I dunno what’s good for getting egg off, either…

Srsly, I’m not joining, I’ve said this lots, I just think it’s important to show interest in one’s fiancé’s hobbies

LOL we’ve never met, love, I’m just Mat’s annoying fiancée. Trolling LDV is something of a hobby at the moment; he spends so much time here I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about.

Sleep tight :X

I is cunning like that y’see…

Must go to bed!!

:@)))

Awwwww, that means I’ll have to look over his shoulder to read it!

Yes but we could call ourselves ‘The Liberals’ or ‘The Radicals’. I think that would get us an enormous amount of attention – should we take this to the members forum Mat? If so I will post tomorrow afternoon…:@)

If the remaining members voted to merge with us, then it would be more politically expedient, but unless they do or wrap up the organisation it’s actually not possible regardless.

If the political climate were different, then yes, but it currently isn’t. The Liberal Party of old lost the bulk of it’s support in the early 20th Century, we’re a different party, with different traditions, that the majority of both the ancestor parties voted to form.

Anon @ 8, it’s not a conservative argument to look to the future of this party rather than look to the past. I’d love to feel we could legitimately claim the mantle of the party of Gladstone and Campbell Bannerman. But until that’s a legitimate claim (ie we’ve got back the Whigs currently in the Conservative and Unionist party and persuaded the Radicals to dump the Labour and Co-operative Party) it’s something I don’t think makes sense.

But we lobbied for the law change, we’ve worked hard to get the Lib Dem brand accepted, and we’re campaigning for a renewal of British democracy. Until we’ve got STV, the Democrats part of the title is essential. In my opinion.

For example, if you go and work for orange or support Bristol Rovers, would you resign if they called themselves ‘yellow’ or stop supporting the rovers if they called themselves just Bristol?

http://www.liberal.org.uk/

So those, who once joined the Liberal Party, are at least entitled to argue that the party should be called the Liberal Party, because that’s the political party they joined?

How is it in general possible that a party called the “Liberal Democrats” can exist, if any proporal for a change can be shot down with such a conservative argument?

I think we should be called the Liberal Democrats, that’s the political party I joined. The old Liberal party was a parliamentary party made up of a broad church coalition including Whigs, Liberals and Radicals, get them back and we can have the parliamentary Liberal party without having to fuss around with silly name changes or new mergers. Would require STV to work naturally…

*shuffles feet, blushes, leaves room*

(thanks, though. I had Islands In The Stream in my head after reading Something for the Weekend and now it’s the much more acceptable We’re ‘Avin’ a Gang Bang )

;@)