Comments on: What do conservatives conserve? http://richarddnorth.com/2008/11/what-do-conservatives-conserve/ Richard D North welcomes you to his blog. (It links to my old site, now archived.) I am a right-winger, in love with the free market and arguing against the soft-left, liberal, green, PC consensus. Oh, and I'm a conflicted softie. A bit hippy and arty round the edges too. Tue, 08 May 2012 22:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr. B.P. Staggers http://richarddnorth.com/2008/11/what-do-conservatives-conserve/comment-page-1/#comment-2059 Mr. B.P. Staggers Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:20:55 +0000 http://richarddnorth.com/?p=178#comment-2059 Lazy blog, lazily written. What did i expect? Lazy blog, lazily written. What did i expect?

]]> By: Kathryn Evans http://richarddnorth.com/2008/11/what-do-conservatives-conserve/comment-page-1/#comment-2058 Kathryn Evans Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:11:31 +0000 http://richarddnorth.com/?p=178#comment-2058 You say, ' a conservative says that the main lesson of the past is to build on it and to remember that we have a hard job to live up to the courage and talent we can see in every class and nation there.' And yet, you want to hack our library service to pieces - a service that has stood the test of time, that continues to serve people, providing them with free resource from which to better themselves. A service that lifted many people, including myself, from working class backgrounds and enabled them to go to university. ''Conservatives believe that we ought to preserve many of the values of the past' - do you iinclude democracy in that? Freedom of Speech? Our library service utterly underpins our culture, what we value as a nation - access to knowledge and information for all - it is the very foundation of society. You made me very angry today Richard D North. You came across as very ignorant on Radio 4. perhaps you should visit your local library, see for yourself the service it provides - spend an hour or two after school watching the children, or drop in mid-morning when the pensioners are in - or try Saturdays when the students tend to be about. Ah, but I missed your last sentence: 'there is a lot to be said for the so-called oppressors amongst his ancestors' - is that really what you're about - close the libraries, lock up easy information for the priveleged and wealthy? You sound like a book burner Richard D North - do you realise that? Do you approve of that type of oppression? You said we wouldn't choose to build a library service if we had the choice today - the thing iis, Richard D north, we don't have to. We already have one. Keep your hands off it. It belongs to the people. You say, ‘ a conservative says that the main lesson of the past is to build on it and to remember that we have a hard job to live up to the courage and talent we can see in every class and nation there.’
And yet, you want to hack our library service to pieces – a service that has stood the test of time, that continues to serve people, providing them with free resource from which to better themselves. A service that lifted many people, including myself, from working class backgrounds and enabled them to go to university.
”Conservatives believe that we ought to preserve many of the values of the past’ – do you iinclude democracy in that? Freedom of Speech? Our library service utterly underpins our culture, what we value as a nation – access to knowledge and information for all – it is the very foundation of society.

You made me very angry today Richard D North. You came across as very ignorant on Radio 4. perhaps you should visit your local library, see for yourself the service it provides – spend an hour or two after school watching the children, or drop in mid-morning when the pensioners are in – or try Saturdays when the students tend to be about.

Ah, but I missed your last sentence: ‘there is a lot to be said for the so-called oppressors amongst his ancestors’ – is that really what you’re about – close the libraries, lock up easy information for the priveleged and wealthy? You sound like a book burner Richard D North – do you realise that? Do you approve of that type of oppression?

You said we wouldn’t choose to build a library service if we had the choice today – the thing iis, Richard D north, we don’t have to. We already have one. Keep your hands off it. It belongs to the people.

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