Our politics is broken, and so much of our public discorse is debased with the protagonists – even at the highest levels of our political parties – choosing to throw abuse around rather than debate the issues. Challenges to policy positions are non-existent. Instead, opponents are dismissed because they are left-wing, right-wing, or “woke” – whatever that means.
This blog has been created to start a debate about the issues that effect you and me – the people of the United Kingdom. We are less than 12 months away from a General Election. This blog is not party political and will seek to provide space for an open discussion about the issues and, who knows, creating a “people’s manifesto”.
Why “Cave of Lilliputia”? All the obvious names for a political website are either taken or suggest a particular political stance. So something different was needed.
Today, the proceedings of the UK Parliament are broadcast live on the Internet and a dedicated BBC television channel. But in the 18th Century it was considered unlawful to report what happened in the Parliamentary chamber. In 1732, a writer, Edward Cave, began publishing The Gentelemen’s Magazine. One of its regular features was “The Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia“. It was an ingenious way of getting around Parliamentary censorship, reporting not on the proceedings in Westminster but of the factual land of Magna Lilliputia. But people were left in no doubt what was being reported on, through the use of very thinly disguised names: it didn’t take much inteligence to work out that “Sr. R―t W―le” was a reference to Sir Robert Walpole.
And from this, we get Cave of Lilliputia.
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