scottdisco
rip this joint please
apologies for starting a deeply parochial, inchoate mess of a post but what is going on here?
Clegg with his vision to stake out the party's turf as the new progressive wing of British politics: what does anyone think about that? just conference season talk on the one hand, yes, but on the other, they'll never have a better time to put more distance between themselves and Labour and the Tories.
can someone who follows British politics explain if there is any likelihood of an LD schism in the future between the classical liberals in their ranks and the social liberals?
granted, all Tories, some Labour, and all LDs have opposed much of the Blair/Brown social authoritarianism/paternalism of recent years, but just because all LDs make the right noises about libel laws, protest and privacy, it doesn't follow that the more classical liberal branch of their ranks is going to follow the social democrats leftwards.
also Vince Cable is i'm sure a fine human being, certainly seems a nice chap, and can string together a coherent, non-repellant sentence - which is more than most major British politicians - but he only looks so attractive because everyone else is Ed Balls or George Osborne. interesting he started off Labour.
sorry to make such an obvious point but he is getting sacred cow status for me (i even put this in that thread in the Music section!). hope this doesn't sound overly sectarian but realise it may.
Clegg with his vision to stake out the party's turf as the new progressive wing of British politics: what does anyone think about that? just conference season talk on the one hand, yes, but on the other, they'll never have a better time to put more distance between themselves and Labour and the Tories.
can someone who follows British politics explain if there is any likelihood of an LD schism in the future between the classical liberals in their ranks and the social liberals?
granted, all Tories, some Labour, and all LDs have opposed much of the Blair/Brown social authoritarianism/paternalism of recent years, but just because all LDs make the right noises about libel laws, protest and privacy, it doesn't follow that the more classical liberal branch of their ranks is going to follow the social democrats leftwards.
also Vince Cable is i'm sure a fine human being, certainly seems a nice chap, and can string together a coherent, non-repellant sentence - which is more than most major British politicians - but he only looks so attractive because everyone else is Ed Balls or George Osborne. interesting he started off Labour.
sorry to make such an obvious point but he is getting sacred cow status for me (i even put this in that thread in the Music section!). hope this doesn't sound overly sectarian but realise it may.
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