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Interesting Point From Across The Pond

Posted on | July 4, 2010 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Daniel Hannan, British MEP, pondering US independence:

Thomas Jefferson, whose bust stares at me as I write this blog, had wanted to include a touching phrase in the Declaration, but his fellow authors excised it: “We might have been a great and free people together”. Indeed. Everything I have done in politics has been an attempt to apply Jeffersonian principles to British political conditions. Decisions should be taken as closely as possible to those they affect, and decision-makers made accountable through the ballot box. Everything else – autonomous local councils, referendums, recall procedures, tax cuts, withdrawal from the EU, elected sheriffs, the Great Repeal Bill – follows from those two simple precepts.

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5 Responses to “Interesting Point From Across The Pond”

  1. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 5th, 2010 @ 3:08 am

    Smitty, you’re hardly uncultured. (Matter of fact, a little disinfectant may be in order.)

    Happy Fourth!

    Right – and thanks once again.

  2. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 4th, 2010 @ 11:08 pm

    Smitty, you’re hardly uncultured. (Matter of fact, a little disinfectant may be in order.)

    Happy Fourth!

    Right – and thanks once again.

  3. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 5th, 2010 @ 3:24 am

    pbspgt! Missed above – obviously posted in the wrong place. Heh – haven’t had a beer in days. There’s a fix for that…

    Thanks for the Hannan link. Cheers!

  4. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 4th, 2010 @ 11:24 pm

    pbspgt! Missed above – obviously posted in the wrong place. Heh – haven’t had a beer in days. There’s a fix for that…

    Thanks for the Hannan link. Cheers!

  5. Via Smitty: Daniel Hannan & Interesting Point From Across The Pond « Si Vis Pacem
    July 5th, 2010 @ 12:01 am

    […] Hannan & Interesting Point From Across The Pond 2010/07/05 by Ran / Si Vis Pacem Smitty has the link to Daniel Hannan’s blogpost. Thomas Jefferson, whose bust stares at me as I write this blog, had wanted to include a touching […]

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