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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde
I'm UKIP and Classical Liberal.
Not sure why social liberal is listed as a separate category. Anyone who is a classical liberal/libertarian is surely automatically a social liberal as well. Or is the social liberal option in this poll meant to be for those people who are social liberals but NOT economic liberals?
Anyway, better to be a social liberal than an anti-social one, I suppose. Mine's a pint.
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The Social Liberal originates from when the Liberal Party under Hebert Asquith and Lloyd George moved beyond just the defence of Liberty and low taxation as under Gladstone and on to creating the Welfare state i.e. unemployment benefit, old age pensions etc.
The Liberal Democrats and Tony Blair’s Labour are Social Liberals.
Capitalism combined with welfarism.
Most European countries under the PR system have Social Liberal parties and Classical Liberal parties.