They’re riding high in the polls, passing the Liberal Democrats in some of them, but is the United Kingdom Independence Party philosophically libertarian? Alex Massie says no. Ed West says yes.
Is the United Kingdom Independence Party Libertarian?
November 29, 2012 by Jason Sorens
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In my experience, UKIP reproduces the authoritarian/libertarian divide within the Conservative Party, only more extreme and polarised. Nigel Farage, the current leader, is quite reliably libertarian with the exception of immigration.
One perspective from a similarly polarising figure within the British libertarian movement: http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/sean-gabb-banned-by-ukip/
Bottom line, no. I liked Alex Massie’s column a lot. He writes very well.
I agree with Alex Massie, but he lost me at the very end with his snarky comment about gold. “But appealing to goldbugs is a sure sign of crankery.”
oh sod off, immediately comes to mind.