One of the little snippets in the Sunday heavies is that the Lib Dems are going to have a 'rebranding' exercise after the local elections (I wonder why ?)
They are apparently going to re-introduce the word 'SOCIAL' in their title. I have been fairly consistent in calling this party 'Social Democrats' since before the LPUK was formed, because they are a Social Democratic party on historic fabian lines. They believe in massive State intervention and were spawned out of the Labour Party. The hijacking of the word 'Liberal' was a travesty, and an attempt at trying to get get some legitimacy. Twenty five years on they are planning to dump Liberalism.
About time.
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What erks me is people claiming that the social-democratic element of the Lib Dems is due to the SDP. In fact the pre-SDP Liberals were also social democratic. Lloyd-George, Beveridge, Keynes etc. And just read their post-war manifestos.
This is going to be the downfall of Nick Clegg and the LDs.Good thing too. The UK is surely in a muddle.
I hope they change the party's name too.
I suspect the party will be rebranding but if there is a name change it is more likely to be a return to the Liberal party. I am not quite sure that Lloyd George and Beveridge were social democrats. They might not have been classical liberals and may have sown the seeds for social democracy but that is different from being Fabians.
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