Is this really something the continuity Liberals want to boast about. I suspect Paul did it to annoy his former colleagues in Cornwall.
Inconvenient truths are simply air-brushed out of history in a Stalinist fashion! The site indulges in a great deal of double-think. At least the Liberal Party’s national website admits the majority of Liberals, 88% voted for merger. Trying to pretend merger didn’t happen on the Cornish site is just silly.
Somebody needs to take some history lesions; (sic) The Liberal Party is the same party of Fox, Wilberforce…. When was Wilberforce a Liberal or even a Whig? The Kings party were Liberals! It is a surprise to me to see mention of a Northern Ireland Liberal Party, are they registered with the Electoral Commission ? Have they contested any elections? What’s their view of the LI affiliated Alliance Party?
In 1989 a few joined the con Libs for policy reason, you may disagree with them but you can’t argue that they aren’t real Liberals, most including Michael Meadowcroft are back in the Liberal Democrats and the party is the stronger for it. Many joined to embark on a pilgrimage of nostalgia, creating a heritage site of a political party, relegating Liberalism to a cherished relic of a bygone age, Paul I guess is one of them.
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