THE FREEDOM ASSOCIATION

'The Freedom Association' is a free market libertarian pressure group pledged to support individual freedom in the United Kingdom. It has seven core principles:

★ Individual Freedom

★ Personal and Family Responsibility

★ The Rule of Law

★ Limited Government

★ Free Market Economy

★ National Parliamentary Democracy

★ Strong National Defences
It was founded as the 'National Association for Freedom' in 1975, by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet ^[1] It became The Freedom Association (TFA) in 1980. It produces a bi-monthly magazine, ''Freedom Today''.
The group's Honorary President was for many years the late Norris McWhirter. The former Conservative MP Christopher Gill is the current Hon. President; Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is Vice-President; Roger Helmer, the Conservative MEP, is the Hon. Chairman; and Professor Antony Flew, the philosopher, serves on TFA's management committee. Its Council Members include Sir Rhodes Boyson, Gerald Howarth MP and former MP Teresa Gorman^[2].

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Campaigning

References

External links

Campaigning

The Freedom Association was involved in numerous anti-trade union actions in the run up to the election of Margaret Thatcher, including ''Operation Pony Express'' during the Grunwick dispute.
More recently, the Association has campaigned against ID cards and the EU, in defence of free speech (e.g. during the Mohammad cartoons controversy) and civil liberties.
In April 2006 The Freedom Association launched Better Off Out, a new mainstream campaign to leave the EU, which has so far attracted the support of a number of MPs, MEPs and Peers ^[3].

References

1. http://www.tfa.net/pdfs/his01.PDF
2. http://www.tfa.net/abo01.htm
3. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/27/ntory27.xml

External links

★ The Freedom Association

★ Better Off Out

★ Article by TFA Campaign Manager on EU integration from the ConservativeHome website