Daniel’s Blog

Status (on 21st December 2009):

• National: UK (Currently in Control: Gordon Brown of The Labour Party (A member of PES and Socialist International))
• Local: Bristol - West (Currently in Control: Stephen Williams of The Liberal Democrats (A member of ALDE and Liberal International))

Votes for:

• Who do you vote for locally: Liberal Democrats
• Who do you vote for nationally: Liberal Democrats
• Member of any parties / political think tanks?: I am considering membership of the Liberal Democrats.

Thoughts:

• Euro-sceptic or Euro-positive: Strong supporter of the EU. Somewhat supporter of the Euro-currency.
• Pro-CCTV or Anti-CCTV: Strongly Anti-CCTV.
• Pro-National-ID-Cards or Anti-National-ID-Cards: Somewhat Anti-National-ID-Cards.
• Green/Environment: Somewhat pro-green/environmental policies.
• Human Rights: Strong supporter of Human Rights.
• Conservativism (aka “Right”): Not particularly conservative.
• Socialist/Communist (aka “Left”): Not particularly socialist. Not communist at all.
• Liberalism: Pro-liberalism. Pro-libertarianism.
• Democracy: Strongly Pro-democracy.
• Monarchy: Somewhat pro-monarchy.
• Favourite term at the moment: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.
• Nationalist or Anti-Nationalist: Strongly Anti-Nationalist.
• High tax or low tax: Preferably minimal tax. Minimalise the amount of types of tax.
• Central or distributed government: Mostly minimal central government, emphasis on distributed local governments.
• Pro-NHS or Anti-NHS: Strongly Pro-NHS.
• Police: Strong supporter of  a government-funded police. Would take money from CCTV funding and place it in the police force.
• Pro-state school or Anti-state Schools: Somewhat Pro-state school.
• Pro-faith schools or anti-faith schools: Somewhat pro-faith schools (with freedom).
• Pro-war or Anti-war: Strongly anti-war. Strongly pro-peace.
• Technology: All non-sensitive government data should be available publicly. Research in technology should be for progression and innovation, and not for “out of curiosity”.
• Religion: Everybody is entitled to have a religion/faith/spiritual-path if they choose, and express their faith at a place of worship. They may freely express their faith in public if they wish to, providing it does not go against other peoples human rights or the law of the land. Politics and Religious Denominations should be separate, although faith and politics are inter-twined and a respect must be made for that (for instance I am (technically) a member of the Church of England, but, I feel that the Church of England should be separated from Politics. However, my spirituality and Christian faith has a hand in my political thoughts, and that should be undeniable. It’s important not to separate our internal political and spiritual thoughts, be democratic and universal) Tag: Social Threefolding.

In general, I suppose you can call me a:

• Centrist Liberal Libertarian Democrat with green and religious tendencies