August 2010
3 posts
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical...”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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July 2010
6 posts
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New Evangelicals
There is no problem with people having faith. In this nation with an established church church especially. However, in recent times evangelicals in the UK have been seen as similar to that of the pentecostal church in the US, with some negative consequences especially in right wing circles. As seen clearly at the end of Emily Nomates piece on a similar subject.
The church has long had a role on...
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“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the...”
– William Pitt the Younger
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To Cut Or Not To Cut?
Cuts. Or the C-word of politics. For some unbeknown reason, the mention of the word sends shivers down the media and the publics backs.But is the reason due to scaremongering and an emphasis on now and not tomorrow.
Labour have lived up to their reputation as staunch Keynsianists. Repeatedly spurting out the dogma of continual investment causes economic grow especially in the public sector. The...
“I’m not a republican because I grew up rich. I’m a republican...”
– Mike Huckabee
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Rascist tory?
I once had a woodwork teacher named Mr pinder. He was black, I say this just to ephasise my point. He supported labour. He claimed the conservatives to instatutionally rascist, and claimed the tories and the BNP are 1 and the same.
He had an argument, and I must grant him that. His argument has that due to Enoch Powell, means the Tories are rascist, siting Blake “1 dead child is sad, 2 is a...
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Liberty
The other day, I woke up to a certain Mr Humphreysfinishing an interview with labour leadership candidate, Diane Abbott. What I seemed to be hearing took me by suprise, her claims that nationalising railways is “not a left wing policy, it’s just common sense”. She then preceded to say “somehow we became right of the Tories on civil liberties” to which I laughed at.
I...
May 2010
1 post
Reform
The UK’s general electorate is consistently barraged by the left with consistent calls for electoral reform and that of the houses of parliament. Now we as a country hear these pleas and many are convinced, while only having heard the one side off the argument. Harriet Harman says “we will be an effective opposition”, and they already have been having caught the public’s...