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Jo Swinson’s Liberal landslide
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Jo Swinson’s Liberal landslide

Jo Swinson was elected leader of the Liberal Democrats on Monday. She took more than 47,000 votes while her rival Ed Davey secured 28,000.
23 July 2019
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Socialist Review Archive

New spin on same old story

Ken Olende demolishes the new arguments put forward by liberal commentators about the "dangers" of immigration, and the intellectual cover they give to right wing ideas over race.
06 February 2014
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How did the Cyril Smith MP abuse dossier go missing?

Did the security services cover up for a child-abusing MP? Tony Robinson was a special branch cop in the 1970s. He said he saw a police dossier "thick" with allegations from boys claiming they had been abused by Cyril Smith, the former Liberal MP for Rochdale.
20 November 2012
Lib Dem conference in land of political make-believe
The Troublemaker

Lib Dem conference in land of political make-believe

Imagine for a moment being a Liberal Democrat. No wait, come back—you can scrub yourself later.
25 September 2012
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What We Think

Muslims have reason to be angry

The world’s liberal press has gone into overdrive attacking Muslims for protesting against an anti-Islam film.
18 September 2012
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Background Check

Both coalition parties are haemorrhaging members

The coalition has a hidden crisis. The membership of both its parties is in freefall. The Liberal Democrats have lost a quarter of their members in just one year.
14 August 2012
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What We Think

Drop the dead Liberals

The Liberal Democrats’ vote crashed in local elections this month. Their candidates lost their deposits in several seats—as well as in the high-profile London mayoral election.
22 May 2012
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Comment

Right plots attack on abortion rights

There is a propaganda campaign underway over abortion access in Britain. Right wing bigots are trying to create the impression that the law is too liberal and access to abortion is too easy.
28 February 2012
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Lib Dem donor Michael Brown gets nicked

The Liberal Democrats’ biggest ever donor has been arrested while on the run dodging a seven-year jail sentence for fraud. Michael Brown bankrolled the party’s lies with £2.4 million of stolen money.
10 January 2012
Birmingham council strikers rain on Clegg’s parade
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Birmingham council strikers rain on Clegg’s parade

Striking Birmingham council workers took their fight to the Liberal Democrats today (Wednesday)—on the day of Nick Clegg’s keynote speech defending cuts.
21 September 2011
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International

Danes take left turn against cuts

The centre-left "red bloc" narrowly won Denmark’s election last week—throwing out a decade-long Liberal government propped up by the far right Danish People’s Party.
20 September 2011
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Lib Dems’ rhetoric can’t hide their hypocrisy

The lying Liberal Democrats were desperate to wear their "left" mask as they met for their conference this week. Axe-wielding Lib Dem ministers ratcheted up the rhetoric.
20 September 2011
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David Steel faces lobby questions

Former Liberal Party leader David Steel was hired to lobby on behalf of a businessman who is now under investigation for allegations of corruption.
23 August 2011
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What We Think

Chris Huhne frames pictures of himself and takes our money

Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat environment minister, states clearly that he did not ask someone to fiddle his speeding penalty points. Perhaps.
17 May 2011
Bring down the coalition
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Bring down the coalition

The Tories and the Liberal Democrats dreaded voters giving them a hammering in this week’s elections for their vicious attacks on working people over the past year.
03 May 2011
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Comment

Fighting homophopia: Attacking one form of bigotry with another is a dead end

It was shocking to read the response of liberal gay journalist Johann Hari to the recent appearance of "gay free zone" stickers carrying slogans from the Koran in Tower Hamlets, east London.
02 March 2011
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March for education on 10 November

Many students will have been shocked to see that the Liberal Democrats leaders have abandoned their pledge to oppose a rise in tuition fees.
12 October 2010
Lib Dem conference: Thousands protest at the Tories’ friends
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Lib Dem conference: Thousands protest at the Tories’ friends

Around 2,000 protesters marched on the Liberal Democrats’ conference in Liverpool last Sunday.
21 September 2010
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What We Think

We need to crush, not cuddle, Lib Dems

"There were some people, particularly around the height of the Iraq war, who gave up on the Labour Party and turned to the Liberal Democrats," said Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg last week at his party’s conference.
21 September 2010
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International

Voters reject government neoliberalism in Japan’s Upper house elections

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DJP), whose election last year ended a 50 year dominance by the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), lost control of the upper house of Parliament in last Sunday’s election. The DJP lost because it had gone back on promises to remove US military bases and create a fairer society.
13 July 2010
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Alex Callinicos

Class rule hiding behind austerity

We live, we are constantly told, in a liberal pluralist society. Unlike the totalitarian states of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, information and ideas aren’t monolithically controlled from above in these societies.
15 June 2010
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Letters

Letters

I can’t stay Lib Dem after deal with Tories I’ve been forced to cancel my membership of the Liberal Democrats after almost five years because I cannot support a coalition with the Tories.
18 May 2010
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What We Think

Labour must feel heat from the unions

Gordon Brown’s notice of resignation was a last-ditch attempt to enable the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition with Labour and keep his party in government. It presents many questions to trade union leaders.
11 May 2010
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Just who are the Liberal Democrats?

The leaders’ television debates have thrown the election into chaos.
27 April 2010