Sound money advocate and Conservative Party MP for Wycombe Steve Baker lost his seat in the general election that took place on 4th July–curious timing for a sitting Prime Minister to have called an election his party was always near-certain to lose. As Americans were celebrating Independence Day, the remnant Brits opposed to the government meddling in every aspect of their lives were bracing for a prime minister who describes himself as a socialist–and thinks that sits comfortably with the platitude of “putting the country first.”That is not to say that the remnant had been enjoying anything close to a bearably innocuous level of government. In a short list of memorable and more recent highlights from a long list of offences (they entered power in 2010), the outgoing Conservative
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