Goddamn the fact I’m a liberal and believe in second chances. If I didn’t I’d have jumped on the return of Aitkin into the Tory fold like a ton of bricks. Fair enough, the man served his sentence, but he’s still a convicted liar. I just think it shows the Tory party for who they are: a bunch of crooks and liars. I missed CaMoron on parky on Saturday: I couldn’t stand to watch the smarmy little jackass try to ingratiate himself to the electorate. Friday’s ponderings on causality aside – I still maintain that, since absolute truth is unknowable, the human condition is to all intents and purposes chaotic* – I find it patently obvious that conservatism is a sham. Its designed to maintain the status quo, not improve society. CaMoron and co may prattle on about cleaning up society, about crime being up etc. they may pretend to care about society, but they only care about their selves. Conservatism seems to currently have two faces – the embracing of liberal ideas such as equality and social acceptance versus the attempt to maintain its traditional values. The two are incompatible, and the result is the obvious sham that is David CaMoron.

*I must say I agree with the conclusion Mark draws: ” I take issue with the idea that not being able to predict every action of every person means that the only valid approach is conservatism: in a broad sense, there are social and economic cause and effect, and these can be addressed by political action rather than laissez faire…” yet I’d maintain that one can never predict human action.