And so we enter the Long Dark Night of un-liberalism

David Davis

Once upon a time, there were members of the Libertarian Alliance who thought it would be possible, and that indeed the day would come, and soon, when we could capture the British Conservative Party. This was to be the way forward: getting libertarian ideas and policies into the normal high-level political discourse of a major modern state.

Therein, we thought, lay our best hope for confronting the pre-capitalist-barbarians, fascists, other lefties, Gramsco-Marxians, and all the other fellow-travelling worthless sub-human murderous trash which we knew even then was bent on infecting and corrupting our institutions, especially the schools and universities. We could make all these uncouth monsters irrelevant. But the damage to these institutions, and the traditions which they enshrined, has been done, and it is probably too late to fix and repair the loss of our culture’s and civilisation’s volume distribution in our population’s folk-memory.

Clearly, whatever opportunity to hijack a good major party may have ever existed, has been lost. Patrick over at the UK Libertarian Party puts it much better than I can: David Cameron not only can’t change anything much, but he also does not really want to.

If Gordon Brown and the Tories both carry on the way they are, Cameron will probably win a majority at the next election, whenever it may occur. But let’s not expect any miracles therafter.

Let’s preserve what can be saved, through the night, and survive, and perhaps even sometimes laugh, if allowed, when nobody is looking.

Enough said already

Sent from a friend.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr….they don’t do they cartoons like they used to!

David Davis

After yesterday:-

Libertarian Alliance 2008 Conference, London. Places still available!

Sean Gabb

As we are all busy trying to keep up with the depredations of Gordon Brown’s (or anyone else’s for that matter) government, this is Just a reminder about the Libertarian Alliance conference this
coming 25-26 October, at the National Liberal Club in London.

This will be perhaps the best event of its kind in many years. We have,
among others,

Aubrey de Grey on life extension,

Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the
Law, and

David Friedman on the future of liberty.

You can see the full brochure, and reserve your place, by going here:

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/conferences/conf08brochure.htm

On a separate matter, I notice that yesterday – the 30th September – was the
70th anniversary of the Munich Agreement. I think there is much to be
said for Neville Chamberlain.

You can read my thoughts on the matter here:

http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc099.htm There is even a blog-like facility here

for you to express your disagreement.

Oh, and I have added a random article button to my website. Go here, and
you can find any one of the hundreds of articles written by me during the
past few decades:

http://www.seangabb.co.uk/random.htm

Hit the back button in Internet Explorer, and you can get something else
and so on. Just like on the Libertarian Alliance website as you are all doubtless aware…

And the “dangerous Marxist twaddle award of the day” goes to….

The Gramsco-Eagletonian “student activist and welfare wing” of these people, who were spotted in the toilets by Obnoxio the Clown.

Some of this pretentious tripe just has to be quoted. Sorry:-

A row has broken out at the University of Manchester after its students’ union toilets were “de-gendered”.

Temporary signs have made the “ladies” simply “toilets”, while the “gents” have become “toilets with urinals”…

…..

……the student union said it was needed to tackle transphobia.

…..

Welfare officer Jennie Killip told the BBC: “If you were born female, still present quite feminine, but define as a man you should be able to go into the men’s toilets – if that’s how you define.

“You don’t necessarily have had to have gender reassignment surgery, but you could just define yourself as a man, feel very masculine in yourself, feel that in fact being a woman is not who you are.”

And what’s the place doing with “35,000” students anyway? I thought it was a University, not a small city. Mine had about 10,000 when I was up, and we thought that was big – alhough it was moderated somewhat by us being parcelled out to various august institutions for living and drinking and shagging socialising purposes.

Of course, a strictly libertarian stance might be taken that one can “feel that one is” [the buggers use "define as" : gosh what a two-edged sword the English Lanuage is] whichever sex one likes to be. Except that if you are a man but “define as” (I never heard that before! What lovely, lovely, priceless twaddle! ) a woman, you can’t be f****d: and I guess if you are a woman but you “define as” a woman, you’re about as much use to your “partner” [who I presume "defines as" a woman, and whom you can't f**k either] as a one-legged man at an arse-kicking-party.

Right: we’ve thrown smelly squashed tomatoes and bad eggs at the fascist lefties…now comes the philosophy bit:-

Problems would arise though when it comes to behaving in ways that have evolved largely by consent, such as what toilets one ought to go in. Segregated toilets (which is to say, in public spaces and places with public character like offices and factories etc, as opposed to family homes) are really a voluntary product of “Free Institutions”, and have probably always existed in some form.

Perhaps feminazi-toiletwatch is another assault-tactic on the existence of free institutions, and these  “trans” people (who ought to be receiving boisterous assistance and lots of free alcohol from their mates instead of being encouraged to parade their particular hangups) are merely a stalking-horse for the erasure of more of ordinary Western civilisation.

I wonder what the good burghers of Manchester make of it?

Come to think of it…..two “lesbians” wanting a pee:- which one goes into the Men’s, and how can we tell?