I may not be Simon Hughes’s greatest fan, but I thought him more sensible than this:
“The Labour Party has betrayed, sadly, what I thought were its libertarian principles”
- Simon Hughes, Question Time, BBC1, Thursday 8th February 2007
Umm… in what parallel universe does Labour have libertarian principles? Some individuals may have them (although I suspect they are now few and far between) but from the very outset Labour was a collectivist party, founded to represent the interests of the Trade Unions, largely influenced by the socialism of the Fabians and other groups. This is the party which pursued the nationalisation of the British economy and has now embarked on an attempt to nationalise the British people.
At no point in its history has Labour been libertarian, it is not in its nature.
