed to abolishing the "cruel" bedroom tax.
Whatever farm ministers imply in public statements, most EU governments are committed to abolishing them, France included.
During the debate, Mr. Romney said that "our nominee has to be someone who isn't committed to abolishing Social Security, but who is committed to saving Social Security".
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, warned during a debate last week that the Republican Party should nominate someone "who isn't committed to abolishing Social Security, but who is committed to saving Social Security".
Some Democratic senators and liberal advocacy groups have portrayed the 64-year-old trial judge as hostile to civil rights plaintiffs and someone so committed to abolishing abortions that he should not be elevated to an appeals court.
