Well it looks like as Leader of the Libertarian Party it falls to me to give a rousing missive on the prospects for 2011.
Sorry folks, all am going to be able to offer you is one of 'blood sweat aand tears' variety.
To be a Libertarian in 2009/2010 was easy because with the Brown Terror in place, it was clear who the bad guys were. The Labour Party believe that a big State is a force for good. Whereas most Libertarians believe and know that it is not. Fabianism is legitimised theft of the future. Two unborn generations are going to be saddled with the fallout from Gordon Brown. Yet the nation still did not give the Conservatives the mandate they wanted, only the social democrats and eighty seats stand between us and a continuation of the overt Fabian rule of New Improved Hardline Labour.
Oldham and Saddleworth will revert to type and will return to being a Labour fiefdom. That is why calling an election over the Christmas break was beyond stupid other than to keep the BNP in check.
The Conservatives are promising great things, and believe they have stopped the economic rot. With Business liquidity at a low ebb and the State sector still growing, these promises do not represent a real philosophical change in the relation of the individual vis a vis the State.
The Libertarian Party is therefore going to contract before it starts to expand again. I can live with that, as the active membership of the party are young and committed, time is with us. However It is clear that anybody holding Libertarian views is not going to be flavour of the month with Fabians who advocate violence and civil disobediance in defence of the State.
This morning I read the following-
You cannot count on the Courts to protect you from the whim of the bureaucrats in Russia.
This was in relation to Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrested in 2003, now sentenced again for a further fourteen years.
We are still fortunate that the Courts will still offer some protection to the individual against the bureaucrats, but how much longer will this continue. Therefore it is the duty of the Libertarian Party to expose the Executive remorselessly. Politics is not just about fighting elections in a loaded two party system, politics is about a battle of ideas with your friends and neighbours as allies.
Our current politics is again dividing into a Court Party (Fabian,pro EU, elitist and centralising)and a Country Party ( Individualist, anti EU and devolving), therefore the Libertarian Party needs to forge alliances with anybody who shares our outlook that a centralising State needs to be curbed.
Be open, be courageous, value our hard won liberties.
I look forward to meeting you all at some stage in 2011.
Regards Andrew
6 comments:
Great post :D
random questions..
Who would you say are the ideal allies for the Libertarian party?
Whereabouts are you planning to run in the upcoming elections? any of the devolved governments?
Very best wishes for you, your family and the Libertarian Party for 2011.
I hope your party grows and grows until we finally get the freedom we deserve.
Meanwhile, I'll be causing a ruckus somewhere. You do the big stuff and I'll do the small stuff. We'll meet up at some point.
Be well,
CR.
Happy New Year Andrew, and to all the brethren and sisterhood of liberty.
Happy New Year Andrew. Although there are areas where we can improve, I don't think the Libertarian Party had a bad year in 2010 - for the first time we fielded four candidates at once, which isn't bad for a small party. As we fight more elections, we'll start to gather more support and eventually we'll start to get our own elected councillors and - in time - MPs. So let's put in a good effort this year and build on what we've already achieved.
Individual freedom and individual responsibility.
May people come to (re?) understand liberty and where they are surely going if they don't value it.
All success to the Libertarian Party in the year ahead, and at this time that liberty seems to be giving way to cozy coercive consensus.
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