The best government is that which governs least, and that which governs least is no government at all.
The Road to Serfdom in Five Minutes
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Now, we may not be at the end of a war in the conventional sense in which national planning was necessary to keep up the war effort, but have a look at this and see how many of the captions can still be applied to today's political establishment and direction. It's quite scary really:
Courtesy of revver.com after F A Hayek & Look magazine.
Is T Blair the "strong leader" brought in to enforce obedience to the plan whom they thought they would one day be able to dispense with I wonder?
Is there any evidence that the ability of "planners" (aka political leaders) to implement a plan has improved?
Is there not a feeling growing more and more that a propaganda (aka "spin") machine is controlling the agenda we are allowed to hear?
Related reading
Here are some stories that may be on related subjects, based on the tags used in this post:
- From here to Liberty
- Vince and George: both singing from the statist hymn-book
- ...and property is freedom!
- Forget it George and Davie, we need a Big Idea now, and this time it's social-ism
- Liberator: Ignorant, Conformist and Poverty of Vision
- The Third Sector, Fake Charities and Libertarianism
- Money secrecy: the last taboo?
- It's the end of the world as we know it...
- Dave's Dubious Davos Dialectic
- Private charity, voluntary co-operation or state welfare

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Name: Jock Coats
Age: 40s
Lives: Oxford, UK
Works: IT Support, Oxford Brookes University, where I am also a Governor of the University and a Warden in a hall of residence.
I am a card carrying Lib Dem, but am a confirmed market-anarchist, of the US Individualist Anarchists or Mutualist tradition. Other passions are social enterprise, monetary reform and housing. See full profile and contact form and at the following web-haunts:
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