Libertarian UK South East Branch

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.

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

05/06/2026

04/06/2026

A reminder that…

Protesting against the police is not undermining the rule of law.

Asking that knife crime be prioritised over policing speech is not sowing division.

Expecting police not to believe the first lie they are told is not asking too much.

Saying these things is not playing politics.

01/06/2026

"I think it would be very hard for us to fight a war successfully today. Just as it did during the 1930s, the Treasury wants to save money by cutting the armed forces, while our politicians bicker about our relationship with Europe and what to do about illegal immigrants turning up on our doorstep but do nothing.
These, however, are problems for the present generation.
We knew the values for which we were fighting; democracy, free speech, the rule of law, and equality before the law."

Flt Lt Colin S. Bell
DFC BEM AE FR AeS FRICS IRRV (Hons)

Colin Bell is now over 100 years of age, he flew Mosquitos in 608 Pathfinder Squadron in WW2. He knew what he was fighting against. The evils of National Socialism.

He had served with Poles who had lost their homes and their country. He was determined that this would not happen to his country.

Mark his words well, you are the present generation

Vote Dan Clarke Libertarian

31/05/2026

Getting the economy going is as simple as ABC:

A. Entrepreneurship drives economic growth by contributing to GDP through job creation and tax revenue. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant portion of employment (Before the "pandemic", they accounted for 55% of jobs in the UK) and GDP in developed economies. They need to be allowed to do that without being taxed out of existence.

B. Entrepreneurship serves as a vital pathway for wealth generation and poverty alleviation, including minorities, women, and youth, by fostering an inclusive economic environment. It enhances social welfare by creating community wealth, providing dignified employment, and addressing unmet market needs through diverse consumer choices.

C. Entrepreneurial firms should be able to compete with large corporations by providing a better service, thereby enhancing overall industry rivalry and efficiency. Recent history has showed an economic shift towards centralisation, particularly post-“pandemic”. Corporations have often benefited from increasing regulations, creating an imbalanced economic system.

In short, let entrepreneurs have the freedom to do what they do best.

Vote Dan Clarke – Libertarian Party

30/05/2026

These are the nine Peelian Police Principles that the Libertarian Party want reinstated

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.
2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.
3. To recognise always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws.
4. To recognise always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives.
5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.
6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.
7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
8. To recognise always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty.
9. To recognise always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

Please note that failure to investigate r**e gangs, handcuffing and arresting a dying young man after he was accused of racism by his murderer,arresting people for free speech and upsetting words are not amongst the nine.

The Libertarian Party calls for the reinstatement of an elected Shire Reeve ( Sheriff ) to take command of police forces that fall way short of the nine principles.

Vote Dan Clarke Libertarian Party

29/05/2026

Democracy, what Democracy?

Yesterday we were treated to the news that over one million 18 - 24 year olds were classed as Not in Education, Employment or Training or NEETS. The Milburn Report is the most damming indictment of the failure of Government Intervention , deprive a viable future for young people, the future of the country.

This has been caused by the minimum wage of between £8 and £12.71 which has killed the prospect of them getting a job. Why would an employer take the risk of taking on anybody who had no skills? This coupled with the hike in Employers NI is a Tax on jobs.

Billions have been spent on this demographic to no avail.

Labour's much vaunted 50% of school leavers of going to University to do pointless degrees like knitting through the medium of dance, was just pointing to a life time of debt through Student Loans.

This Age group deserves a better chance. Abolishing the Minimum Wage is a start, when the country is screaming out for doctors, vets, nurses, engineers and skilled plumbers, carpenters etc.

Robbing other countries of their skilled people is an obscenity, as is taxing jobs.

Companies and individuals should be incentivised to take on young people not taxed.

State intervention has disrupted this former route to life chances. The Libertarian Party will campaign for the tax system to be abolished for all under 24 year olds and a flat rate tax of 10% thereafter.

Vote Dan Clarke, Libertarian Party for .

28/05/2026

Accountability,

The Libertarian Party is committed to reinstate the offence of misconduct in public office for all Public Office holders. Impeachment is still on the Statute Book, though treated as obsolete.

Impeachment is a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against public official for misconduct. Impeachment tends to be confined to ministerial officials as the unique nature of their positions may place ministers beyond the reach of the law to prosecute, or their misconduct is not codified into law as an offense except through the unique expectations of their high office. Both "peers and commoners" have been subject to the process, however.

The recent 'scandals' from the MP's expenses onwards show that those seeking high public office see themselves as untouchable. This has undermined public confidence in the political process.

Once those willing to turn out and vote falls below 50% political legitimacy ends.

The Libertarian Party believes that root and branch reform of the political process is now essential. Impeachment must be reinstated to hold the corrupt and incompetent to account.

Vote Dan Clarke, Libertarian Party for .