Originally Posted by The Bear

Although I can well understand the delight that many people have in Spink adopting the UKIP as the party he has decided he wants to associate himself with I do feel that the people at Castle point who voted for the Conservative Party have been left out in the cold.

Given that people vote for the party and not the man, with the exception of when the man had been standing as an independent if the man wants to dissociate himself from the party that he represented during the election that saw him returned to office, the honourable thing for him to do is to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds and stand for election on the ticket he now wants to support in the by-election so created.

As I wrote, I can well understand the delight for the UKIP to now have a presence in Westminster. What a shame it had to happen in such an unsatisfactory manner.

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."