The Landed Underclass on libertarian bloggers:
Sitting around in the sizeable leather armchairs of our vitual but agreeable gentlemens’ club, harrumphing in a tweedy, monocled Greek chorus at what one of our number has just found in the paper under which he was so recently asleep, is a damn good bonding-ritual but it’s unlikely to deliver regime-change.
Oh dear. He’s right, though, isn’t he?
Sort of. However the ‘virtual gentleman’s club’ has yielded two important outcomes.
a: the establishment of the LPUK and
b: a lot of us who now know we’re not alone and not
going (any more) mental.
It’s a start.
There may be a touch of truth in it, but only insofar as almost all blogging is at some point mere self-indulgence…:)
This may be where being a “party” blogger whilst pushing libertarian ideals, however unlibertarian our party, may be making inroads. I came 14th in Dale’s list of Lib Dems, despite what I always think are long tedious and sometime turgid postings on esoteric ideas for creating more freedom, so I don’t seem to be be scaring *all* the Lib Dem horses.
When I get my new server up and running I’ve bought a new domain f5c (for “Freedom’s Fifth Columnists”) on which I would like to create a group blog made up largely of people who share libertarian/classical liberal/anarchist ideals but who are currently inside other parties where we can perhaps work the “Overton Window” inside those parties, pseudonymously if necessary.
It’s nice to know that we have friends. Some of whom are in high places. As more different people’s ‘triggers’ get pulled the more we’ll have people to rely on.
The fight is not over.