Libertarian Party UK

16/09/2026

The Home Secretary ordered police to use all powers to crack down on balaclava-wearing far-right protesters for recent and future protests.

It will be interesting to see how many of these ongoing anti-illegal migration protectors claim immunity for religious reasons. How many of them identify as Muslim women? One 76yr-old man tried last weekend and was arrested.

A good law is one that is uniformly enforceable and reduces crime. This legislation by Shabana Mahmood falls into neither category. Protestors are rightfully concerned that when a post on X can lead to prison time, what is the punishment for peaceful protest? Not an offence at the moment, but give Labour time...

It should not be possible for ANY government to retrospectively change the law, but this current government are already trying to do just that with political donations..

The double standards involved in exempting the burqa from a face coverings ban will merely increase the resentment felt by opponents of the lax security on British borders.

Laws and standards MUST apply to all equally, or they will be widely considered a classic case of tyranny. When citizens feel the system is rigged, it can lead to civil unrest, as seen in historical movements challenging unjust laws, because the social contract is broken when equal protection is denied.

We are governed by consent in this country. If that consent is withdrawn, there is only anarchy. UK law does not recognise a right for individuals to opt out of governance, but would be hard-pushed to sustain a position against a mass-movement. The Poll Tax riots proved that.

Martin Day

15/09/2026

Right Wing Parties do not care about capitalism.

Last week saw the AfD narrowly miss out on taking control of the Parliament in Saxony. While by no means a defeat, the German Anti Far Right firewall which has Liberals, Moderates and Communists join forces wherever possible to stop the AfD taking power means that almost can never be a good enough result. It’s victory or death. However, there is a dose of water on the firewall as a splinter Left Wing party called BSW may break from the firewall to join the AfD in power.

“Strange Bedfellows” you might think, but the reason for their split makes it easier to understand, their economics is mainline leftist: Welfare, State Industry etc, but their social policy is something out of Rupert Lowe’s dream journal.

If you look at what these parties are promising, then it becomes clearer why they would do a deal. The Nouveau Right is promising one thing: Immigration Reform, everything else is subservient to that goal. Their plan is very clear: Through halting immigration, tackling illegal migration, remigrating people already here back to their home countries and blasting small boats out of the water and letting refugees drown, Europe will reinvent itself in an image of old. We will be back on top, the workshop of the world, rich and white and happy. That’s the social contract, everything else is a means to that end. Does the average AfD supporter care if they are going to use public money to prop up local industries or increase welfare? Absolutely not, it might mean more money in their pockets or a good middle class job for their kids.

Being pro capitalist has always been the default for Right Wing Parties wanting to get into power, Hi**er used capitalistic language to court the upper and middle class in opposition to communism. Even by the early 30’s he realised that a free market was in direct opposition to his evil dreams for Germany. By the mid 30’s German businessmen were reading Das Kapital trying to figure out how he was running the economy, by the late 30s by some estimates it was harder to start a new business in N**i Germany than in the USSR. Social Plans are economic plans; there are no two ways about it. If you want to move, exterminate, remigrate or re-educate sections of the population, you will have to redirect resources to do this, if you want women to stay at home, you’re going to have to support the loss of income, changing people changes the economy.

The AfD, Reform and the National Rally are cut from the same cloth, the irony of heavily nationalist European parties having each other’s support aside, they will of course parade their “pro capitalist” rhetoric around to get money and garner support. Hey, who doesn’t want to make 70 million quid in a week! But they’re as pro-capitalist as the cat, they will devolve into downright Stalinism if it achieves their social goals. There will be a crony elite at the top, closed shops and barriers to entry for new businesses, essentially Lords and Ladies who will appear as talking heads to pontificate on how healthy and strong the economy is now.

Don’t be fooled by any of their chat. If they were libertarians, they would be libertarians. But they are not libertarians, they are racist charlatans who want your vote so they can implement their social policies. Everything else is by the by for them and they need to be called out on this issue. Don’t splash your vote on a Reform or Restore candidate as the most capitalist of a bunch of communists.

Own your own vote: Run as a Libertarian, challenge them on the facts and figures (How the hell are they going to pay for any of their National Socialist dreams?), give people a real alternative, that is the only way to stop this madness. They aren’t your friends; they are not on your side. They will be just as authoritarian as the left; they will use the state in the same way as the left and the chaos they cause will be exactly the same as if the left did it. You’re a libertarian, stand up for yourself, no one else is going to do it for you.

Malachy McDermott

14/09/2026

12/09/2026

Navel Gazing: The disease that's holding us back.

If you have been in a corporate job you've probably gone on a retreat that you treated as a day off. Team building exercises, role playing work situations and of course: Personality tests. Endless quizzes and questionnaires about what you think you know about yourself. Myers-Briggs is probably the most famous of these, are you an INTJ, an ESPN or maybe an LMNOP? All widely debunked nonsense, but a lot of consultants need to justify the MBA they paid for and its adding value to the economy… probably.

But this in itself is symptomatic of a wider societal problem in the West. We don't know what we want any more. We can't come up with a clear vision of the future so we look to the past. Let's go back to the 1970s says Burnham, No to the 1950s says Farage, no to the 1930s says Lowe, no to Pre Bronze Age Hunter Gatherer society says Polanski.

The constant scrutiny of who am I? What am I? How do I function? Is part of this, we are clueless to our own agency, our own ability to create whatever reality we want. We feel beholden to the dead, fearing cataclysmic apocalypse if our philosophy or dream isn't grounded in the teachings of former master.

We sit and think about ourselves in the third person and so we have to place that person into a box, a political compass, a personality type, a lineage, a tribe, an ancestry, whether it is real or imagined.

This is where China has us beat fair and square. They have a clear vision of what they want and they are moving towards that goal regardless of how anyone else feels about it. They are building spaceships out of sci-fi movies, they probably won't work, but the dream and the vision is there that's the point. They are progressing to their goals.

Musk has revolutionised space travel, but it's a novelty, almost like Free Marketeers can say “See look what we can do?” But like the Soviets after Sputnik, we don't know what to do next. We are entirely lost and directionless and so we've reverted to tribalism and ancient lore.

Modern people idolising crusaders and knights and Roman Generals and Byzantine monks is laughable and pathetic. Sure its our culture, keep the books, keep the relics, thats fine, but does every stone circle need to be a Grade 1 listed structure with a team of tax payer funded stoned students to look after it?

You can preserve your history without letting it own you, we can maintain a culture without it having to be a carbon copy of an idolised past that never existed. The big, bright future we once believed in is just a blinding flash of light so we turn back to the dim past as that's easier.

“If we could just go back” is the mantra of a dead society that can't even, on an individual level, make up its mind who it is without subjecting itself to testing and examination. Are you a Georgist-Thatcherite Libertarian-Paleo Conservative or a Post-Maoist-Eco Socialist? Who the hell cares if you're a gravy boat filled with dandelions. You're a human being with infinite faculties to choose from and decisions that you need to make. YOU need to make those choices for yourself. Make a decision and run with it.

What we need is a direction, a goal, no matter how insane it sounds, but a future, not a revamp of the Pax Romana or slide back to Soviet Socialism. They're gone, dead and buried and we need to wake up from the constant inward reflection and start looking outward and onward or we will be players in someone else's dream.
But I would say all this, I'm a bloody ENTJ!

Malachy MsDermott

11/09/2026

The blob won the last 'election'

The blob is what Dominic Cummings former advisor to Boris Johnson and Director of Vote Leave called the permanent establishment squatting in the Civil Service and Parliament.

Steve Hilton former advisor to David Cameron was equally critical of the Civil Service , stating the a good proportion of his time was spent rebutting 'initiatives' put out by the Civil Service that had zero sanction from number ten or the elected government.

The 'blob' does not like original thinkers it wants conformity and a monopoly of power. We are firmly in the post democratic age

The term post-democracy was used by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. This administration achieved power by securing less than twenty per cent of of the vote. In my view that is a Coup D'Etat by the blob.

We now have a former Civil Servant Sir Keir Starmer , grey and lacking in charisma as Prime Minister. His track record as head of the CPS is appalling . His involvement in the Assange Affair is consistent with a grey civil servant 'following orders'

I watched his cynical photo op at the Grenfell Tower site. May I ask whose policies forced people to have these dangerous chicken coops in the sky ?

When the building opened in 1974, it was nicknamed the 'Moroccan Tower' because many tenants came from the local Moroccan immigrant community. In recent years, some residents had become leaseholders, mostly under the Right to Buy scheme; 14 flats in the tower, and three in Grenfell Walk, were leaseholder owned at the time of the 2017 fire.

The area has always been the seat of racial tension going back to the Notting Hill riots.

In six weeks we are watching the 'Peter Principle ' of competence being displayed. With the government paying its dues to its public service union paymasters and promised tax hikes next month against an already beleaguered over taxed public.

The one thing not on the cards is a reduction of the size of the State and it's oppressive interference in our lives.

In October the Libertarian Party has been ordered to change its 2012 Constitution by the Electoral Commission quango ( a woke part of the blob) or face de registration after nearly twenty years . As a founder member I cannot vote for these changes , that is however down to the membership at conference to decide.

I have personally come to the conclusion that it is easier to found a free city than trying to change the death spiral politically the not so United Kingdom.

As an emigre I have been raising funds to purchase land overseas that I designate as more free than the U.K. In November I am going to the Free Cities Conference in Prague. Capital flight and oppression led to the founding of the American Colonies in the 1630's .

Being a Libertarian in England is not without hazard in a single party state. It takes courage, it is time for others younger than me to turn the tide and pick up the baton.

Andrew Withers. (Written two years ago, but just as true today.)

09/09/2026

I am writing this from a beach in Greece over looking a set of barren rocks and mountains called Albania.

Albania , Montenegro and Bosnia are to join the EU on 2030

The coastline of Greece is dotted with Hotels , pleasure boats and yachts , on the Albanian side nothing , just Hoxha era block houses to accommodate the comrades of his failed regime.

Yet yesterday the two vessels that 'steamed' out of port was an Albanian warship and the largest private yacht I have ever seen. Both flying the Black Eagle.

The immediate thought that went through my mind was 'source of funds'

This accession means that millions of Euros will be pumped into these countries , mostly to the owners of the super yachts by the The EU body responsible for managing the accession of new member states is the Directorate-General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood (DG ENEST), working alongside the European Commissioner for Enlargement.

The bloodshed in the Ukraine is directly linked to this Directorate.

The historical lack of knowledge about the German led EU amongst the Left wishing to rejoin the EU is terrifying.

The 2013 bail in in Cyprus is a lesson in point.

This is Empire building nothing less. Everybody wants welfare and grants from the EU

Andrew Withers

08/09/2026

UK problems need libertarian solutions: it’s the economy, stupid!
If we look at both the UK economic and financial situation in the last few years, the picture we get is not a good one.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth average of the last 3 years is less than half what it was in the pre-Covid period (2010-19 average growth of about 1.97%, while 2023-26 is 0.92% - U.K. GDP (1960-2026)). The Covid-related inflationary spike has been put under control but, levels are still much higher than pre-Covid period, where they were generally well below 2%, now still hovering above 3% (CPIH ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100 - Office for National Statistics). Unemployment has also been on an increasing trend in the past few years, from 3.8% in Jan 2022 to 4.9% of the latest April-June figures of this year.

The financial situation is even worse, with the UK debt now reaching about 3 trillion Pounds (94% of GDP). UK government borrowing has also recorded the to be the second highest level on record, with the first being during the pandemic, of 24.3 billion Pounds (Public sector finances, UK - Office for National Statistics) an impressive 3.4 billion more than what the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) has predicted. This means that the government must borrow record amounts of money to pay for what it spends and it also ends up spending more than what was planned.

To give some context of how much this bill is in real terms, you might be familiar with the story published more than a year ago on the Telegraph (Britain spending almost twice as much on debt as defence). The bill paid to service debt interest is about 109 billion Pounds, while the entire defence budget sits at about 65 billion Pounds.

The worsening financial situation and general lack of confidence in the UK government is clearly reflected in the incredible increase of the interest rates for UK government bonds: the 10-year bond yields went from 1.17% in January 2022 to the current 5.13% (UK 10 Year Bond Yield - Quote - Chart - Historical Data - News). This means that every Pound the government borrows now, costs five times more in interest payments than what it would in 2022.
So, what would a libertarian do to resolve this?

First, I would look at structural reforms to reduce the number of taxes and simplify as much as possible the process to calculate and pay them, along with deregulation/cancellation of as many rules and regulations stifling creativity, innovation and businesses. I would focus initially on the ones having the most negative impact on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are responsible for generating most new jobs.

It won’t be possible to lower taxes in the short term, while we carry out an extensive spending review to cut spending and eliminate the 24 billion Pound budget deficit. The objective is to bring the UK government to a positive budget (expenditure far less than tax revenue). During this process, I would expect most, if not all, Quangos to be eliminated, along with entire redundant Ministerial bodies such as the Department for digital, culture media and sport and the Department of energy security and net zero, just to name a few. Substantial savings will also be achieved by imposing a pay cap to all public sector workers and consultants of 75% of the Prime Minister remuneration, as the head of government shouldn’t be paid less than anyone else working for the government itself.

Achieving and sustaining a positive fiscal balance as soon as possible is the top priority. Once debt is falling, economic growth is on an increasing trend and interest rates on government debt are reduced it would be possible to start looking at reducing taxes.
All of this is not impossible, it is necessary. The UK government simply cannot hope to keep maxing out their credit card or cheating their way-out debt by creating money out of thin air.

Marco Bocci

07/09/2026

⁨📷⁩ ⁨My enemy's enemy is my friend is the very worst principle to choose your allies.

Nigel Farage at his conference, where a young woman protester was assaulted by a half crazed mob. Beware of what you are wishing for. The Faragistas are pumped up believing that removing 'Johnnie Foreigner' will turn the clock back to prosperity, announced that he would introduce 'a state of emergency.'

This has been tried before A state of emergency in Germany was declared on February 28, 1933, one day after the Reichstag fire.

The Emergency Declaration

The Event: The German parliament building burned down on the night of February 27, 1933.

The Action: Adolf Hi**er blamed the fire on a communist plot. He persuaded aging President Paul von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution

The Result: The decree officially established an emergency state that suspended basic civil rights, including free speech, press freedom, and assembly.

Many Libertarians have been seduced into believing that 'Our Nige' the chummy bloke from the pub is going overthrow the combined forces of Socialism and Toryism (much the same these days).

Farage does not like competition to his leadership, many have been ousted from UKIP, The Brexit Party and Reform, every time splitting the non-socialist vote into factions guaranteeing Burnham a legitimate win.

I have not heard him utter one word about Freedom of Speech, a written Constitution, Devolution, overturning the Surveillance State

My best guess is that he will increase and use the power of the State bequeathed to him by the 'blob' under previous Tory, Lib Dem and hard left Socialists to stamp down on his personal enemies.

The vigilantes were on the streets of Dover, wait until they return armed, the same mentality was at the Faragista love in.

Stopping the boats will only happen with the ending of the Welfare State free for all not making it a whites only preserve⁩.

Andrew Withers

06/09/2026

Reform changing the tax free allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 will mean less than £500 a year additionally for low earners, the raising of the higher rate to £70,000 will mean higher earners getting upwards of £4,000 back in their pockets.

If they had stuck with the original pledge of raising the tax free allowance to £20,000, it would have meant lower earners receiving almost £1,500 back. Reform touted this backtrack as necessary in light of public finances. So why not reduce the higher rate to £60,000 and keep the tax free allowance at £20,000?

This is highly indicative of how they will approach economic policy overall, low earners will be targeted to pay for an increasingly wealthy upper middle and upper class. This is a punishment for being poor. Our lowest earners need more money in their pockets, as much as possible, high earners, many of whom made the decisions that have us in this mess to begin with, should bear more of the weight.

All taxation is obviously theft, but there's a national debt that would make a Mafia loan shark weep. That needs to be paid through a surplus budget, which needs to be maintained mainly by slashing spending, but the remainder paid for by taxing those who can pay.

It is also counter intuitive to any cost cutting measures in regards to welfare, more tax for the poor means less poor people working, that means more social housing, more benefits, more spending.
Having the upper middle class forego a trip to Disney every year is nothing if a working class family gets to pay their rent.

Going down this increasingly American Republican Party idea of having the poor prop up the rich is chaos. You might as well hand every working class person a copy of Marx and an AR15. Or do Reform think that they are too stupid to know they are being screwed? Maybe that if they spark a little race war people won't see themselves being robbed?
Who knows?

Mal McDermott