Comments on: After Labour, What Next?

By: Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:02:25 +0000

did=will not

By: Roger Thornhill

Roger Thornhill — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:01:40 +0000

Excellent post and many excellent comments augmenting the points.

Dave is a salesman and when he gets his 5 year, non negotiable (for us, not for him) contract, that will be the end of the soap.

There is a window for Libertarianism – many people realise they have been “had” by the false promises of the Left-”liberal” child catchers. Lots of tasty free sweets and all the cake you can eat…but then once inside the cage is eventually revealed.

The population are almost all in and the door is being closed by the Fabians (the traitors within) and their co-conspirators, the EU (the traitors without).

In removing New Labour we did not get rid of the Childcatcher, we just saw the monopoly concession pass from one operator to another.

By: Niklas Smith

Niklas Smith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:17:56 +0000

@Tom James: Fantastically interesting articles. Thank you for the links!

That said, for global externalities like CO2 emissions Coase’s approach would still imply that a (Pigouvian) tax on carbon is the best way of dealing with the problem.

By: Tom James

Tom James — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:38:58 +0000

Ah: you want Ronald Coase and the Problem of Social Cost. It isn't that we need fewer planning restrictions, we need a better allocation of property rights. More details here.

By: Liberal Eye

Liberal Eye — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:44:36 +0000

As Charlie says – there are neighbours. That creates externalities which, on average, cut both ways so it pays to be a good neighbour. Utopian dreams can be indulged on a desert island but must be compromised on a crowded one.

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:30:26 +0000

I think the scale of mismanangement under Labour has left us with a wonderful opportunity. Cameron won’t be able to deliver the type of changes needed due to the reactionary make-up of his parliamentary party. With Labour (hopefully) wiped out an opposing vision will be needed. Classical liberalism/libetarianism would appeal to a wide range of people if it was voiced in a coherent way. 40 years of creeping-socialism followed by another 30 years of centralisng authoritarianism has left the country a much worse place. It’s time for us to take up the challenge.

By: Ian B

Ian B — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:33:56 +0000

Oh, the Tories have no intention of reversing the authoritarian trajectory or leading us into the broad sunlit uplands of freedom or any of that crap. Possibly the greatest fallacy of voters is “well, the other side can’t be any worse than what we already have. I vote for CHANGE!”

By: Constantly Furious

Constantly Furious — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:58:39 +0000

[sings] “Thiiiiiinnngs can only ged bedder…”

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:15:25 +0000

I was pessimistic about Obama, I’m positively suicidal about the Tories

By: Constantly Furious

Constantly Furious — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:33:12 +0000

You may be being a little too pessimistic about the next Government.

It’s taken 12 years for the Authoritarian Left to slowly push us into a corner and force us onto our knees, inch by grudgingly-given inch.

Give the next guys more than a couple of weeks to undo that, won’t you..