I love Libertarians

I am hooked on Coffee again. Here's wot I rote over there earlier.

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I fear it's no good appealing to Fraser Nelson on immigration. (I am a huge fan of his on economics in general with one or two caveats of which this is one.)

Like many of the current Spectator team he is more Libertarian than Conservative and I would guess (and he may even have written) that like true Libertarians he believes in unlimited immigration. Worldwide. As if.

I wonder what advice we shall be hearing over the coming years from such comfortably-off Libertarians, free to live wherever and however they choose, perhaps in a Nash terrace like David Miliband, unlike the BNP's followers, on how government should approach Britain's present-time, real-world (as opposed to future or theoretical) social tensions and the resulting problems of 'governability' which their unpragmatic, purist policies would throw up, and of which we see the beginnings now, although of course in the present case caused by totalitarian Socialists among Labour Party's strategists - internationalist nation-despisers to a man/woman. Just like true Libertarians.

The Libertarian riposte of 'But we would not start from here' is fine for academic theorising but useless in developing government policy for keeping the peace in the here and now.

I love Libertarians. They make good drinking companions and they're honest. They keep us Conservatives sharp, focused, on the straight and narrow. But they are far too pure for government and so must be kept in their place, in the box marked 'Ginger Group'.