tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post3095298323038795334..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Welcome Death of Liberal EnglandPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-82619478449489454562017-06-30T20:46:59.197+01:002017-06-30T20:46:59.197+01:00Ah bless, "asquith" citing the UTTERLY M...Ah bless, "asquith" citing the UTTERLY MYTHICAL "48"%.<br /><br />You do know that your about to be coronated new leader has said free movement will have to end,right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-26795437943283558122017-06-30T02:48:56.093+01:002017-06-30T02:48:56.093+01:00Shame that you treat Liberalism or Centrism as som...Shame that you treat Liberalism or Centrism as something to be vilified. You make some valid points and as a Lib Dem voter I'm struggling to see where we go next. But it's nothing to float over. Fight the real enemy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-16237461426657272482017-06-29T22:25:31.373+01:002017-06-29T22:25:31.373+01:00This is what the yoof voted for
https://www.thegua...This is what the yoof voted for<br />https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/29/jeremy-corbyn-sacks-three-frontbenchers-after-single-market-vote<br /><br />Comrade Corbyn has capitulated to far-right nationalism, we need a liberal opposition more than ever and the crypto-leavers in the Labour leadership have abandoned the 48%.<br /><br />asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-39686799757287409992017-06-29T08:24:33.309+01:002017-06-29T08:24:33.309+01:00Good read thanks
Good read thanks<br />Olwennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-80069097593679510432017-06-28T10:16:29.072+01:002017-06-28T10:16:29.072+01:00(Incidentally, I think using "liberal" a...(Incidentally, I think using "liberal" as an insult is something leftists should probably try and avoid wherever possible. We might find "centrist" a more suitable pejorative, if we're looking for one.)ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-12580279124832634362017-06-28T10:14:25.640+01:002017-06-28T10:14:25.640+01:00Re: Nick Cohen, it is curious to that he has taken...Re: Nick Cohen, it is curious to that he has taken to calling himself a liberal, because for around a decade following his 2002 epiphany, he used that term essentially as as insult.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64370594083484890722017-06-28T08:36:55.879+01:002017-06-28T08:36:55.879+01:00For anyone who has ever been in a trade union led ...For anyone who has ever been in a trade union led by a 'moderate', you always knew, during a dispute, which way the negotiations would end up: a return to work & a messy compromise, with the employer smiling like a Cheshire Cat. Liberals like to see themselves as two things: rational and democratic. It's worth reading the book 'The Metaphyical Club', which is a history of American Pragmatism. In the book John Dewey, (a leading figure and for many American democrats and Labour Party moderates a commanding intellectual) watches with great concern the battle between the strikers and the company during the great Pullman Strike (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike). He was convinced the bitter conflict between labour and capital could be resolved by better communications: both sides sitting down to rationally discuss the issues. Meanwhile, the strike is violently smashed by the State and leader of the Pullman strikers, Eugene Debs, is imprisoned. Dialectician1noreply@blogger.com