Never mind UKIP.
And libertarianism is now one of those things to which people subscribe in extreme youth.
Then they grow up. Into the warm, consoling arms of public provision.
Having in any case voted Labour, if at all, the whole time.
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"into the warm consoling arms of public provision".
ReplyDeleteYou're simply not a conservative.
Reminds me of the Levellers (perfectly sound) justification for not extending the franchise to charity dependents or servants.
They said they feared that anyone who was wholly reliant on someone else for all their money, would just vote as their masters wished.
True conservatives there.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have" indeed.
Just as Pat Buchanan predicted that, in America, the growth of a vast financially-dependent Latino, black and single-mother demographic means permanent Democratic Government. And an ever-expanding state.
Enjoy oblivion.
ReplyDeleteConservatives have been enjoying oblivion for the last 50 years.
ReplyDeleteWhat's new?
"Enjoy oblivion" indeed-as Peter Hitchens said on The Big Questions, conservatism is dead and buried here.
ReplyDeleteWell, he is an advocate of renationalising the railways, the utilities and the water companies, and within that of reopening the pits.
ReplyDeleteHe is also in favour of trade protection, of scrapping Trident, of keeping out of wars, and of proper local government, including council housing.
In five years' time, that will be called "the centre ground".