It was Ronald Reagan that said: "The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally"
How about when that person agrees with you more than 90%?
I was waiting to see what this lot would come up with in regard to Defence, Immigration and other issues...Their Manifesto is now available and contains wording which floats my boat.
On Immigration:
Totally free movement of people into the UK is not practical whilst we have a large welfare state and other countries are themselves not broadly Libertarian in nature. In line with the Rule of Law, a transparent, consistent points based system is one of our key proposed measures to humanely manage migration.
I was expecting to see them embrace the wholesale opening of our borders in fundamentalist Libertarian form.
On Defence:
Our aim is to ensure a strong, independent, sovereign nation. This requires a well funded, trained and equipped professional Armed Forces (both full time and Reservist), geared for the defence of our nation and shipping.
I wasn't expecting much here, either, but this is a stronger plank than the Tories.
And on the Constitution:
The Libertarian Party is committed to reassert the primacy of our Bill of Rights and Common Law system over the Napoleonic system that has encroached from the continent in recent years.
There is actually some very patriotic aspects to this brand of Libertarianism.
Maybe worth a further look.
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