On European Rule
The Liberal Democrat Party logoNot all posts are as heavy as this, but I was happy with my response to a comment so I have promoted it to a post: The totalitarian regime that has “subverted our freedoms” is the failed constitution we have in the UK which allows those powers to

Reason number 2
Throughout this blog I have described myself as a ‘liberal Conservative’. Now however, I have no need to describe my political ideology in couched terms — I was previously a ‘liberal Conservative’ and now I am just a liberal. I have always believed that where appropriate, the government should avoid interaction with peoples’ lives and I used to think the result would be a society of people who take responsibility for their actions and who genuinely work as hard as they can to improve their own life and that of those around them they care most deeply about. I have since grown-up, however, and I now realise that there’s often a back-s

Reason number 1
Constitutional and societal reform is required in the UK. This is an unsupported assertion that I hope I have covered to some extent in past posts and that I hope to polish in later posts. I have an imaginary UK and Europe in my mind that we could create given the public’s buy-in. In my opinion, the only party that is brave enough to make those changes and that is sufficiently free of the lobbyists is the Liberal Democrats. In fact, even individual parliamentary Conservatives who have supported some more radical constitutional reform in the past, have since shied away.

Liberal Democrat Councillor
Sincere apologies to those of you who are not able to read my comments on Facebook — I have been busy and then sick over the last few days hence the failure to update you all (following my last post). On Tuesday I joined the Liberal Democrats. I would love to go into detail but I’m not feeling up to it but I welcome your comments — maybe its better to discuss my reasons than for me to write a long essay (which I could do).

A new party
I have long found it interesting that I was so easily able to convince liberal people of my opinions. Unless they were the rare close-minded liberal, I was normally able to explain my point of view and come to an agreement. Equally interestingly, I often had trouble relating to so-called Conservatives who it seemed were entrenched in their opinion and were irreconcilably wrong. I have slowly come to realise, of course, that there’s often no right or wrong answer (clichés like that sound so much less trite if you believe the underlying sentiment). If I’m totally honest, I sometimes wondered whether those Conservatives who did not agree with me were just a little