Chris R. Tame, “If I were Prime Minister” 1996 from Sean Gabb on Vimeo.
This is a Channel Four documentary made in 1996 that asks Chris R. Tame, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, what he would do if he became Prime Minister. This was easily the most entertaining and controversial episode in the series.
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The Civil Servant and the Drugs Social Worker could easily have been (verbally) destroyed by Dr Tame, but whoever made this program must have thought showing this not in the viewers’ best interests.
This interview was in the last year or so of the John “we have spent more than Labour promised to spend” Major government (government spending exploding on education, health, welfare – but defence, of course, massively cut). The government led by John Major also greatly increased regulations and handed over vastly more powers to the E.U. – with the opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties denouncing the government led by John Major as still not spending enough – and not handing over even more powers to the European Union.
Dr Chris Tame is undismayed – he is still, in 1996, fighting the good fight. Arguing for the cause of liberty as if Gladstone was Prime Minister and he, Chris Tame, was addressing a meeting of the league for the defence of Liberty and Property, or the Personal Rights Association (both dominated by Conservatives in the late 19th century – thus showing how out of touch Gladstone was with the “New Liberalism” represented by politicians such as Harcourt and political philosophers such as T.H. Green).
Pity Chris never on Question Time.