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Opinion: We Must Stand for Something

Stephen Tall has written a salient piece on LDV, What must happen for the Lib Dems to overtake Labour? The question posed is not as unrealistic as it may sound. The Liberal Democrats, I believe, can be the main party of opposition within the next ten to fifteen years.

Stephen is right in his assessment that in the foreseeable future the only possible party that we can replace is the Labour Party, and his analysis that Labour has abandoned any commitment to a socialist ideology is so very obvious, that the primary reason for the existence of a …

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