Quick Interview: Michael Rock
Michael Rock is National Chairman of Conservative Future. Here, he has a quickie with YBF:
To represent those disaffected with politics and encourage them to get
involved. The individual can make a difference.
They are megalomaniac, interfering, naive, expensive, out-of-touch idiots.
Freedom-loving, small-state individual.
“I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given
to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to
cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the
government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And,
you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and
women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except
through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to
look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People
have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.
There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an
obligation.”
Margaret Thatcher
it be, and why?
John Prescott because he is a simply appalling, arrogant fool who is
grotesquely offensive and has cost this country a fortune. And it would be
a dose of his own medicine.
who would it be, and why?
Peter Mandelson, preferably somewhere warm, with convivial company from the
Urals to discuss Aluminium tariffs and how he manages to survive so many
metaphorical train wrecks that have littered his career.
I’m not sure if I’ve got the maths right but I’d aim to buy land in
southern Peru, establish a vineyard and bring up lots of little Rocks
(‘pebbles’, boom, boom!)
Labour government, what would it be?
The utter confusion over their own agenda; from day one they chased opinion
and deluded themselves with their own rhetoric whilst spending like ever
other Labour administration, namely recklessly in the wrong areas.
Arequipa, Peru.
Working!
The Smoking Ban.
That no new law could be created without repealing another.
Party politics; the replacement of style over substance and the simply
abhorrent practice of avoiding arguments and debates by resorting to
shallow, headline-grabbing guff.
Guido, Slashdot, The Register, Blogzilla, Samizdata, Failblog.
Obama or McCain?
McCain but I don’t think it’s going to happen…
I still think there’s a strong possibility of a June 2009, to coincide with
the European and Local Elections.
Tax cuts.
A happy, healthy family.
My people did a great thing Tuesday. We elected Barack Obama president. We overcame the usual and unusual smear and fear campaign. We overcame