Beauty An The Beastly Homo.
by Ed Butt
May 2009

Having Your Cake And Eating It- the Nanny State Way
by Ian R Thorpe
2007-01-17

2009-17-19 Lib(dem)erate Your Civil Liberties

As Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg spoke on the need to curb insane levels of public spending we wonder has mainstream media indifference dealt the third party a bad hand again. Clegg and the Liberal Democrats finance team led by Vince Cable have been warning of the crazy ascent of the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement since the financial collapse last year. Suddenly, in the face of increasingly catastrophic financial statistics, the major party leaders are talking sensibly about cuts. Well in the case of Gordon Brown what he is saying stretches the definition of sensible but at least he has acknowledged there is a serious problem instead of burbling about green shoots of recovery as he has for the past few months. Once again the Liberal Democrats have led the way in understanding the problem if not perhaps the depth of it but nobody understands the depth of the shit we are in financially. Our economic situation will not stop deteriorating until we come to rest on the abyssal plain. Once again the hopelessly out of touch leaders of Conservative and Labour parties are jumping aboard after the bandwagon has started to roll and the third party are at risk of losing out again. There is one area where the Lib Dems can score though. Labour have identified themselves as a party of control freakery and social engineering. They have given us the surveillance society in which police have abandoned trying to control the streets in favour of lurking in high tech offices and sending out tickets for littering, minor parking offences and not picking up your dog's shit. They have given us zero tolerance on speed limits but can't be arsed chasing muggers, rapists, child abusers and murderers. If your home is broken into you need not expect help from the police but if you cooperate with the robbers and get beaten to a pulp, three days later PCSO Tiny Littlebottom will come round on his Raleigh Chopper to tell you about victim support counselling, but should you batter the burglar with the baseball bat you keep handy for such things Labour's Crown Prosecution Service will come down on you like a ton of bricks. Thieving scumbags have rights you know. Labour have banned smoking in the office, in pubs and all other public buildings and are on their way to banning it in the street, parks and anywhere. You can guarantee it will not be long before they are following the New York city council and trying to ban you from smoking in your own home. On top of that consider all the national databases Labour have commissioned to make it possible for the government to keep a paper trail of all your activities. It is only down to the sheer incompetence of the public sector that none of these actually work. Remember Labour's National ID Cards scam. It would make life easier, it would make society safer, they told you as they tried to justify making you pay for your own enslavement. They did not talk much about how the RFID chips in the cards could locate where you were to within six feet at any time. They didn't push that angle did they. They did not make a big deal of their plan to make it a crime to leave home without your card. They did not boast of their intention to turn the entire effing country into a replica of The Prisoner TV series. In ways small and big Labour have demolished our Liberties and withdrawn our rights. They was even talk of launching criminal prosecutions against people who refused the swine flu vaccine even though everyone knows the vaccine is useless and has serious, possibly fatal side effects in many cases. No Labour are Nazis, they might whimper about minorities being oppressed but they would oppress all of us. You migh be gay or black but the cameras would still watch you and the RFID system would still track you. When Labour talk about a fair society they mean everybody gets shat on equally except the Politically Correct Elite. The Tories are - well, the Tories. They still believe in forelock tugging and that social mobility means sending miscreants to Australia. When you ask Cameron or Boris or one of the Bullingdon Bully Boys about civil liberties and social justice they just stick their fingers in their ears and start singing Lloyd George Knew My Father. Forget rights and liberties under the Tories. The Liberal Democrats however are committed to liberty. They understand equality does not mean some are more equal than others and that to over compensate minorities for perceived injustices in the past can only lead to resentment. Nick Clegg is right to talk about economic policy but if he wants to attract the disgruntled working class Labour voter he can do no better that demonstrate that only the Liberal Democrats understand what personal freedom and equality of opportunity really mean.