Regular readers will have gather that I’m not only in favour of the party having more women MPs, but I want to see it take positive action on the issue. What I do oppose however is positive discrimination where it is not warranted, and simplistic tokenism. What therefore am I to make of this: Mr… Continue reading Hughes4Tokenism?
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Smoking Ban Balls
A lot of nonsense has been written in the blogosphere about the smoking ban being “illiberal”. It isn’t. What it is is a perfect example of how liberalism doesn’t deal in absolutes. I make it a policy of distrusting anyone who suggests otherwise. For example, the smoking ban most definitely does pass Mill’s famous harm… Continue reading Smoking Ban Balls
Who?
As a former LDYS organiser, I think it is fair to say that I know pretty much every single “leading activist” within the Lib Dems between the ages of 26 and 35. One has to ask therefore, who is Graeme Smith? He was apparently the Lib Dem PPC for Loughborough last year, hardly the most… Continue reading Who?