THE LAST DITCH
Commenting on Madeleine Bunting’s sick Stalinist fantasy (linked article in the Guardian – where else?) of a "low consumption" society in which Government engages in "a massive propaganda exercise combined with a rationing system and a luxury tax", someone under the nom de plume "Tomahawk1" observes;
If only people in the real world were like the perfect ciphers who populate the dystopias of state socialism, Islamism and eco-fundamentalism.
Quite.
Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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