Liberal Eye

Hello World!  Welcome to the first-ever post on my shiny new blog which comes to you courtesy of the good people at WordPress.

It took some time but eventually I settled on ‘Liberal Eye’ as my online moniker - casting my eye over things that interest me and commenting on them is a pretty good description of what I aim to do.

As for a slogan, ‘Power to the People’ neatly summarizes my political philosophy which is that people should be trusted and given control of their own destiny wherever possible and hence that both political and economic power should be devolved as far as possible.

Or, as Gladstone put it, “Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear”.