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labour doesn't surprise me one bit. but i am surprised by the liberal democrats. i don't really understand why they keep calling themselves "liberal" when for
by kmlx 3y ago
labour doesn't surprise me one bit.
but i am surprised by the liberal democrats. i don't really understand why they keep calling themselves "liberal" when for the past years they have been anything but liberal.
- effie 3y ago> However, you should know that this [liberal democracy] has precisely nothing to do with the Liberal Democrats in the UK. The Liberal Democrats are so named because they're the result of a merger between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. The best combination of the names was "Liberal Democrats." -- cpast https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/7812 https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/7812
- mrbungie 3y agoThat's a meme in politics, the words in party names have nothing to do with the ideas they commonly represent. Names in this space just work according to the "laws" of marketing.
- tremon 3y agoThe term liberal is only a magnitude, it's not a vector. In common parlance, people understand it to mean social liberalism, i.e. a proponent of personal freedoms; but in most parties, it's much more likely to refer to economic liberalism, i.e. laissez-faire market policies. That said, I don't know enough about the UK's political parties to know along what axis the Lib Dems consider themselves to be "liberal".