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Is this really something the continuity Liberals want to boast about. I suspect Paul did it to annoy his former colleagues in Cornwall.
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Yes, we're quite proud of the fact that we're doing well in the South West and won a seat on Cornwall County Council in a by-election. Shouldn't we be?
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Inconvenient truths are simply air-brushed out of history in a Stalinist fashion!
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I'm peering closely at the photos on the website but haven't yet been able to spot any tell-tale signs of Photoshop work. Care to elaborate?
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Originally Posted by Dilke
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.
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I haven't looked up the figures, but I imagine you mean 88%
of those who voted? In any case, does it matter? Those who wanted to merge with the Social Democrats went ahead and did so, and formed the LibDems of today. Those who didn't want to merge carried on the old party as best they could. What's the beef?
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Somebody needs to take some history lesions;
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History lesions? That's wounding!
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Wilberforce….[/i] When was Wilberforce a Liberal or even a Whig?
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I don't regard Wilberforce's political allegiances as a terribly pressing issue in deciding which party I should support. However, out of purely academic interest I browsed the relevant article on Wikipedia (where else?) and was surprised by the results. I'm sure I've read articles in which Tories claimed that Wilberforce was a Tory. However, the Wiki piece makes clear that he was an independent MP. He was a close friend of Pitt, and once acted as a sort of external supporter of Pitt's government (maybe this is where the 'Tory' idea comes from). However, later, after Pitt's death, he was much closer to Fox and the Whigs, mainly because Fox actively opposed the slave trade.
You seem to have us Liberals down as a bunch of nostalgics. I support the party not because I think it is the one true successor to the party of Gladstone etc, but because I think it has better policies than any other party including the LibDems.