This is part 1 of a series, part 2 can be found here.

Don't get me wrong, but right now I'm wondering what it is that the liberal left is exactly trying to do with its resources, limited as they may be. I wouldn't necessarily call myself distinctly left but I do feel very liberal...and it's been evident for long enough now that liberties are not on the agenda. Whether through an authoritarian and totalitarian edging Labour government, or a Conservative party that has never shown any proof of anything other than basic liberalism, we have no prominent banner to crowd under and no apparent leadership to direct us.

Whether this is a particularly leftist trait or not is another argument for another day but I was always very hopeful, and still am, that Liberal Conspiracy could become a leading light for liberalism in the UK political scene over time. Unfortunately it seems like it still needs to publish things that have absolutely no worth to furthering the cause, such as Unity's two pieces in recent days.

Not a pun on Gordon Brown's affliction, but instead the current state of politics which means that political parties simply cannot afford to be different to each other. From Cameron fearing the new Lib Dem tax policy so being forced to admit that his "tax cut" agenda isn't set in stone at all, to Brown aping the Tory policies on forced labour for benefits, and all of this after the Lib Dems craftily stole the main points of Labours transport policy.

Of course while I think the Lib Dem policy is hypocritical garbage, and the news of Cameron willing to raise taxes is like saying the sky is blue, the Labour party never fail to surprise me in how far they're willing to go to become the nasty party, and to completely abandon the kind of liberal thinking that changed the face of this country over a decade ago.