Nov 13
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From The Editor’s Desk….....
A political despatch from the field.
This impassioned call to libertarian arms appeared in the Daily Telegraph, by the journalist, Stephen Robinson, who has headed that paper’s Free Country campaign of recent months .He advocates setting up a Free Country Party. Nice idea, given the dire state of the Tories. Of course, 140 years ago, such a party actually existed in the House of Commons. It was the Liberal Party, and led by William Gladstone, one of my few political heroes, compared with whom 99 percent of today’s politicians are mere boobies and place-seekers.
The very fact that the Telegraph, the house journal of the Tories, has carried an article plugging the idea of a new party, tells you how desperate is the plight of the formerly great party of Peel, Churchill and Thatcher.
Ian Bacchus
