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The #LibDemFightback – from a newbie’s perspective

I, like 20,000 others, was inspired by Nick Clegg’s resignation speech on the 8th of May.

Fear and grievance have won. Liberalism has lost. But it is more precious than ever and we must keep fighting for it.

A month later, I became a Liberal Democrat.

Posted in Op-eds | 15 Comments
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  • Jonathan Parry
    This is an interesting article. One Nation Toryism never got going until the demise of the Liberals in the 1920s (Disraeli certainly never practised it). To t...
  • Peter Davies
    In Latin it may be a gerund but in English it's a noun. If I were to object to the Government's referending of the public, that would be a gerund....
  • Alex Macfie
    Except that "referendum" is not a Latin 2nd Declension Neuter noun. It's a gerundive; as such it is used in English differently from Latin so should take an Eng...
  • PM
    @ PM, It can be either. I do remember from my schooldays that the plural in Latin involved replacing the 'um' of a neuter noun by an 'a'. I must have managed...
  • Alex Macfie
    It's "referendums"....