The Libertarian Party of the UK has its Annual Conference today in Bristol and the results of that conference will affect right of centre politics.

Libertarians range from the “little if no government at all” extreme to “Libertarian Lite”, which is basically classic liberalism in a very loose way, in that they are for freedom and less government – they can be included in that broad range of opinion from the less Statist edge of Labour through to this side of the right wing extremists.

It’s a large portion of the population and if it could pull together, unfragmented, it would win power at the next election.  However, tribalism and party politics being what they are, the freedom loving side of politics is fractured.  The party in the worst state is the Conservative Party because it is actually two parties in one – the Labour Tories, headed by David Cameron and Kenneth Clarke and the True Conservatives and patriots to our country, sporting people like David Davis, Douglas Carswell and the like.

Other True Conservatives are found in the UKIP and in large portions of the LPUK.  Together, this assembly would probably gain power.

In fairness to David Cameron, he is reasoning that to gain power next year, he needs, for now, to carry the Europhile Tories [the traitors to Britain, in other words] into power with him and then he can put out feelers to UKIP and other disaffected conservatives from a position of strength.

Of course it won’t work as people right across the political spectrum can see through him and even in his core Europhile support, they suspect him of being a closet Eurosceptic.  It could never have worked the way David Cameron wanted.

So when The Times article came out:

Lord Pearson of Rannoch, UKIP’s newly elected leader, says in an interview with The Times today that he proposed the deal after the party’s strong showing in the European elections.

He reveals that he approached Lord Strathclyde, the Tory leader in the Lords, six months ago and asked him to tell Mr Cameron that if he guaranteed a referendum and gave the Conservative Party a free vote then UKIP would disband and its members stand down. He received no answer. Several months later Mr Cameron announced that the Tories would not hold a referendum.

Lord Pearson adds: “A referendum on a ratified Lisbon Treaty would have become about in or out, which is why the political class wouldn’t do it.”

Lord Pearson says that he was acting on behalf of his predecessor, Nigel Farage, when the overture was made.

Last night Mr Farage confirmed that the meeting took place with his blessing, although he argued that the offer was to withdraw the party from the general election rather than to disband.

… then it was hardly a surprise.  David Cameron is guilty of tribalism of the very worst sort because he puts party before country.  He could have made that deal and brought quite a few libertarians in too, he could have presided over a Conservative alliance which would almost have been guaranteed office but chose the naked power grab instead, bereft of conservative policy and aligned with the socialist Labour wing.

Due to his reckless actions, Britain is heading for a hung parliament and what no one seems to be saying – the end of Britain as we know it because the EU is in place with its regional assemblies, leaving Westminster as a historical curiosity.

As a Conservative Party member, I am disgusted with David Cameron, whereas earlier I just felt he was the wrong man for the job.  I am resisting resigning because there is still the hope that Eurosceptic patriots can get in next year and the Conservative Party will have more of them than the traitors to Britain.

Albion Alliance is still small but it is starting to be felt in one way – it is making contact with all potential MPs and asking them their specific stand on an EU Referendum.  In another way, we’re getting the predictable brush-off which is fine for now, as those MPs and PPCs then go on the 2nd list and that list is to be distributed in a focused Albion Alliance campaign next year to the press, to other organizations in the community and to the blogosphere, including our overseas friends.

We are simply not going to take these brushoffs when the voice of the people of this nation is at stake.  Closer to the election, more direct action will take place.

So those politicians in marginals who feel that it is a good move to brush off those men and women writing letters to them, many of those people who would not have been uneasy under the conservative umbrella – let’s see how it pans out, shall we?

This post has just been printed at The Times in comments – see link above.

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