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.
Smitty, you’re hardly uncultured. (Matter of fact, a little disinfectant may be in order.)
Happy Fourth!
Right – and thanks once again.
Smitty, you’re hardly uncultured. (Matter of fact, a little disinfectant may be in order.)
Happy Fourth!
Right – and thanks once again.
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!
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!
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