Is David Cameron a fascist? Or worse, a Heathite?
David Cameron (via Tim Worstall) the Telegraph reports, has said:School leavers should be forced to do three or four months of community serviceTim Worstall is not happy at this, saying:
He is seriously suggesting that all people should work, unpaid, for the State. This is Fascism folks, a foul and vile idea that the interests of the State trump those of the individual.
Andrew Ian Dodge has worse (in right-wing circles) insults:
Yes, more clues he is a paternalistic patronising patriachal Heathite Tory.
I can't say I think it is a good idea. It is obviously a Cameron gimmick. But the claims of fascism and the opposition of AID do make me think maybe there is something in it. After all it seems to me that after 11 years of compulsory schooling, a quarter of a year further compulsion, while perhaps silly, is not enough to make me think it's 1930s Italy or Germany.
posted by Matthew @ 1/25/2006 11:57:00 AM
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