I have crossposted this message from here and would urge people to do the same. More to the point, I’d urge them to carry out the action - we only have until Thursday! Dear friend, Today I had intended to write to you to encourage you to take part in the Convention on Modern Liberty, of
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QuaequamBlog on 18th Jan 2009 (via theliberati.net)
This. The solution of course, as we so often say, is better people. But to be able to get some, we have to have some liberty. Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, Liberty, morality, MPs, rules, scumbags, socialism, troughing
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LibertarianAlliance on 15th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
David Davis Guido is a hit. Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, House of Commons, Liberty, MPs, rules, scumbags, socialism, socialists
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LibertarianAlliance on 9th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." Woodrow Wilson
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LookingForAVoice on 4th Oct 2008 (via lookingforavoice.blogspot.com)
Some years ago I harangued a meeting on the threat to liberty, and found myself sharing a platform with John Wadham, then the director of Liberty (formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties). I teased him by saying that he...
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PeterHitchens on 7th Apr 2009 (via hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk)
Go here. They’ll probably all have to go, except for about three. What is to become of us? Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, food, MPs, Restaurant Reviews, scams, scumbags liberty, Taxation
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LibertarianAlliance on 25th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
It has been a little over a week now since the government backed down on exempting MPs expenses from the Freedom of Information Act, following a sparkling example of good online campaigning from MySociety and friends. James Graham, in the first instalment of the Carnival of Modern Liberty (can carnivals have instalments? Or is it a
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 26th Jan 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Another day, another crosspost. I will just add a link to this story about the Government attempting to stop the Welsh Assembly from publishing its own expenses - even if I had time to blog about this I couldn’t as words fail me. Much as I support the Convention on Modern Liberty, I am very
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QuaequamBlog on 20th Jan 2009 (via theliberati.net)
David Davis There you go: I’ve said it now. So now what? Frank Field’s site. Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, Liberty, MPs, scumbags, trough-pigging, Troughalypse Now
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LibertarianAlliance on 16th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
Going going gone. This is what we thought about an hour ago. In the Duty-Chimpanzee Type Writers’ Hut. Prayers answered. My oh my, how things happen quickly these days. Posted in Liberty Tagged: expenses, Liberty, Michael Martin, money, MPs, s cumbags, Speaker
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LibertarianAlliance on 19th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)
David Davis Here. Posted in Liberty Tagged: Ann Widdicombe, Cats, expenses, grass cutting, grassing up, Liberty, Man Widdcombe, Michale Martin, MPs, Parliament, scumbags, the Speaker
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LibertarianAlliance on 18th May 2009 (via libertarianalliance.wordpress.com)