Meet the Libertarians

Meet the Libertarians
Post Date October 15, 2018
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Andrew Coventry is one of our recent defectors from the SNP. He outlines his journey to the Libertarians.

 

I recently joined the Scottish Libertarian Party having left the SNP after 34 years. I will not lie this was not an easy thing for me to do. As the song says I had given the best years of my life to a party with which I had become increasingly disillusioned. It wasn’t only the relentless drift to the left or the blind allegiance to the E.U. although …

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Liberty Under Threat

Post Date September 29, 2018
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A speaking event will be taking place at Stirling University campus on Weds 17th October at 19:00 hrs featuring Liam Harkness our treasurer. Liam is an accomplished public speaker with a passion for Liberty.

The other guest speaker will be Andrew Withers Chairman of the Libertarian Party UK. The topic for discussion will be Liberty Under Threat and will include a Q&A session afterwards.

Please try to make it along and support the event organised by Stirling Uni Libertarian Society.

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NHS. Not the Messiah, Just a Mess.

NHS. Not the Messiah, Just a Mess.
Post Date July 13, 2018
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The NHS is a False Prophet

 

“Woe unto you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.”

– Luke 6:26

 

Our National Health Service just turned 70! According to a recent article in The Guardian by Polly Toynbee, The NHS is our religion in the UK and that’s why the conservative government can’t destroy it. Of course, the Conservative government have never actually tried to destroy the NHS. They haven’t even reduced the amount spent on the NHS. They haven’t …

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CommonWeal: Forget about the consequences of your actions

CommonWeal: Forget about the consequences of your actions
Post Date February 21, 2018
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Public authorities would be allowed to seize land under the “Public Land Value Capture” proposal suggested by the think tank Common Weal. In short, public authorities should have the legal means to purchase land at the existing “use value” rather than at the anticipated future value once planning permission is granted (known as ‘hope value’).

Public authorities would borrow against the future uplift (upswing) in land value from the granting of planning permission to develop the site. This borrowed sum could then be used to fund …

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year
Post Date January 07, 2018
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I for one am glad the festive period is over. Office parties starring  teetering hordes of amateur alcoholics, everything going up in price and silly songs featuring diminutive prepubescent percussionists that go “pa rum pa pump um.” (I searched the gospels for this anti social noise nuisance but he seems to be oddly absent from all four.) As you can probably gather. I’m not a fan. Except of course for the capitalistfest that was our own Libertarian Christmas party. Nothing less than a triumph of …

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100 Years on: Remembering the Millions who suffered under Socialism

100 Years on: Remembering the Millions who suffered under Socialism
Post Date October 25, 2017
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There are two places only where socialism will work: in heaven, where it is not needed, and in hell where they already have it. – Winston Churchill

 

It is a recurring theme amongst socialists to argue that, if we only adopt the right system, a wonderful utopia awaits us. Indeed, the word “Utopia” owes its origin to Thomas More’s book of the same name about a mythical island where there is no private property and everyone takes what he needs. It is therefore an extremely appropriate …

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The worst of government poor planning: An economic argument against rent controls

The worst of government poor planning: An economic argument against rent controls
Post Date September 28, 2017
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“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”i

Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement that Labour would seek to implement rent controls, were it to get into power, is not a new idea. It is, nevertheless, a terrible idea; both for those it seeks to help and for the wider population, as I will prove in this article.

High rent is a signal to the market to provide more housing to let and capping …

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Victimhood & Individualism

Victimhood & Individualism
Post Date September 18, 2017
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The Social Justice Left’s worrying obsession with propping up their own victimhood narratives seems at best an attempt to grab the little social currency left for them.

In the most recent rendition of identity politics, which the Left has all but mastered, a new victim-status hierarchy has emerged from the depths of Tumblr and bled into mainstream culture. The appropriately named ‘Oppression Olympics’, which was termed by those outside this community, perfectly encapsulates the cultural Marxism that these groups champion. This hierarchy places those at the …

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The tough side of standing for free speech

The tough side of standing for free speech
Post Date September 01, 2017
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The Nazi chant of ‘blood and soil’ was heard throughout the night as far-right groups marched through Charlottesville, Virginia. On the night before the ‘Unite the Right’ rally, a pre-rally gathering was held on the University of Virginia campus grounds. Images of the large crowd, mostly male, entirely white, wielding torches and marching in unison, echo back to an unforgettable history, one of National Socialist marches and KKK lynch mobs. Such movements, infamous for their visceral race-based symbolism, have become permanently ingrained in modern consciousness. …

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Understanding the virtue of thrift: A response to Joyce McMillan

Understanding the virtue of thrift: A response to Joyce McMillan
Post Date June 07, 2017
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In Response to Joyce McMillan’s article “Debunking the Tory myth of the magic money tree”, first published in the Scotsman on 02/06/17.

 

Understanding the virtue of thrift: A response to Joyce McMillan

“If socialists understood economics, they would not be socialists.”
– Nobel prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek.

 

Writing in Friday’s (02/06/17) Scotsman, Joyce McMillan asserts that any fiscal constraint by government (so-called “austerity”) is unnecessary, claiming that it has unleashed:

“…a litany of meanness and misery firmly based on the assumption that there is a finite amount of money in …

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