http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2005/08/20/my-dream-of-england/ English, Rationalist and Liberal Conservative Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2005/08/20/my-dream-of-england/#comment-779 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:49:54 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2005/08/20/my-dream-of-england/#comment-779 [...] I’ve covered the political compass previously on this blog so I won’t go into it in too much detail here. But it did trigger the following thoughts that I’ll share with you: The Libdems are left and libertarian and the Tories are right and increasingly libertarian, as you said. However the Lib Dems have a nasty tendency of trying to be all things to all people. [...] […] I’ve covered the political compass previously on this blog so I won’t go into it in too much detail here. But it did trigger the following thoughts that I’ll share with you: The Libdems are left and libertarian and the Tories are right and increasingly libertarian, as you said. However the Lib Dems have a nasty tendency of trying to be all things to all people. […]

]]> http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2005/08/20/my-dream-of-england/#comment-86 Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:28:22 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2005/08/20/my-dream-of-england/#comment-86 [...] I have previously commented on this irrelevance. For some reason governments tend to impose on the people more and more as they’re in power longer. Thatcher banned ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools (I continue to contend that you cannot ‘promote’ a sexuality so while the law shouldn’t have had any affect is clearly did and gave the wrong impression that somehow homosexuals could not or should not be part of society), banned films from adult consumption and imposed the poll tax against the majority opinion. Blair is banning people from criticising religions and, even worse, his political party (Walter Wolfgang). [...] […] I have previously commented on this irrelevance. For some reason governments tend to impose on the people more and more as they’re in power longer. Thatcher banned ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools (I continue to contend that you cannot ‘promote’ a sexuality so while the law shouldn’t have had any affect is clearly did and gave the wrong impression that somehow homosexuals could not or should not be part of society), banned films from adult consumption and imposed the poll tax against the majority opinion. Blair is banning people from criticising religions and, even worse, his political party (Walter Wolfgang). […]

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