Gerald Warner, in the Telegraph, remarks upon the ‘alternative’ to the National Socialist British Labour party offered by Macaroon and his merry minions.
If you imagine voting for any of the established parties at Westminster will achieve anything other than your further impoverishment, exploitation, oppression, and being treated with contempt by the fraudsters who despise your gullibility, you deserve everything that will subsequently happen to you. Vote Tory? In your dreams, Dave.
I wonder whether Mr. Warner, with whom in this context I would agree in every particular, might be interested in joining the LPUK. From his photo I would judge that he is too sensible a chap for single-issue pressure-groups such as UKIP, and it is quite clear that his overcoat is too tasteful, his tie too well-tied and his eyes far too far apart for him to be a plausible supporter of the BNP.
My belief is that ‘traditional Conservatives’ remain attached to the second socialist party (of 2½) solely out of sentiment, and the somewhat desperate view that anything, provided that it is electable and owns a rosette of roughly the appropriate hue, is better than nothing.
The Conservative party is as damned as the Labour party, and for exactly the same reasons. If anything is to change, we must elect a goverment that is not from the Clone Zone, and, having elected it, watch it very carefully indeed.
I am a clone; I am not alone. Every fibre of my flesh and bone is identical to the others’; everything I say is in the same tone as my test-tube brother’s voice. There is no choice between us; if you had ever seen us you’d rejoice in your uniqueness, and consider every weakness something special of your own.
[Hawkwind: Spirit of the Age]
I still consider myself a blue-rinse conservative, but I’m starting to think Messers Hannan and Carswell are the only free-market classical liberals left.
When I saw the front page of the Telegraph today, the last drop of my support for that party died. No-one can graft that hard and have any respect for the voter/taxpayer.
I found some wifi and joined LPUK.
Welcome aboard!
I’d consider myself a ‘conservative’, small ‘c’, in a number of respects, but I draw the line at a blue rinse. No, seriously.
I should also add that you can leave a comment at the bottom, I’m sure his email’s somewhere on the site, and that I don’t doubt a proper letter addressed to:
Gerald Warner,
The Daily Telegraph,
Victory House,
Meeting House Lane,
Chatham,
Kent
ME4 4TT
Do you suppose that we ought to try directly recruiting him? Suppose he’s already in something peculiar, like the Natural Law Party?
He’s a catholic. Better watch out.
Perhaps not the Natural Law Party, then.
LUC, have you submitted a claim for your moat to be cleared yet?
(Bet you 11p you have got one! there are more than you might think.
I found a [lost] [long lost] disused one a few miles from here, in what looks from the ground like a lost/deserted medieval village, a few days ago.
It shows up also slightly, very slightly, on Googleearth, but you don’t like Goodle i think.
There is no moat around the Villa Underclass, nor yet a gun-turret upon the flat part of the roof. The problem seems to be that the planning office were so lavishly, er, entertained by Tesco’s in connnection with the business about demolishing the centre of Chipping Bitsoff and replacing it with a huge supermarket that now they won’t get out of bed for less than a hundred grand.
It is the same story in the States, where basins of warm piss from the same boiler by ‘both’ parties are poured bi-annually out over the bowed heads of the genuflectant and, in the words of Squawbunion County farmer Judson Andersen, “The terminally God-damn DUMB!”
Speaking of ‘fraudsters’, there is unfolding in federal court the agonisng and repulsive senatorial contest here, in Minnesota, between Rape Ugly Con incumbent Norm Coleman The Dirty Bastard, and the Gimmecrat comedian Al Franken, The OTHER Dirty Bastard.
Both are “unvarnished sonsofbitches” and Coleman looks really peeved in news photos about the fight over 250 or so disputed absentee ballots…this has been dragging on for months, Coleman is reportedly bankrupt in several real estate deals and, no doubt, shitting himself to get back on that lovely US Senate health insurance.
These thieving gentry objectively are assholes, and that is not Mr Andersen speaking now. One really does think that all these cruds from the ‘English-Speaking Union’ if positively brought to book should be sentenced to some actual ‘community service’.
In downtown Iraq.
At night.
In their Y-fronts.
With the seats cut out and their arses painted blue….
(Ms Smith could be put to work in a bagnio in Karachi, and Mr Straw there in charge of lubricating the catamites, he likes foreign doings.)
Your estimate of the employability of these characters is a masterly example of good old-fashioned American optimism.
Would *you* hire them? Seriously?
The problem is that voting for anyone other than the Tories simply facilitates a Labour victory.
There are two choices: Labour or Tories. This isn’t going to change anytime in the foreseeable future. It is the nature of democracy that it is always about choosing the least worst.
What classical liberals must do is to infiltrate the Conservative party once more. Just as the IEA did for decades:
Read about the history of the iea
http://www.iea.org.uk/
This is what led to Thatcherism.
The problem is that Classical Liberals these days have too much faith in Democracy. Democracy does not work well, it never has. That is one of the main reasons why liberty is so important.
Read Jeffrey Friedman on Ignorance:
http://www.criticalreview.com/crf/jeffreyfriedman.html
You’ve made this point before. I have to say that I don’t really think that a Libertarian blog is the best place to recruit Conservative voters.