tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post454953451238594780..comments2023-08-11T09:56:34.039+01:00Comments on timrollpickering: Conservatives and the free marketTim Roll-Pickeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-2865838539719518422007-12-02T17:45:00.000+00:002007-12-02T17:45:00.000+00:00I'm not sure that the issue of which of two Victor...I'm not sure that the issue of which of two Victorian liberal parties Hardie thought the most liberal has much relevance today.<BR/><BR/>I also seem to remember from A level history that the Taff Vale judgement came under the Tories watch and nothing was done about it until the Liberal party won the 1906 election.The Provisional BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13189227952094384914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-17473117183077625402007-11-29T12:00:00.000+00:002007-11-29T12:00:00.000+00:00Gosh. that's what I just said!Gosh. that's what I just said!Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-31243591510226792782007-11-29T08:50:00.000+00:002007-11-29T08:50:00.000+00:00The Tories lost the 1945 election...The Tories lost the 1945 election...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-67989662798059481382007-11-28T18:19:00.000+00:002007-11-28T18:19:00.000+00:00The cases are not comparible - Mandelson and Thorp...The cases are not comparible - Mandelson and Thorpe were destroyed because of their personal dealings. Eden screwed up his foreign polic, but in many ways he was the leading figure in rebuilding the party after the 1945 election defeat.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-47590387983456656832007-11-28T16:42:00.000+00:002007-11-28T16:42:00.000+00:00LOL Anthony Eden...well we all know what happened ...LOL Anthony Eden...well we all know what happened to him. Are you going to quote Jeremy Thorpe when speaking in favour of the Liberals next? Perhaps Peter Mandleson as the voice of integrity in Socialism?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-58827505564505761682007-11-27T19:02:00.000+00:002007-11-27T19:02:00.000+00:00But there is a difference between the then emergin...But there is a difference between the then emerging One Nation Toryism of the Butskell variety, which I respect, and that of the Thatcherite variety which Denis Dealey once described as "the politics of Alf Garnett and the economics of Arthur Daley"Paul Burginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06718135185726733792noreply@blogger.com