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Continue reading →: The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation profiles the Taxpayers’ Alliance
Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | The campaign group: Taxpayers’ Alliance. The Taxpayers’ Alliance, like the UK Libertarian Party, is an institution that should have existed for centuries. It is unbelievable that British taxpayers are so passive, so docile that, until recently, they never established a group to represent their…
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Continue reading →: Britblog roundup 159
Link: Suz Blog: Britblog roundup 159. The latest Britblog Roundup is over at Suz Blog
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Continue reading →: So, Members of Parliament, are we a democracy or not?
Link: MPs face EU referendum pressure after poll – Telegraph. The British public is usually so woolly-minded that I doubt it would be 88% in favour of the sun continuing to shine. Rarely has a test of public opinion produced such a dramatic result. We clearly want the government to…
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Continue reading →: And the winner is…
Thanks to all who voted in my poll. It’s good of you to take an interest. The result is not as clear as in the Presidential elections in Russia, but we have a winner and although I didn’t vote for it myself, on reflection, I agree with your choice. I…
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Continue reading →: Abolish Income Tax
Link: The UK Libertarian Party – Income Tax. Britain’s newest political party has made its first policy announcement and it’s a corker. Follow the link to read all about it.
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Continue reading →: Hypocritical fools
Link: Government backs down over plastic bags | Politics | guardian.co.uk. You have to laugh at the hypocrisy and idiocy of our rulers. What Mrs Paine and I don’t understand is why it’s better for retailers to charge for plastic bags than to provide paper ones, like those wicked un-Green…
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Continue reading →: The polls close on Sunday at noon
This (click on graph to enlarge) is the current state of play on my car naming poll. My thanks to all readers who have voted. Follow this link to do so if you haven’t voted yet. I will publish the results (and announce my decision) on Sunday afternoon. If you…
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Continue reading →: Useful Idiots
Link: UK Parliament – Early Day Motions By Details. Everyone who signed this early day motion is unfit to be a member of a free parliament. Everyone who voted for these wretches is unfit to be a citizen of a free country. Other bloggers are calling for them to be…
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Continue reading →: Association Of Rocket Mavericks
Link: Association Of Rocket Mavericks. The presenter here is Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist who brought us hotmail.com. I have to agree with the quote from Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, on the Mavericks website. "In terms of sheer coolness, few things beat rocketry." What Freud would have made…
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Continue reading →: Please remind me what was “new” about New Labour.
Please read the items here, here and here and then let me know. h/t Tim Worstall for the Finkelstein piece, which I had missed
THE LAST DITCH
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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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