NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
In Association with the Libertarian International

Release Date: 11th August 2004
Release Time: Immediate

Contact Details: Sean Gabb, 07956 472 199, sean@libertarian.co.uk
Chris R. Tame, 07957 644 519, chris@libertarian.co.uk
Release url: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/news/nr023.htm

"FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK SUGGESTS NEW NAMES FOR CONSERVATIVE PARTY"

The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties think tank and pressure group, strongly welcomes the reported suggestions made by senior Conservative Party figures that the Party adopts a new name.

Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Chris Tame commented:

"In a free market economy truthfulness in product labelling is essential if consumers are to make informed decisions. We thus enthusiastically welcome the media reports that senior Conservative Party figures are considering re-branding their party with a new name.

Not surprisingly, the strategic and tactical geniuses that have been running the party (into the ground) for so long have come up with such turkeys as: "Democrats", "New Democrats" and "Progress and Reform Conservatives".

The Libertarian Alliance is pleased to offer the party, at no charge for its business consultancy services, the following suggested names, all of which we feel capture the true character of the party under its post- Thatcher leadership:

Not the Conservative Party
The Conserved Nothing Party
The Con Party
Party U Don't Like
The Not Quite So Nasty Party
The Really Rather Nice Party, Actually
The Anything To Get Us Elected Party
The Useless Pragmatist Party
The Quisling Right Party
The Me Too Party
The Promises, Promises Party
The Don't Mention EU Withdrawal Party
The Don't Flog 'Em and Hang 'Em Party
The Any Slogan Will Do Party
The Stupid Party (Copyright: John Stuart Mill)"

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Note(s) to Editors

(1) Dr. Chris R. Tame is the founder and Director of the Libertarian Alliance. A prolific writer and lecturer on many topics in sociology, economics, philosophy and the history of ideas, in January 1995 he addressed a meeting in Conservative Central office on "The Importance of Principle", in which he predicted the collapse of the Party if it persisted in unprincipled pragmatism.

Dr. Tame can be contacted for further comment at 07957 644519 or by email at director@libertarian.co.uk

Extended Contact Details:

The Libertarian Alliance is Britain’s most radical free market and civil liberties policy institute. It has published over 700 articles, pamphlets and books in support of freedom and against statism in all its forms. These are freely available at http://www.libertarian.co.uk

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Associated Organisations

The Libertarian International - http://www.libertarian.to - is a sister organisation to the Libertarian Alliance. Its mission is to coordinate various initiatives in the defence of individual liberty throughout the world.

Sean Gabb's personal website - http://www.seangabb.co.uk - contains about a million words of writings on themes interesting to libertarians and conservatives

Liberalia - http://www.liberalia.com - maintained by by LA Executive member Christian Michel, Liberalia publishes in-depth papers in French and English on libertarianism and free enterprise. It is a prime source of documentation on these issues for students and scholars.

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