D J Webb
I’ve just watched Sean Gabb’s excellent speech at http://www.libertarian.co.uk/?q=node/265
I agree fully with his comments about England in 1981, when I was 12.
Even without a full libertarian polity, going back to the way things were in 1981 would be a great advance. Thatcherism was so much better than the warmed-up Blairism we have now.
- no council tax (the rates were applied then – only paid by those who benefited from land prices)
- very few controls on speech then: the Black ‘n’ White Minstrels and Benny Hill were on the TV. The constant “offence hunt” had not established itself in the culture then
- moral panics had not become the norm: no trawling through possible sexual offences 50 years previously
- policemen seemed more honest and less aggressive to the public then
- no environmental panic
- hardly any CCTV cameras
We clearly didn’t know we were born!
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