All entries for Monday 01 August 2011

Is our government fundamentally opposed to political freedoms?

When the current coalition came to power, we were promised a “liberal” government by David Cameron as well as Nick Clegg. The Liberal Democrats and Tory “left” seemed to be offering an almost classical liberal approach entailing individual autonomy in the realms of public, private and economic life.

This philosophy is being used to defend the privatisation of public services, massive public sector cuts and the scrapping of regulations originally designed to protect workers and service users alike. Still, at least this is a government prepared back individual freedoms and roll back the authoritarianism of the Labour years…right…?

>>>Read more at Trans Youth Takes on World.

: 01 Aug 2011 12:04 |  Tags: Activism |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem