Libertarian Party UK

14/06/2026

Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund Defence is a strange stance for the Labour Party to embrace. So why then have they spent the last two years adding unnecessarily to the welfare bill?

It comes just months after them not only increasing benefits in line with inflation but also adding cost to the bill by removing the two-child cap. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimates the cost at £2.3 billion in 2026–27, rising to £3.0 billion by 2029–30. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimated the long-term annual cost even higher – putting it at approximately £3.4 billion.

Yes, we know it was done to try and fight off the rising threat of the Greens, but to now use benefits as an excuse for the parlous state of our armed forces is as multi-faceted as the clocks surrounding Big Ben.

Statutory Sick Pay has been expanded to cover the first three days of illness for all employees and those earning less than £123 per week, moving away from the previous three-day waiting period.

Winter Fuel Allowance has now been reinstated for three-quarters of pensioners following a U-turn on the initial decision to limit the £300-a-year payment only to those in greatest need.

Minimum Wage: They promised to become a genuine living wage by changing the Low Pay Commission’s remit to account for the cost of living and removing discriminatory age bands. This sort of ill-thought out rush for age equality leaves those who have never paid anything in taking as much out as those who may have paid veritable fortunes in.

Ten million free breakfasts at school. When my kids were little, I paid to feed them myself!

A transition to personal insurance MUST come, with the state acting as a backstop only in the most extreme situations, but the dithering and U-turns of Starmer’s Premiership needs to stop!

So there you go, if Labour want to cut benefits, may I humbly suggest they start by undoing their mistakes?

Martin Day – Mercia Co-ordinator.

13/06/2026

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12/06/2026

11/06/2026

Two Tier Politics

It is now seven days to the Makerfield By Election.

We have an excellent and experienced candidate in Dan Clarke. Dan is a serving member of the Libertarian Party's National Coordinating Committee ( NCC ) as Northern Coordinator.

There is also a gathering of supporting Libertarians this Saturday in the Constituency.

The intention of this article and Dan's candidature is demonstrate there is an alternative to the unopposed crowning of Andy Burnham and the nationalist psycho drama between Farage and Lowe. That narrative is played out daily in the media already.

This shows the bankruptcy of the current First Past The Post system where the winning candidate will not represent the vast majority of those living in Makerfield including who will not vote due to apathy or 'a plague on all your houses' vote.

The BBC did not extend an invitation to Dan to be on Question Time only the 'Tax and Spend' Parties. Nor was he invited to the hustings.

Equally the BBC will not cover that Argentina has a Libertarian President turning round that bankrupt country.

The Libertarian Party has a credible raft of policies to end the the destructive high tax de-industrialisation and ludicrous energy policies being pursued by the major parties

If you live in the Constituency lend Dan your vote. Dan has stood in two recent by elections, we need more candidates like Dan so join us, we are completely funded by individual members and donations.

After nearly twenty years of existence the Liberian Party is not going away.

Dan represents those who want a smaller less intrusive State and less Tax!

10/06/2026

The current crop of Chief Constables appear to have forgotten the Peelian Policing Principles and the interaction with their their Paymasters - the Public is vital for their continued existence.

Both the Legal profession and Parliament have seized control issuing 'guidelines' that concentrate on an agenda based on identity politics. Confidence has ebbed away to zero in Nottingham and Southampton.

There is more threat coming from the insidious left wing activists than the alleged far right. This was the proposed plan by the Marxist Antonio Gramsci nearly a hundred years ago. Slowly take control of public institutions through infiltration.

The BBC, the Police, the Judiciary and even the military have all succumbed.

There are six hundred people sitting in Parliament passing Laws like they are going out of fashion , and expecting Police Forces to enforce them.

Unenforceable Law is bad Law.

Firstly, Parliament should be restricted to sitting four months out of twelve and the bulk of their time introducing 'sunset clauses' on existing legislation.

Secondly, Chief Constables should be directly elected by the communities they say they serve, listening to the concerns and priorities they are elected on.

The Magistrate Courts should be given enhanced powers to deal with the explosion of crime. The criminal classes no longer fear the Police and the Law.

Yet Parliament passes Laws on knives , people are still being stabbed, dangerous dogs are proscribed but people are still being mauled to death, pepper sprays which are legal across Europe are legislated against as offensive weapons putting women at risk.

The Libertarian Party had an eight month battle to have its chainsaw logo 'approved ' as it was designated a weapon.

The surveillance state is costly and largely ineffective.

I was recently stopped in Somerset by the smallest Police person on a blue light in the biggest 'interceptor' I have ever seen. He demanded my driving licence and proof I was the owner of the car. Before we went down that route, I asked him why I had been pulled over, according to the DVLA data base I was not insured. On producing the cover note there was a spluttering apology from the pocket-sized police person.

The surveillance State is the future unless we stop this now.

Andrew Withers FRSA



P.S. Since I drafted this post, there has been the alleged attempted murder in Belfast by a Sudanese national who entered Ulster from Dublin.

The inescapable fact is the Stare cannot protect you. The state disarming the public further, year-in year-out is culpable.

09/06/2026

The recent Question Time special for the Makerfield by-election was a disappointing display of establishment politics masquerading as democratic debate.

Before a single question had been asked, the BBC had already demonstrated its bias by excluding Libertarian Party candidate Dan Clarke from the panel. The Libertarian Party paid the same electoral deposit as every other qualifying candidate and is standing in the election on equal legal terms. Yet voters were denied the opportunity to hear directly from Dan Clarke and hear a genuine alternative to the stale consensus offered by the establishment parties.

Andy Burnham embodied everything voters have come to expect from the political class: higher taxes, bigger government, and carefully calculated political positioning. Far from offering change, he represents the continuation of the same failed model that has delivered rising taxation, declining public trust, and an ever-growing state. Makerfield deserves better than being treated as a stepping stone in someone else's political career.

Robert Kenyon, meanwhile, did little to demonstrate that Reform offers a serious alternative. His contributions rarely moved beyond familiar talking points, and he appeared more comfortable criticising the status quo than explaining how his party's promises would be delivered in practice.

The rest of the panel's offerings were equally predictable, including the Green Party's flat refusal to acknowledge the connection between high levels of immigration and increased housing demand - reality not being their strong point as usual.

Labour's answer to every problem is more spending, more taxation, and more government. Reform talks about change, but its growing list of spending commitments raises the same old question: who is going to pay for it?

The Libertarian Party takes a different approach - deep and serious reductions in public spending, meaningful tax cuts, and the strongest possible protections for civil liberties.

Vote Dan Clarke on 18th June

08/06/2026

MAKERFIELD DAY OF ACTION THIS SATURDAY

A reminder that the Libertarian Party is mobilising in Makerfield this Saturday 13th June to support our candidate Dan Clarke.

Following a disgraceful snub by BBC Question Time, it is crucial that we are able to deliver as many leaflets as possible on the ground in Makerfield.

Details:

The Freemason’s Arms, WN3 6RN
2pm

Makerfield is a pivotal by-election in the national spotlight and a real opportunity to raise the profile of libertarianism in the UK. With the state larger, more intrusive and more expensive than ever, this is the moment to get off the sidelines, put away the keyboard, and take concrete action on the ground. Join us on the doors this Saturday and help make sure Dan Clarke’s message is heard.

06/06/2026

Friedrich Hayek once argued that if you put the word 'social' in front of a noun, the meaning was negated. Social justice wasn't about due process; social democracies didn't safeguard freedom.

For those on the left, who can never have enough social-isms, there is a more toxic prefix. If you want to damn something, stick a 'neo' in front.

Nothing is quite as wicked as a neoconservative, but coming dangerously close is a neoliberal. Liberals were once generally supposed to be the squishiest of centrists. But listen to the men and women making the weather in British politics now, and you'd imagine that neoliberals were the horsemen of the apocalypse.

Andy Burnham has blamed '40 years of neoliberalism' for the problems faced by workers in Makerfield, and indeed beyond. The banking crisis, low growth, youth unemployment, decaying high streets: it was neoliberalism wot dunnit.

Michael Simmons
The Spectator

The BBC / Ministry of Truth seems to be in cahoots with Mr Burnham's campaign.

For the record the Libertarian Party received no invitation to be on Question Time , just Left or Soft Left v Reform

06/06/2026

Clairvoyant musings of an Average Joe.

Greetings, fellow travellers (not the useful idiot types, clearly). How are things in the Democratic People’s Republic of Britain? Enjoying “our” socialism? Looking forward to the coming Manchester flavour, brought to us by the Cambridge graduate who went straight into politics and has never lived in the real world? How is that two-tier stuff working out? I won’t say “I told you so”, but I told you so. Here’s what this Average Joe (no AI involved (how very dare you!)) said in April 2024:

“What I also fear is a natural result of this onslaught on freedom: those of us who value individual liberty (including Average Joe) will see the only way out is to fight fire with fire. Will we see a shift on the Right towards Authoritarianism? “After all, that’s what the Left is doing to us, isn’t it?” Be under no illusion, Authoritarianism is just as evil as Collectivism; indeed, they are the two sides of the same coin.
I hope I’m wrong. Am I paranoid? I probably am. But even if a tenth of what I fear comes to fruition, I urge everyone who values individual liberty to stay faithful to your beliefs. History also tells us that intolerant regimes always fail, so never lose hope…”

I’m not saying I’m a clairvoyant, but feel free to call me Mystic Meg. But…it wasn’t exactly difficult to predict, was it? Not for those of us who avidly follow politics. We all knew Starmer was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, aka a Fabian. Those of us who’d bothered to dig into his core beliefs knew that the “We’re not the Tories” electoral strategy was simply a smokescreen to attain power and bring about a social change comparable to the subtleties of Blair’s attack on our Constitution. Starmer is clearly on his way out, but he’s not the problem; today’s Labour Party is.

What comes after Starmer, presumably Burnham, will be even worse. Could we see sixth form common room politics run the country until 2029? Burnham may try to give his premiership a hint of legitimacy by calling an early election, but that is not without risk (but I think he may be tempted). Or, he’ll soldier on, convinced we can tax our way to prosperity and ultimately have to request a bailout from the IMF and split the Labour Party by implementing swingeing spending cuts. I don’t know; as I said above, I’m no clairvoyant.

What worries me more is that societal pressures, coupled with a hot summer, will spill out onto the streets, giving Starmer/Burnham/Rayner/Miliband/whoever gets the gig the opportunity to do what is in the DNA of socialists: crack down hard, suspend certain civil rights, take individuals into “protective custody” (you think I’m joking?). I’m no clairvoyant, but the Southport riots are a key indicator of what this government is capable. However, I think it’s too late for politicians (of all shades) and commentators to call for calm; the genie, sadly, is out of the bottle.

We live in worrying times; I’d love to be able to look into a crystal ball and tell you it’s all going to be OK. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I can give you that assurance.

Average Joe