johnloony
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Post by johnloony on Apr 18, 2024 20:43:07 GMT
I didn’t know who she is, but anyway Wikipedia days that she was married to David Cameron from 1999 to 2006 Zali Steggall is the Independent MP for the Australian division of Warringah and she gained this seat from Tony Abbott, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. The David Cameron she was married to by the way is David Allan Cameron, a rower, not the British one. Yes I know all of that because I’m not a smelly purple walrus.
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Post by rcronald on Apr 20, 2024 15:13:43 GMT
It’s interesting how the Liberal Party is the main left wing party in Canada but the main right wing one in Australia Then there's the Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party, which was the first politial allegiance of Ian Smith before the Rhodesian Front were founded, and the Liberal Democrats in Russia (Zhirinovsky's mob). The Liberal Party of Israel was a predecessor party of Likud. Liberalism is such a multifaceted ideology, that both nationalists,internationalists, drys, and social democrats can theoretically identify as such, as long as their main ideology is not socially conservative. In Israel, I suspect that more than 2/3rds of the population identifies as liberal (L or l), but the % of Israelis who’d qualify as LibDem style liberals (economically centrist, socially progressive, and internationalist) is probably closer to 7.5%. Edit: Israel does have a decent amount of people who are ideologically close to a (somewhat significantly) less internationalist version of Orange Book Liberals, but they don’t seem to really exist anymore in the LibDems party.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 20, 2024 15:47:41 GMT
Then there's the Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party, which was the first politial allegiance of Ian Smith before the Rhodesian Front were founded, and the Liberal Democrats in Russia (Zhirinovsky's mob). The Liberal Party of Israel was a predecessor party of Likud. Liberalism is such a multifaceted ideology, that both nationalists,internationalists, drys, and social democrats can theoretically identify as such, as long as their main ideology is not socially conservative. In Israel, I suspect that more than 2/3rds of the population identifies as liberal (L or l), but the % of Israelis who’d qualify as LibDem style liberals (economically centrist, socially progressive, and internationalist) is probably closer to 7.5%. Edit: Israel does have a decent amount of people who are ideologically close to a (somewhat significantly) less internationalist version of Orange Book Liberals, but they don’t seem to really exist anymore in the LibDems party. I think it's pretty generous calling liberalism an ideology. It's a pretty generic term which could easily be applied to almost any form of political belief, as all forms of politics are about giving some element within society the power and freedom to decide how to run their lives. When we talk about 'liberal democracies' we're simply making the assumption that means freedom of the individual, but there are also plenty of groups within society which make decisions collectively for all their membership and who would also consider having that power as being part of a liberal nation.
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Post by markgoodair on May 16, 2024 8:20:08 GMT
Cllr Josie Radcliffe has been selected as the Liberal Democrat PPC.
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Post by right on May 16, 2024 11:10:25 GMT
Cllr Josie Radcliffe has been selected as the Liberal Democrat PPC. Apart from being local, that looks like a candidate designed to get Lib Dem voters to vote for Bagge
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 16, 2024 21:44:10 GMT
Cllr Josie Radcliffe has been selected as the Liberal Democrat PPC. Apart from being local, that looks like a candidate designed to get Lib Dem voters to vote for Bagge Absolute nonsense. "Middle-aged woman who is a local councillor" is not a type of candidate designed to repel Lib Dem voters.
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