Voting TaKtiX

Update: changed a few misleading titles, nothing deleted, for honesty’s sake.

So, James and Joe ask a very important question and raise some valid concerns; what is the campaign for. By defining it as purely against Labour, James is correct when he says:

If there is to be a “coalition of the willing” on civil liberties issues, then let it be for real civil liberties, not a handful that Conservatives have deemed electorally useful to cherry-pick. Let it concentrate on individual candidates and politicians, tactically opposing any candidate who doesn’t sign up to X, Y, Z rather than letting individuals off the hook and supporting “best fit” political parties who subsequently will be under no pressure whatsoever to carry out their reforms.

We have to be careful to be in favour of something, not just against something. We need to be campaigning for liberty and reform, not just against the current government, we need to be a positive force, not a negative force.
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With extra link to here goodness. Good stuff, as always, and some new blogs to add to the ever-growing blogroll…

I think I’ve found an exception to Godwin’s Law, Chase me ladies, I’m in the cavalry:

But once you accept his premises –lebensraum, the supremacy of the Ayran race, etc.- his actions did have a kind of loony logic. He meant well. Blair, on the other hand, is working single-mindedly for the triumph of Evil. Only when you have grasped this do his policies make any sense.

Brilliant, just read the whole post. I was going to turn in, but it showed up in the feed and I couldn’t stop laughing.

Two brief ones before I turn in, The Longrider has succumbed to the lure of his own domain name, and is moving his blog; the old link remains on the blogroll for a bit, as he hasn’t figured out how to import the archives. If anyone knows how, I’m sure he’d appreciate the assist, I certainly would as I’m thinking of switching to wordpress myself at some point.

Second, Unity comments to say the site is almost up and running; keep an eye on Talk Politics tomorrow. I shall be out for the day, I’ll put up the shiny logo he’s done when the link is live.