The Liberals Sir: It is amazing how much space and
ink and ingenuity has been devoted these fifty years to writing that the Liberal Party is not worth writing about. Glad you are in the swim. I'm only wondering, sir, just why all those clever people who go on and on about the Liberals being finished, while their support has if anything been increasing. imagine that some of us go on voting Liberal ? To get into Parliament ? One can imagine better ways, Or to get something done? It is the least obvious way of doing that, or rather pretending to do that. Or are we just a lot of fools? Our achievements outside party politics do not precisely bear that out.
Now we are getting there. The fact is we vote Liberal because we don't like pressure groups. We don't like them grimacing with the unacceptable face of capitalism or screeching in the strident verbiage of the TUC. We don't like them financing parties with shareholders' money but without shareholders' consent. Or financing their careers with union members' subscriptions without union members' consent. In fact, sir, we are just wondering in the words that Labour used to sing before they went somewhere over the border down MoscoW way:
When wilt thou save the People, Oh God of Mercy, when The People, Lord, the People Not Thrones and Powers but Men. George Edinger Reform Club, Pall Mall, London SW1
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