Liberal Larceny

It is easy to forget that it was the liberal party at the turn of the 20th century that ushered in the collectivist state we know today,prefiguring the welfare state and its punitive tax base and redistributive follies.The father of the welfare state was Lloyd George and the Gladstone reform acts were the pathway along the tortuous road to welfare serfdom.

So it was no surprise given its ideological provenance that Clegg announced yesterday part of the Liberal manifesto for gov involving taxation of the wealthy as this is par for the course for liberals who think human beings exist soley to service the rapacious state in its egalitarian socialist ends of larceny and wealth redistribution.This despite the liberal's ceaseless efforts to position themselves to the right of Labour, as the moderate point between the latter and the tories.

They love to play good cop to the tories bad cop but it is all window dressing as the Liberals are the most illiberal when it comes to seeing human beings as the material means to socialist ends of big government.