tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post7033859272557435538..comments2024-03-18T15:52:46.631+00:00Comments on Liberal England: David Cameron's reversion to type will help Lib DemsJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-7443957397635508962008-08-13T06:46:00.000+01:002008-08-13T06:46:00.000+01:00Didn't I read that its an offence to be near a pro...Didn't I read that its an offence to be near a prohibited place, even if you don't know you are? Recently I went past the Norton camp on a bus, and there are no signs telling you not to stop. Indeed, as in the report in the WSFP, there is a bus stop there, and I could have hiked that way from Taunton to, say, Bishops Lydeard. Also, in London I recently walked along a road where right next to the quite narrow footpath is a building whose walls are festooned with notices saying that it is a prohibited place (I passed within a foot of at least one notice), yet numerous people were walking along that road and regularly do so.<BR/>WSFP has a long history of excellent journalism, including the story of Norman whatsit's dog, and more personally that after drafting a story about my father's death the reporter phoned me and read over his copy to me for my approval.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-74248465226348017002008-08-12T23:29:00.000+01:002008-08-12T23:29:00.000+01:00No surprise to see the Tories reverting to type, b...No surprise to see the Tories reverting to type, but I'm not sure I share your enthusiasm for that 2006 speech. <BR/><BR/>It may gladden the heart of the upper-band taxpayer with a nagging consumerist guilt, but that "General Well Being" nonsense is dangerous.<BR/><BR/>Never mind the fact that, given the choice between keeping their own money and having it taken from them so that the Government can buy them "wellbeing", most people would rather try to pursue happiness in their own way. <BR/><BR/>The real problem is that "GWB" is utterly immeasurable and so spares a future Cameron government the need to demonstrate success against any definable measure.Liberal Polemichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05002372579024659424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-7141037500513459672008-08-12T23:15:00.000+01:002008-08-12T23:15:00.000+01:00Jon: it's gone a bit further now.Jon: <A HREF="http://community.livejournal.com/theyorkshergob/120936.html" REL="nofollow">it's gone a bit further now</A>.Jennie Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893281560181289667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-55518132260435007842008-08-12T23:09:00.000+01:002008-08-12T23:09:00.000+01:00I'm not sure whether the attached story I've spott...I'm not sure whether the attached <A HREF="http://www.west-somerset-today.co.uk/today/options/news/newsdetail.cfm?id=59192" REL="nofollow">story</A> I've spotted in the West Somerset Free Press has gone any further.<BR/><BR/>A fairly horrific example of where the surveillance state could take us. Dragged from his bed an handcuffed at 2am in the morning!It was a good thing the man did not have a heart condition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-70480619065339252682008-08-12T23:01:00.000+01:002008-08-12T23:01:00.000+01:00Nobody is going to see it though, are they? The pr...Nobody is going to see it though, are they? The press are being ridiculously gentle with the Tories.Jennie Rigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893281560181289667noreply@blogger.com