Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

Interesting to hear on the tv this am that the keynote of the imminent Lib Dem party conference is ?Traditional British values?. Do I recall some on here arguing strongly that there?s no such thing? Maybe Ed?s wrong? Maybe someone should drop him an email quickly?

Such sarcasm, so early. You seem to have been jumping on everything and everyone this week, AF.

Traditional British values? By which we probably mean such things as Democracy, Rule of Law, Individual Liberty/Freedom of Speech, Respect and tolerance for other faiths and beliefs.

I may be wrong but I can’t remember anyone arguing, as you suggest, that ‘there’s no such thing’. What I do remember is arguing that they weren’t peculiar to the British.

By which I mean, which of these values do you believe not to be shared by all Western/NATO democracies and, by extension, what makes them ‘British’. Can you name a value which is synonymous with Britain alone?