Welcome to The Landed Underclass, the voice of the Banana Republic of Great Britain.
‘Limited and specific’ allows me to exclude from this welcome the following, in no particular order: politicians (with the honourable exception of the Libertarian Party of the UK, who don’t count); authoritarians; Neue Arbeit supporters; television enthusiasts; believers in the Fourth Reich (as I have every intention of calling the EU, rather in the hope that it will attract attention to my blog when I am prosecuted for saying it); State bureaucrats, quangocrats, apparatchiks, managerialists and vestie jobsworths; secret police (plain police are OK); financially embarrassed foreign aristocrats; bansturbators; mountebanks; charlatans; and mime artists (there is a good practical reason for this).
If all of this persuades you that I am a bitter, twisted, middle-aged, white, male libertarian, and you can deal with all of that without denouncing me to the commissars, then you are very truly welcome; on with the show.
Thought I’d better come and see where it all started.
You have a grand and ongoing blog now, as of 25th March 2009. You ought to be congratulated, and I for one wish you the best of success in the harder and harder years to come.
Thank you! Flattery will get you somewhere, though you will probably have to change trains.