The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG

This was published by us in 1989, as “Libertarian Alliance Pamphlet number 14″ - that takes you back, doesn’t it; we were young then, Thatcher was in power, Gorbachev obeyed every word she said, the Berlin Wall was about to come down, and all was sweetness and light!

“Bliss was it, in that very dawn, to be alive”.

Here as a pdf

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/lapam/lapam014.pdf

Here’s what it broadly contains:-

I Gerry Frost: What Good Is The State?

II Chris R. Tame: The Bankruptcy of Conservatism

III Gerry Frost: Libertarians Versus Liberty

IV Chris R. Tame: Libertarianism Versus Conservatism

V Chris R. Tame: Some Second Thoughts

Chris Tame and Gerry Frost debate the relevance of Libertarianism to practical conservative politics, or to anything at all. A good read.

It is especially relevant in the context of the London mayoral elections tomorrow. Whether or not you think that cities ought to have powerful “Mayors”, or whether the sorts of things they try to get their teeth into can be sorted out by free markets, everybody elegible to vote in London ought to read this stuff today.