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by Daniel Wood, Chair of the Liberal Party Policy and Assembly Committee. We in the Liberal Party are disappointed but not surprised by the path followed by some of our former colleagues in the ‘Liberal’ Democrats in entering into a coalition with the Conservative Party. The voice of liberalism, which has long been muted in the ‘LibDems’ has now finally been silenced, as the LibDems choose to prop up a half baked (and electorally unsuccessful) Conservative Government. In so doing they have turned their back on any claim to be the voice of liberalism. They have chosen to support the party of privilege and patronage over liberty and equality. They have treated with contempt the voters who chose to vote LibDem in direct rejection of the Conservative agenda. They have disowned those who made a positive choice to vote LibDem in order to see their policies implemented. They have betrayed the party workers who have worked hard promote the centre left of politics by rushing to the rescue of the political right. We in the Liberal Party are resolved to maintain a Liberal voice in British politics. We will have to shout a bit louder now. We have resolved not to do deals with socialists or Tories but to maintain our liberalism. As our 2010 manifesto stated:- ‘All of the major political parties reflect, to a greater or lesser extent some degree of liberalism, after all we live in a LIBERAL democracy. Such a reflection is insufficient for liberalism to be effective. Liberalism should not be diluted, it needs to be applied on a broad front to the whole spectrum of problems facing the individual, the nation and the world today. We need the substance of liberalism, not the reflection. The Liberal Party aims to provide that substance.’ We invite liberals in all parties and none to join with us in our fight for a liberal society; to help us inform the political debate with Liberal policies, Liberal philosophy and Liberal solutions. We want to help create a liberal society in which every citizen shall possess liberty, property and security, and none shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. We do not want to live in ‘Con – Dem – Nation’
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