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rhyds · 27-01-2017, 13:13

The difference between conservatives, socialists and traditional libertarians is as follows:

Socialists: What you do with your body and with other folk is your business, but what you do with your money is government business

Conservatives: What your do with your money is your own business, but what you do with your body and with other folk is government business

Libertarians: What you do, who you do it with and what you spend on is none of the government's business

There's been a lack of a truly Libertarian political party in the UK for many years. The Liberals used to be one, but since the SDP Alliance and the coming of the Lib Dems they've slipped more towards the Socialist/Social Democrat idea of tax and spend and green "initiatives" (aka banning things).

The biggest problem is that no politician has the guts to campaign on a manifesto of what they won't be doing, and no politician ever wants to reduce the state's (read: politicians') power over daily life. The only PM who came close to it was Thatcher, who privatised the big state run monopolies, but continued with authoritarian social policies regarding sex education and so on.

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rhyds Inactive Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: North Wales Services: Plusnet Phone/BB, Freesat, VM Business BB (Cable) Posts: 821	Re: Corbyn's kerfuffle The difference between conservatives, socialists and traditional libertarians is as follows: Socialists: What you do with your body and with other folk is your business, but what you do with your money is government business Conservatives: What your do with your money is your own business, but what you do with your body and with other folk is government business Libertarians: What you do, who you do it with and what you spend on is none of the government's business There's been a lack of a truly Libertarian political party in the UK for many years. The Liberals used to be one, but since the SDP Alliance and the coming of the Lib Dems they've slipped more towards the Socialist/Social Democrat idea of tax and spend and green "initiatives" (aka banning things). The biggest problem is that no politician has the guts to campaign on a manifesto of what they won't be doing, and no politician ever wants to reduce the state's (read: politicians') power over daily life. The only PM who came close to it was Thatcher, who privatised the big state run monopolies, but continued with authoritarian social policies regarding sex education and so on.