There are a few things that could be said about this snippet from Mr d’Ancona’s Sunday Telegraph column:
1. Gordon Brown clearly has a very limited understanding of libertariansm.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.
2. If only Dave Cameron were a libertarian.
3. Yacht-fondling should be encouraged.
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