Former Tory protester calls for camp to close, regroup and come back stronger
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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Good interview - got your points across and made the interviewer come on your side deflecting his "your a nutcase" questions. Well done Robin - Brains over predicable
Mr Smith, just a quick question. Is your constituency MP John Redwood? I only ask because I'd be interested to know if you have ever had the chance to discuss the merits of LVT with him? It seems to me that if the cause of LVT is ever to gain any real traction in our political system, he is just the sort of Conservative thinker that needs to be persuaded. Why not invite him to one of your discussion groups? Just a thought. He he!
Anon: He is. I met him about 43 years ago in his parliamentary office with the Executive Chair of the Henry George Foundation to make it all abundantly clear.
He said:
"Yes I now about all this. If I proposed it to my constituents I would never get elected. Have you come here to waste my time?"
I thought, not a leader, not a Conservative, very much a conservative, not a thinker, but fair point.
So yes, I've tried that one. The answer was the same as it is with all across the political spectrum.
So its not the people we elect that are the issue. Its the electorate. Who do not seem to want freedom and justice!
Can you see the problem now?
Apols that was 3 years ago!
Umm, that's disappointing, but not unexpected. Definition of a politician?-someone who sees which way the crowd is travelling, then runs to the front and shouts "everyone follow me!"
True. The depressing thing is that this means the people are responsible in the end. Its no use blaming the politicians. Its "us" who are to blame due to this.
I've found this deepest of denials permeates all of society. The worst kind are "planet savers" who know it but deny even this! They ask the people to blame politicians when they should be asking the people to look inside themselves.
Ultimate power lies with the people in the end. If we choose not to use it by not voting for the best interests of all people, but for our own selfish selves, then so be it. Trouble is inevitable.
See Romans 13.
We are ALL self-interested, you, me, and everyone else.
That's the way it always has been, always will be, and cannot ever be anything else.
It is the 'Law of Nature'...as you like to call it.
What we need to achieve...is ENLIGHTENED SELF INTEREST...a state of being where we begin to see that our self-interest requires the well-being of others.
We then dedicate our lives to the welfare of others...as much as possible...precisely because...this will be in our own self interest.
What we need to be honest about, then, is what constitutes our personal self-interest.
I'm not convinced that 'St Paul'...as we like to call him...ever did that, so I don't rate him at all - despite all the fancy rhetoric.
I see him as someone hugely out of touch with himself. The opposite of what we need to aspire to.
Sorry!
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