Could this be the explanation?

Friday, May 15, 2009

Could this be the explanation?

I have expressed some puzzlement over the fact that Libertas seemed to be spending much of its time attacking UKIP. After all, UKIP voters are unlikely to move to Libertas, whose political ideology (if one can call it that) is very different. The Conservatives, on the other hand, are not dissimilar in their views.

Naturally, being a cynical person, I thought of an obvious answer: the notion of some deal at some point between the two. It seems that others are thinking along the same lines.

EUObserver reports about the negotiations that are going on between the British Conservatives, the Polish Law and Justice Party and the Czech ODS, as well as a few smaller entities. They are finally talking about setting up a somewhat more sceptical and, possibly, free-market grouping in the Toy Parliament after June 7. (Possibly because the Law and Justice Party, for one, is a long way from being free-market.)

The new group expects to get at least 65 MEPs, which would make it the fourth largest in parliament.

Mr Zahradil said the group is also interested in taking in MEPs from the Libertas party, if Libertas politicians find themselves stranded after the EU vote.

"I believe we can negotiate on some of the political issues that are now being discussed within Libertas. My feeling is, they will not make it in seven countries. If they cannot establish their own group, in my opinion this [taking in Libertas MEPs] is perfectly negotiable," he said.

"I assume they wouldn't want to be 'non-inscrit'."

That does raise the interesting question of why vote Libertas at all but then that has been the question all along.

Heh!

Remember this:

...It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd; your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean Stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings, and which by God's help and the strength He has given me, I now come to do.

I command ye, therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. You have sat here too long for the good you do. In the name of God, go!

We need him now.

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