The Telegraph asked members at our recent Liverpool conference to sum up the Liberal Democrats in one word. Here is the video they made which features, among others, Paddy Ashdown, the LDDA’s Gemma Roulston, Scarborough PPC Mike Beckett, Hinckley and Bosworth PPC Michael Mullaney and Ealing’s Joanna Dugdale. What would your word be? Mine would be radical to reflect that we are anti-establishment reformers at heart.
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‘Dreamers’.
And you can take that positively or negatively, depending on where you stand.
Freedom.
http://libdemsbelieve.tumblr.com/
Untrustworthy.
Freedom is the best single word – and what we mean by it is explained by the words of the constitution of the Liberal Party that I joined when it stays that “no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity”
Duplicitous.
This week my guess is that Liberal Democrats fall into two camps.
The first who have been busy campaigning for weeks and months would probably be described by the word –
“Exhausted”.
The second group – who don’t conform to the views set out in The Economist interview this week – would probably best be described as –
“Dissillusioned”.
Liberal.
Freedom
Ah, another word that can be used in a positive or negative sense to mean different things.
Devolutionists
Outmanoeuvred
Hopeful.
Impractical.
LIBERAL!
Irrelevant.
So irrelevant you apparently sought out this website to express that.
Disappointing.
I’ve been here for some time. I find it instructive to visit all the party websites. I don’t usually bother commenting on ConservativeHome or LabourList, but do here. Maybe I hope for Liberals to recover. Unfortunately, the only way you can is if your upper hierarchy is destroyed so that line members can sift through the ash and chart a new, better, more liberal future.
Or so I hope. We need liberals. But the LibDems are now irrelevant to liberalism in this country. And to the wider political debate.
Resilient.
much-maligned
optimistic (“we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake”)
brave!
Lost
BTW this thread wasn’t a good idea.
divided.
I am shocked to find that certain colleagues haven’t posted ‘TTIP’ or ‘Heathrow’ !!!
They got me – famous for about 2 seconds! 🙂
Bidirectional
Equidistant.
Stevan Rose 7th Apr ’15 – 10:30pm
“Equidistant.”
Aargh!
Underestimated.
It winds me up. Commentators from the left and the right are writing off the Lib Dems, not because it is accurate commentary, but because they wish it to be true.
Just reading a Spectator liveblog about the Scottish leader’s debate and they are sneering at us. As many do. But they are wrong to underestimate us and appear to have short memories.
Feisty.
“Peter Watson 7th Apr ’15 – 10:23pm
Bidirectional”
I think I would go with that also, yes. I suppose the question also hinged in whether we are discussing the Liberal Democrats as a group (eg: the voters, members, campaigners, etc) or the Liberal Democrats as a party (Clegg and friends, etc).
As a lifelong Lib Dem voter, my one word for the party under Clegg is “underwhelming”
@Alex Sabine “Resilient.”
Nick Clegg, is that you?
Untrustworthy.
Bottle
Change
Service
Rational
Watching ………………….the spivs who invade our party because it is open – not like theirs !
@Stephen Hesketh.
Knew you’d like that one!
Back with another one … as uttered several times by John Pugh during a meeting this evening … Fairness!
Personal, political, social and economic Liberalism should all be fair.
If these areas are not all fair, whatever it is, it certainly isn’t the authentic preamble Liberalism this party seeks to uphold and extend.
I commend ‘Fairness’ to the LDV forum.
I’ll stick with… “People”
BTW the seat i’m standing in is Scarborough and Whitby although I like to include the Esk Valley as its in the seat too!
Warm regards
Mike Beckett