At Last, Recognition!

Looking at the logs I find a visitor from this site. Well, OK, wonderful, Tim Hicks links to me, very nice indeed. (Good blog too.) What has me grinning is that he appears to be the first person to describe my political and economic stance correctly (at least in my mind). Liberal. Look at the right side of his site and you’ll see:

Liberals
What You Can Get Away With

Yes, exactly! An old fashioned Manchester Liberal, as uncomfortable with Labour and the Lib Dems economic Statism as I am with the Tories social conservatism. Actually, from the same roots (Cobden et al) as such papers as The Guardian, although I seem to have stayed truer to the original ideals than they have. I’m pretty sure the Adam Smith Institute would be happy with the appellation "Liberal" too, as long as it were clarified in the same manner.

3 responses

  1. It’s interesting how in America everyone tries to distance themselves from the word “liberal” and in Britain everyone tries to claim it!

  2. Pleased to have brought on a grin.
    Not sure I agree with Ken though. I fear that ‘liberal’ – especially when used with adjectives like ‘woolly’ – is not something enough people want to be tarred with over here either.
    Mark Oaten came to the conclusion that he had to make his liberalism ‘tough’ to get any sort of credibility from the population at large.
    Either that, or it, apparently, implies ‘crypto-Thatcherism’.

  3. I think it depends what it’s associated with. If it’s associated with crime, it tends to be viewed in a negative manner. But other than that, I think it is generally seen as a positive word.

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