As part of our ongoing top political blogger profile Total Politics interviews Chris Mounsey, aka The Devil. He speaks to us about the need for minimal state interference, career politicians and why he's a fan of expletives.

Your blog is rather controversial. Would you advise other bloggers to be the same?

Writers should write about what they feel most about. If you can't be controversial on a blog though you are going to end up pretty frustrated.

Some of your language has got you into a bit of trouble. Where do you draw the line now?

I think, strictly speaking, I draw the editorial line on elaborate death fantasies. Those aren't going in anymore. The occasional swearing is fine. Those are the sort of things I am moving away from currently. I think a lot of people are disappointed. But what can you say?

You founded the Libertarian Party, why is Libertarianism not as popular as you would like it to be?

People at heart are libertarian as in they'd like people to leave them the hell alone. But they are less inclined to leave other people the hell alone. It's the whole community thing — they want the state off their back but they're generally happy to pry into other people's gardens. They haven't quite broken out of the circle.

If you had to vote for any other party which would it be and why?

It would probably be the Conservative Party. I toyed with the Lib Dems. If the Lib Dems consisted of Orange Bookers then I'd probably vote for them. If I were to vote for a political party because they have more chance of winning (which is, after all, what a large number of people vote for), I'd probably vote for the Conservatives. But the coalition has thrown all of that into a new perspective hasn't it?

Are you a fan of it?

They seem to be heading in the right direction. I'm quite a big fan of Pickles because he seems to be cutting things left, right and centre.

Being a libertarian and yet having a party, isn't that a bit of a conflict of ideology?

The five of us, when we started, had big debates about whether we should be a party in the first place. It certainly comes up. Are we legitimising the current system? If we want to change things then we have to work within the current system. I also don't see a problem with people voluntarily coming together to form interest groups and a political party is just that. We're not really forcing people to do so.

The tagline to you blog is: "Filleting the extensive lies of the political classes...". What are the political classes?

That was a throwaway tag line there. The political classes are those people who have done little else than work in politics.

Career politicians?

Yes but more than that. Those people like Jack Straw who went from the NUS, worked for an MP and then became an MP - those who haven't had a massively distinguished career doing anything else really. It's difficult for anyone to have a perspective on life when they spend all their time in the Westminster bubble.

Political idol?

Adam Smith.

Political villain?

Gordon Brown.

Favourite blogger?

Tim Worstall.

Least favourite?

The entire left blogosphere. Sunny Hundal [especially].