What is it we are fighting for ?

Time for a rant, thinks Dr Helen Szamuely. It is time to ask ourselves, what it is we are fighting for? Not against, but for.
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So, let the debate begin. Here is the opening (prolonged) salvo.

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And next. Do we want politicians of principle? Who could deny that Edmund Burke was a politician of integrity and principle? Well, actually, quite a lot of people do, his personality being capable of exciting screams of frustration 210 years after his death.

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Nevertheless, his words, quoted in the excellent posting (where Helen is at her very very best) seem a good discussion point when trying to resolve that vexing question: what is a politician of principle and do we really want them?