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To say I was shocked and surprised was an understatement. Whilst having breakfast with my youngest daughter yesterday, she asked “Is Brexit going to be bad instead of good for the country? My cookery teacher told us it is going to be really bad and we will have to buy chlorinated chicken and all other things will be bad too.” She then went onto ask me “Did you lie when you said that you think Brexit will be a good thing for our country?” I was totally taken aback and went o

In this frightful year of Covid-19 the Government has forgotten the children and in doing so has left many young children of both primary school age and high school age in a terrible dark and lonely place. In their crusade of authoritarianism thrust upon us, Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have sown the very dark seeds of mental health issues and depression onto a generation of youngsters who should be full of life and happiness living life to the fullest. The forced closure o

In days gone by, it was not a rare occurrence to avoid visiting an elderly relative when suffering from flu or even a heavy cold. All generations were aware of the risks it posed to the elderly and took steps to minimise it. It looks horribly like the government want to take that decision out of the hands of individuals and ban university students from returning home at Christmas. Students, 1,000’s of whom have been confined to their rooms for two weeks at a time after outbre

Dated 31st August 2020 As the majority of parents prepare to send their children to school for the first time in six months, the Libertarian Party has hit out at the “completely random” rules their children face. The diktat that pupils were to wear PE kit on the relevant days, and not allowed to change, has particularly upset many parents. New Black Country group leader, Aaron Hudson, a former independent Parliamentary candidate for Stourbridge, is one who is unimpressed, say

“The curious task of Economics is to demonstrate to men, how little they really know, about what they imagine, they can design.” ~ F.A Hayek, The Fatal Conceit. On the 8th of May 1899, an individual was born in Vienna, Austria, who would go on to be one of the most prominent Economists, not only of his era, but of all time. Today we celebrate the birthday of Friedrich August von Hayek, the Austrian-British Economist and Philosopher. F.A. Hayek was, and continues to be to th

Date: Monday 4th February 2019 Libertarian Party UK’s Education Spokesperson, Zoë Tidswell, responds to Children Commissioner Anne Longfield’s call that a compulsory register of all youngsters in Home Education is needed for their own protection as they are ‘missing’. Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner, has called for a compulsory register of all youngsters who are being home educated amid concerns that as many as 80,000 are ‘missing’ from official records. It is all

In his intervention around the recent Tory party conference Jacob Rees-Mogg observed that “…the ever-mighty State wants control – and the easiest way to get this is by not supporting the Family. That way it creates more dependence and therefore a greater ability to interfere in people’s lives.” For the Libertarian Party the growing encroachment on civil liberties, family autonomy and the encouraging of family breakdown through perverse welfare and tax policies, is a grave con