Brighton Libertarians

"I think it would be very hard for us to fight a war successfully today. Just as it did during the 1930s, the Treasury wants to save money by cutting the armed forces, while our politicians bicker about our relationship with Europe and what to do about illegal immigrants turning up on our doorstep but do nothing.
These, however, are problems for the present generation.
We knew the values for which we were fighting; democracy, free speech, the rule of law, and equality before the law."

Flt Lt Colin S. Bell
DFC BEM AE FR AeS FRICS IRRV (Hons)

Colin Bell is now over 100 years of age, he flew Mosquitos in 608 Pathfinder Squadron in WW2. He knew what he was fighting against. The evils of National Socialism.

He had served with Poles who had lost their homes and their country. He was determined that this would not happen to his country.

Mark his words well, you are the present generation

Vote Dan Clarke Libertarian

Getting the economy going is as simple as ABC:

A. Entrepreneurship drives economic growth by contributing to GDP through job creation and tax revenue. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant portion of employment (Before the "pandemic", they accounted for 55% of jobs in the UK) and GDP in developed economies. They need to be allowed to do that without being taxed out of existence.

B. Entrepreneurship serves as a vital pathway for wealth generation and poverty alleviation, including minorities, women, and youth, by fostering an inclusive economic environment. It enhances social welfare by creating community wealth, providing dignified employment, and addressing unmet market needs through diverse consumer choices.

C. Entrepreneurial firms should be able to compete with large corporations by providing a better service, thereby enhancing overall industry rivalry and efficiency. Recent history has showed an economic shift towards centralisation, particularly post-“pandemic”. Corporations have often benefited from increasing regulations, creating an imbalanced economic system.

In short, let entrepreneurs have the freedom to do what they do best.

Vote Dan Clarke – Libertarian Party

These are the nine Peelian Police Principles that the Libertarian Party want reinstated

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Please note that failure to investigate r**e gangs, handcuffing and arresting a dying young man after he was accused of racism by his murderer,arresting people for free speech and upsetting words are not amongst the nine.

The Libertarian Party calls for the reinstatement of an elected Shire Reeve ( Sheriff ) to take command of police forces that fall way short of the nine principles.

Vote Dan Clarke Libertarian Party

Democracy, what Democracy?

Yesterday we were treated to the news that over one million 18 - 24 year olds were classed as Not in Education, Employment or Training or NEETS. The Milburn Report is the most damming indictment of the failure of Government Intervention , deprive a viable future for young people, the future of the country.

This has been caused by the minimum wage of between £8 and £12.71 which has killed the prospect of them getting a job. Why would an employer take the risk of taking on anybody who had no skills? This coupled with the hike in Employers NI is a Tax on jobs.

Billions have been spent on this demographic to no avail.

Labour's much vaunted 50% of school leavers of going to University to do pointless degrees like knitting through the medium of dance, was just pointing to a life time of debt through Student Loans.

This Age group deserves a better chance. Abolishing the Minimum Wage is a start, when the country is screaming out for doctors, vets, nurses, engineers and skilled plumbers, carpenters etc.

Robbing other countries of their skilled people is an obscenity, as is taxing jobs.

Companies and individuals should be incentivised to take on young people not taxed.

State intervention has disrupted this former route to life chances. The Libertarian Party will campaign for the tax system to be abolished for all under 24 year olds and a flat rate tax of 10% thereafter.

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Accountability,

The Libertarian Party is committed to reinstate the offence of misconduct in public office for all Public Office holders. Impeachment is still on the Statute Book, though treated as obsolete.

Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against public official for misconduct. Impeachment tends to be confined to ministerial officials as the unique nature of their positions may place ministers beyond the reach of the law to prosecute, or their misconduct is not codified into law as an offense except through the unique expectations of their high office. Both "peers and commoners" have been subject to the process, however.

The recent 'scandals' from the MP's expenses onwards show that those seeking high public office see themselves as untouchable. This has undermined public confidence in the political process.

Once those willing to turn out and vote falls below 50% political legitimacy ends.

The Libertarian Party believes that root and branch reform of the political process is now essential. Impeachment must be reinstated to hold the corrupt and incompetent to account.

Vote Dan Clarke, Libertarian Party for .

The Libertarian Party are standing in Makerfield to give voters an alternative to the arrogance of king-making by the Labour Party, and to give a clear alternative to the two nationalist parties whose leaders are dramatically at daggers drawn.

The U.K. is facing an existential crisis of de-industrialisation on which its wealth and prestige was built.

The Libertarian Party offers a low-tax, small-state option to the Socialist v Nationalist narrative. Put simply, if you work hard you get to keep the rewards of your effort, risk and labour.

The size of the State and supporting Quangos must be cut by 50 % in the first year. Argentina has done this successfully and New Zealand is following.

Virtually every penny raised through income tax goes on Welfare and the entitled.

The Labour Government has presided over a massive hike in taxation in just two years. This must stop.

We believe in the entrepreneurial power of the people and that power should be devolved to the people, not residing in the centralisation of Parliament who have little interest in wealth creation, just wealth distribution to gain favour at the ballot box.

Vote Dan Clarke for Makerfield

Nationalism is not the answer.

REFORM/RESTORE: “But I want to live in the England I fondly remember”, even though rose-tinted glasses have been used extensively. How far should we go back?

Should we go back to the 1970s? Older readers would remember TV shows like “Love Thy Neighbour”, when immigrants were few. They would remember hunting for candles in the dark as the power cut out. They would remember Labour’s three day week as industry downscaled production to save power. They would remember the “Winter of Discontent” when rubbish piled up in the streets, uncollected and the dead went unburied. Surely not that England? At least we had decent music.

Should we go back to the 1980s? It was a decade that split the country. Conservative Margaret Thatcher was like Marmite to the masses – a harbinger of doom to the TUC, yet a beacon of hope for entrepreneurs. Her legacy includes economic liberalisation, privatisation, and weakening of the trade unions, but also the poll tax, deindustrialisation, and growing social inequality. Not that England? The music was still passable.

Should we go to the 1990s? 1993 saw the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Conservative John Major was so wet and pro-EU, he should have been a Lib Dem. The “Common Market” as it was known, became the European Union. It laid the foundation for the Euro as the EU's single currency, established EU citizenship, enhanced the powers of the European Parliament, and introduced the convergence criteria that countries must meet to join the eurozone. Imagine wanting a government for your government. I’d assume most nationalists wouldn’t want to go there. Music? At least the old bands were still going!

So really, we come down to the fact that people are unhappy whoever lives here and whichever government is in power. The truth is that Freedom makes people happy, with less tax, less regulation and a willingness to engage with a world where developing travel is making it a smaller place.

The UK does have issues:

A complicated deal with the EU was not needed, All we required was withdrawal from the EU and leave it up to them whether we got free trade or not. As we are net importers, the EU stood to lose more, but we had weak politicians.

Immigration must slow. We have a housing crisis. The Welfare State needs to be limited to people already here legally. Finding out that there are no free homes and free money upon arrival removes the incentive for getting in a small boat. Yet if someone wants to invest in the country, or has a job lined up, they should be welcomed.

For the multinational corporations who are leeching wealth from the UK, then paying tax elsewhere, slashing regulations will allow small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to compete once more. The Libertarian Party is having ongoing discussions on how to even up and reduce taxation, which will encourage more corporations to pay in to the UK and increase the tax take. The Libertarian Party DOES understand the Laffer Curve.

Insular nationalism is not the answer. Looking at Reform policies, there are several mentions of nationalisation. Nationalism + Socialism = ?

Once again, the real answer is free trade - only that brings wealth to both parties.

Martin Day - Mercia Coordinator.

A look ahead at the options for the Makerfield By-election.
Socialism is not the answer.

LABOUR/GREEN/LIBDEM: “But I want everyone to enjoy the benefits of the 5th richest country in the world” Plus, I just want to live amongst kind, decent people. The colour of their skin, their nationality, religion or the language they speak is none of my business. Is that too much to ask?

No, it's the 5th biggest GDP in the world. Riches have long been sold to the highest bidder. Since when did we judge a business on the size of its sales rather than the bottom line - the profitability? Billionaires are getting richer every time the government overspends to provide more Foreign Aid. Who do you think it borrows from? So Labour is enabling what they see as the problem.

I'm also in agreement that decent people are the ones I want. The ones that contribute to a society when they are able. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Statistics from the 2021 census clearly show that among certain demographics, this is not happening. Language matters, because without it, joining society is not possible.

For me, as a libertarian, I'd have open borders, but they are incompatible with a Welfare state that now exceeds both income tax and levels of benefits that exceed third world wages.

Oh, and for anyone who says we need immigration because the NHS wouldn't survive. The NHS simply MUST train its own staff. Nursing bursaries must be restored. Importing medical staff from the third world is depriving citizens in developing countries of their right to Health. This contravenes one of the United Nations 17 sustainable goals. Ghana has a 41% shortage of nurses yet loses 4,000 per annum to emigration. Facts.

I'm not sure democracy can ever provide the right answers. The analogy of two wolves and one sheep voting on who to eat for dinner will always hold true.

The answer is trade - only that brings wealth to both parties.

Tomorrow - a look at RESTORE/REFORM

Martin Day - Mercia Co-ordinator