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…in condemning this caller to LBC radio as a Tory plant. That would be far less depressing than it being real as it would suggest there is some guttering flame of entrepreneurship, initiative and political killer instinct in what I had written off as the work shy, policy-thieving ranks of the Blair-imitating "Conservatives."

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    Andrew

    I’m afraid they’re probably just projecting, because it’s the sort of thing they’d have no problem doing.

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    Mark

    “Why should people work for low wages”
    “because you should… because other people do it… spluttering indignation…”
    I think this man asks an important question. Surely “because everyone does it” is the worst possible reason you can give for anything. And why should he have to get up early in the morning? That’s the kind of thing that killed Descartes.
    Someone going to the pub and playing pool with their friends is contributing more to society and the world than your average office worker.

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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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