Why the Conservatives lost its libertarian vote

Tim Montgomerie's thought-provoking article suggests that the Conservatives simply do not understand we libertarians.

A crucial point that most writers and politicians fail to realise or acknowledge is that Tim's "A.N.T.I."s tend to be self-reliant, responsible, principled and inherently fair-minded. They also tend to be libertarian in outlook.

We (ANTIs) noticed a long time ago that the 'mainstream' political parties have their own hidden agendas - one of them being their pro-EU stance. The deceit that is propaganda, was easily discovered via the simple mechanism of matching words with deeds. We discovered mismatches across the board.

Time and again, we have heard politicos make promises or assertions only to execute complete reversals at some later stage. This wouldn't be so bad if such reversals weren't accompanied by clever spin / vague language that can mean anything they want it to mean, at any time.

So often have we caught them out in lies that it is inconceivable that we might ever believe another word they say. Consequently, we watch, predict - and are most often proved right.

So I see no point in Cameron & Co trying to find out how to press our buttons, because he and his political buddies have now been denied access to them. Permanent exclusion, if you will. They have not earned our trust or our support.

The West's populace has been hoodwinked into accepting that globalisation, in the form of anti-protectionism, is a "good thing" and notice that Tim use the term "nationalist" almost as though nationalism were some sort of aberration - old-fashioned or somehow small-minded and backward. I wonder how many people have critically thought through these issues.

ANTIs tend not to believe that globalisation is a "good thing".

Just as immigration from poorer nations tends to level down salaries in the UK while making the standard of living more expensive (more demand), letting in cheap goods from developing countries makes our goods too expensive to produce. So, we lose our factories to the developing countries. And we give them our aid money as well?

Globalisation is the goal of the mult-national corporations, which have spearheaded these moves and have greatly profited from them, at our expense. For instance, via bank bailouts, body scanners, flu vaccines, cheap labour (intra-company transfers being the latest such scam) - etc.

In the old days, we effectively dealt with these issues - mainly affecting the in lower and middle incomers - via immigration controls and tariffs. Politicos have been weakening these reasonable devices as fast as the [hoodwinked] electorate allowed.

Global treaties (to which the electorate has not consented to subscribe) have become the primary means by which sovereignty of nations (and the democratic processes therein) is gradually destroyed, along with borders. Globalisation is killing the middle classes by savaging their culture and their disposable incomes. And as the EU has demonstrated, greased palms work wonderfully well as a means of 'helping' politicians to transfer their loyalties from their own people to the control structures that 'own' the globalisation treaties. (E.g., UN, WTO, WHO, ... etc).

By weakening the democratic process, globalisation chips away at our civil liberties, despite what Cameron & Co would have us believe.