Liberals, too, want to leave the European Union.

It is not necessarily right-wing to want to leave the EU. Right-wing UKIP is not the only political party committed to that. The continuation-true Liberal Party which, unlike the EU-fanatic Liberal Democrats, rightly opposed giving up the pound for the euro, would also leave the EU’s bureaucratic rule from Brussels and its “ever closer union”, given likely resistance to adequate reform from within. The Liberal Party, whose traditional constitution demands “liberty, property and security” for all, calls for a more socially-just society, where progressive taxation of the receipt of gifted and inherited wealth finances a citizen’s inheritance for young United Kingdom-born UK adult citizens and claws it back eventually from those receiving larger lifetime totals.

We want a dynamic society with more small businesses created, more home-ownership and real investment in human capital for all, improving the NHS and state schools relative to private health and education, including vital sporting facilities, by extending VAT from ordinary spending by all of us, rich or poor, to such luxury private spending by the better off, naturally including non-residents. These radical progressive Liberal Party policies for greater equality of opportunity in health, education and the inheritance of wealth in the UK would help make genuine sense of mealy-mouthed calls from other political parties for an ‘opportunity society’ and a property-owning democracy.

By contrast, UKIP’s response to vast inequalities of opportunity and wealth in our still dynastic capitalist country, in which some receive billions in lifetime gifts or inheritance free of tax while others receive or inherit no capital at all, is to call for the abolition of inheritance tax altogether. Now that is right-wing. UKIP are right to want to leave the EU but not to want an ever more unequal UK. Dane Clouston Organiser, Oxfordshire Liberal Party and NEC member Stadhampton