The Acid Bath
In 1940 two men slipped into Britain using forged immigration papers to escape the totalitarian regimes of the both Stalin and Hitler
These were father and son, Samuel and Ralph (nee Adolphe) Miliband, Ralph was born in Brussels of Polish-Jewish émigré parents. Both his parents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, before his father, Samuel Miliband, joined the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War.He is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx.
Ralph went on to become a darling of the New Left, a sociology academic. Having fled totalitarianism in the East arriving in a still relatively Liberal Britain, Miliband Senior set about propounding a Socialism to reproduce in Britain what he had fled from in 1940. Today one of his bland off spring (it really does not matter which) will complete the Miliband family’s ingratitude to this country by presiding over a Labour party that has produced a Stasi state in the last thirteen years,wrecked the economy and produced an irresponsible dependent population. To cap it all launched the type of aggressive wars of occupation that Miliband senior fled from.
The Socialism that has influenced the Milliband clones is of a variety that is intellectual, high flown and theoretical. Its consequences of sink estates, poverty and wasted tattooed lives are of very little consequence to such ‘East European’ intellectualism. Intellectualism has only found root in Britain in the last sixty years of State Welfarism, because it allowed such ideologues to find financial support by finding ‘employment’ in ever growing State institutions and Quangos.
In Liberal Britain we once had learned academics who espoused the rigour of research in the arts and sciences, and embraced the liberal values of tolerance started in the age of Reason and Enlightenment.
Today will see the victory of Marxist Social Democratic Ideology over Tolerance and Reason, started when Liberal Britain gave refuge to another East European intellectual, Karl Marx.
This Labour Party election is almost North Korean in outlook, favoured sons of a political elite being anointed. That it is why it has been a boring and inconsequential ‘election’. The real power lies with the Bob Crowe’s of this world, the pay masters of the ‘Nouveau’ Left. They know that their overt hatchet faced class warrior rhetoric will not find favour with the people of this country, so they need the fresh faced Peter Pan’s of politics (achievable by never having worked outside of the cloisters of Whitehall) to be the ‘nice’ facade of the brutalism of Bureaucratic Socialism.
What of the Conservatives and their erstwhile allies the Social Democrats ? Rather than fight on the grounds of individual Liberty, Cameronism has swung behind the ‘Social Democratic Centre’. When Cameron was elected as Party Leader, the Conservatives were looking for somebody to ape Tony Blair, and they found him.
We now have a Prime Minister who would rather pander to a bloated State and Welfarism, than maintain our defence forces. Defence is the only valid reason for a State to exist. By Defence I mean the defence of our Home Islands not wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. These entanglements should be ended immediately. Bring the troops home, re-equip properly, pay the armed forces a living wage, and ensure that unlike the Wars of Wellington, The Crimea, First and Second World Wars the Servicemen whose lives have been wrecked and that of their dependants are paid a Military pension, that far outstrips that of a dole to sustain the dull, lager drinking fraternity.
The Acid Bath I refer to in the title is a political system that has very little legitimacy, it is a system of interlocking Whitehall elites. The Acid does not allow the Greens, UKIP, the far Right,the far left, Liberals, Libertarians, Nationalists a say in any National debate because we are denied a voice.
I am currently standing as Leader of the Libertarian Party. A party I hope to persuade to adopt a change to the Libertarian & Constitutional Party, to fight for not only Libertarian Policies but for Constitutional Reform and to introduce a Swiss Style Constitution where the State is subordinate to the Canton (County), the Canton subordinate to the Individual.
Only by draining the bath of the Acid that kills all political debate other than the elitism of State Milibandism will this country start to have some pride and direction. The only alternative is the continued growth of State Corporatism, with attendant repression and loss of freedom.
Andrew P Withers
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September 25, 2010 at 11:08 -
Hear Hear!
By the way, when is the Libertarian Party’s leadership election and how do I vote (assuming I have a vote)?
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September 25, 2010 at 11:27 -
Good luck Andrew.
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September 25, 2010 at 11:38 -
Greens don’t have a say in any national debate? Haven’t they F***ed up UK energy policy with renewables %, 80% reduction in CO2 by 2050, HST2. They achieved their worst by infiltration into the big three parties with considerable success.
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September 25, 2010 at 11:39 -
Andrew, you might like to provide some link to direct potential members to your website.
You might also like to consider that you are probably wasting your time until the problem of the bbc is sorted out. Nothing other than a left of centre liberalism will be presented as the norm as long as the bbc are in a position to dictate the agenda. IMHO the most realistic way forward is to continually e-mail examples of bbc bias to Tory MPs and hope that eventually they get off their backsides and address the issue. -
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September 25, 2010 at 13:56 -
Great polemic
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September 25, 2010 at 14:00 -
Sarbanes (& Andrew): well, I am a member, probably paid up, but the LPUK website shows as the latest “news” an item from the 2nd May!
Is there a new site instead?
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September 25, 2010 at 14:24 -
Andrew, I wish you luck.
Having discovered a certain Devil and his blog about a year ago, I find I’m being slowly convinced that the libertarian way is the only way if we ever want change we can *really* believe in (copyright President Bananalamadingdong, 2008)
I’m now seriously considering putting my money where my mouth is and becoming a member of a political party for the first time in my life. Assuming the Monster Raving Loonies don’t get there first, of course.
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September 25, 2010 at 14:48 -
Good luck Andrew!
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September 25, 2010 at 16:20 -
Great article and all so true, good luck.
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September 25, 2010 at 16:38 -
Good luck
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September 25, 2010 at 17:11 -
Well, the sons might be idiots, but Ralph Miliband had more in common with anarchism than Stalinism. So most of the innuendo in this piece is utter bunkum.
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September 25, 2010 at 17:32 -
Ralph Miliband was not a Stalinist having been critical of Stalin. However to say he was an Anarchist is a travesty. He was a Gramscian socialist, the type that drip feeds collectivisation through ‘culture’ and all the more corrosive for it.
His youngest son has now taken the leadership of Labour Party, failing to convince the membership or the MP’s but in thrall to the class warriors of the Trades Unions.
I still blame the parents
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September 25, 2010 at 17:37 -
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Our economy is slowly dying, your job, lifestyle are dominated by anxiety.
The economy is kept alive artificially.
No one is proposing a solution because no one has the slightest idea of why it is happening and many have vested interest in the present system.
However an objective observation of the phenomenon can help us understand it and provide us with an innovative solution.
Of course we can’t solve the problem with the tools that brought us there in the first place and we need a new ideology.
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– Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made?
– Well, remember that what an ideology is, is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to — to exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not. And what I’m saying to you is, yes, I found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is, but I’ve been very distressed by that fact.
– You found a flaw in the reality…(!!!???)
– Flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works, so to speak.
– In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working?
– That is — precisely. No, that’s precisely the reason I was shocked, because I had been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.
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In order to alleviate those economic woes wee need to create, as fast as possible, a new credit free currency that will solve the credit crunch and bring incremental jobs, consumption and investments to the present system.
An Innovative Credit Free, Free Market, Post Crash Economy
A Tract on Monetary ReformIt is urgent if we want to limit social, political and military chaos.
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Is the fulfilment of these ideas a visionary hope? Have they insufficient roots in the motives which govern the evolution of political society? Are the interests which they will thwart stronger and more obvious than those which they will serve?
I do not attempt an answer in this place. It would need a volume of a different character from this one to indicate even in outline the practical measures in which they might be gradually clothed. But if the ideas are correct — an hypothesis on which the author himself must necessarily base what he writes — it would be a mistake, I predict, to dispute their potency over a period of time. At the present moment people are unusually expectant of a more fundamental diagnosis; more particularly ready to receive it; eager to try it out, if it should be even plausible.
But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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An Innovative Credit Free, Free Market, Post Crash Economy
A Tract on Monetary Reform_______________________________
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September 25, 2010 at 19:00 -
Good Stuff Andrew but we should give Ed a change. Anybody who looks this much like Harry Potter must have a boy wizard’s chance of making a decent leader
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September 25, 2010 at 21:25 -
WTF?
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September 26, 2010 at 19:57 -
Sorry Hippy, did I confuse you? The blog post linked carries a piccy of Ed Milliband aged about 20 I’d guess, looking remarkably like Harry Potter.
Now Harry Potter is not a real boy wizard so what I’m saying in my quaint ex-puublic-schoolboy way is that Ed. M has not chance of being a real leader.
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September 26, 2010 at 08:41 -
Agreed – but IMO the role of the state should be limited to defence of the realm and equality under law. Everything else promotes direct state dependency or rent seeking.
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September 26, 2010 at 11:33 -
Decided to stop reading articles here. Some good ones recently, but I can’t support this crazy drivel. Move to Texas and start paying for your own health care, education and everything else if you think it’s such a wonderful idea. The best course is between the extremes, you make the Mail sound reasonable. I will not piss on poor people, which is what you advocate in all but name. I hate the dependency culture, but we need to move past it to somewhere where people can escape from it – just cutting them off at the knees is nasty, selfish and inhumane.
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September 26, 2010 at 12:06
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September 27, 2010 at 00:36 -
Andrew, why bother? Mind you, I am 59, so will spend the next twenty or thirty years, or maybe a lot less, observing the decline of a society I once revelled in. Do you know something? I have an awfully inhumane view of Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq first. Had a lot of shite with a capital F under that Hussein guy, but lots of ordinary citizens coping. Now they have a lot of shite with a capital F with very few ordinary citizens coping. What about Afganhistan. Yea, that Taliban lot are monsters. Are they going away? Do I care about women and children if they rule again? Well 1. they will rule again and 2. I care about inhumanity, but more about the inhumanity to my own kith and kin than those I am not involved with.
Does all that make sense? Does it matter if it does?
The 1970′s may have had Heath, Wilson and Thatcher, but OMG I was much happier.
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September 27, 2010 at 07:20
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