For the politically correct left, free speech is a zero sum game, for some people to find their voice, others must be silenced.
UKIP is, in both form and function a conventional political party
“Croney corporatism is not the free market. Cosy cartel politics is not democracy. Change is coming.”
Mark Reckless, the UKIP candidate in Rochester, is nothing like as popular as Douglas Carswell is in Clacton.
Demagogic attacks by UKIP and the SNP on the Conservatives and Labour are inspired by an unacknowledged and unrealistic egalitarianism.
Away from the playgrounds of the prosperous, “tattoo-parlour Britain” is very much today’s Britain
Churchill, Mosley, Powell, Prentice, Owen, Berkeley, Taverne…There are the awkward men of principle. Those whose parties have changed radically. And the lost souls.
Only the points of order raised against John Bercow by three Tory MPs struck a partisan note.
“I agree with a huge amount of things the Conservative Party stands for. And its activists and most of its MPs believe in the things I believe in.”
Prisons are meant to be places of punishment – and if you count enforced, soul-destroying idleness as a punishment – then they are fulfilling this function