In more complex cases, one might find that the accounts of ‘shared’ identity and values that emerge from such attempts at self-understanding are markedly diverse and highly contested, so that decisions then have to be made about which of these is to be adopted as the basis for evaluating the different kinds of capitalism at issue. As an example, consider what might be seen as the institutional transition from a coordinated to a liberal market economy in the UK during the 1980s. A notable feature of the political rhetoric supporting this transformation was the appeal to supposedly long-standing British values of individual enterprise, self-help and responsibility, to the ‘Victorian values’ from which the nation had been led astray during the post-WW2 period of welfare dependency and collectivism. In response, however, critics argued that ‘Victorian values’ would better be interpreted as those underlying the provision of public goods, the rise of mutual societies and the growth of professionalism, and that the post-WW2 welfare state expressed a deeply rooted sense of social solidarity

For example, it never occurs to the conservative that there is any doubt that he owns the property he has bought and paid for, or that he isn't free to marry and found a family, or bring up his children as he wishes. These are absolute things, which existed before there ever was a state, and the state shouldn't encroach on them. It should also defend them against outside threats, or it has no 'right' or rather reason, to exist.

But the liberal libertarian ( who is in fact a power-worshipper who thinks the state is the embodiment of his own human goodness) wants there to be a 'right' , issued by the state, to private property , to marry, to found a family. He also often speaks of a bizarre thing called a 'right to life' which is mainly an excuse to ban the death penalty for murderers, and certainly doesn't save unborn babies from selfish abortions.

‘trendy, bohemian and posh’ Kelvinbridge area of Glasgow voted ‘Yes’ to AV (and in this respect it was similar to the other places across the UK which voted ‘Yes’ too).

So it strikes me that a full set of AV Referendum results could serve as a useful map for identifying every single Eddie Izzard-style , gentrified former working-class area in Britain which now contains a majority of middle-class, Banksy-loving c**ts who’ve successfully ousted the original inhabitants (mercifully still quite small in number it appears).

If it could, then all the cash wasted to indulge the Lib Dem’s pathetic vanity project has turned out to be money well worth after all, I’d say.