This Country Needs More Yacht-fondling

Alex Massie

Sunday, 21st June 2009

There are a few things that could be said about this snippet from Mr d'Ancona's Sunday Telegraph column:

More to the point, they [the Broonocracy] believe – as an article of faith, of irreducible conviction – that the Cameroons are bad people whose wickedness expresses itself in the slashing of the state. One of the words Brown uses most often in private to describe the Tory leader is "libertarian": a word that conveys his belief that Cameron's "compassionate conservatism" is mere window-dressing, but also hints at a decadent strain of Tory libertinage, drug-taking and yacht-fondling.

1. Gordon Brown clearly has a very limited understanding of libertariansm.
2. If only Dave Cameron were a libertarian.
3. Yacht-fondling should be encouraged.

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Bob Jones

June 21st, 2009 4:30pm Report this comment

It says it all really, that Stalin McBroon thinks that 'libertarian' is an insult. No, Brown is an insult to Liberty!

Kevyn Bodman

June 21st, 2009 6:22pm Report this comment

'Libertarian' as an insult.
An interesting new concept for me.

And if Brown thinks Cameron is a libertarian then our PM, for all his higher education and years of political experience, is not an accomplished analyst of political thought.