Spectator cites Liberal Vision as the real deal
Reaffirming Mark Littlewood’s stance, that it’s David Cameron’s soft and shallow support that we should be targeting, Alex Massie over at the Spectator notes that a truly liberal party would be one worth voting for – truly classical liberal that is!!
Could you vote for the Liberal Democrats. Sometimes, you know, I wish I could. Then the Liberal Democrats come along to remind one how difficult it is to support them. But, in theory, could one vote for a truly liberal party? Of course one could. And would, if only one were so available. In Massie’s Better Ordered Political Landscape the Liberal Democrats would, roughly speaking, be the equivalent of Germany’s Free Democrats*.
It’s true that there are some liberals** in the Lib Dems – one thinks of the gang at Liberal Vision and other bloggers such as Charlotte Gore – but they’re a minority within their own minority.
**That is, of the classical variety.
I share your lament Alex, so let’s show them the light together – to which address should I send the membership form?
; )
September 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
I used to enjoy the Speccie, it was always my first choice when I had a long journey and needed something to read. If I didn’t agree with its politics, it was always challenging, well written, and a good read. But now, well, I was struggling to think of what has gone wrong with it, and I finally realised – it’s become so vulgar. Its politics are so trite and predictable, it’s become a vehicle for selling advertising aimed at the rich, with articles which please their taste rather than make you think.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Make Rothbard’s For a New Liberty the Lib Dem Manifesto and I’ll join the party.