Sentences with phrase «social democratic tradition»

Protest about the price of education was reserved for those countries still clinging to a naïve social democratic tradition.

I read an excellent piece by a Scottish academic in a recent New Statesman and he argued well that Scotland had quite a social democratic tradition but that Scottish Labour Party deserted this swallowing New Labour hook, line and sinker so the SNP were happy to fill a popular void.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.

The Liberal Democrat party, as the name suggests, has from its inception been ideologically torn between the progressivism of the social democratic tradition and the aspiration of traditional liberalism.

Not exact matches

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

In the Calvinist tradition this was first coupled with the attempt to create a form of theocratic society in Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationships.

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

Uncle Petie I hope LibDems (especially those with an instinct for either social democratic or LibDem traditions) would not take the view that «more egalitarian reformed (liberal) market outcomes» will make redistribution unnecessary.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

The Social Democratic Federation was a founding participant, and the tradition has since passed through the Independent Labour Party, the British Socialist Party, Cripps, Laski, Bevan and Benn, right through to current iterations such as Labour Briefing and the Labour Representation Committee.

This is forcing the party to reconsider its knee - jerk commitment to a social - democratic cosmopolitanism and consider ways in which the living traditions of really existing communities in real places can be mobilised in order to empower themselves.

Although the Liberal party was quite marginal for most of the century, the tradition also had some support within the Labour party and, in the 1980s, the Social Democratic Party.

President Muhammadu Buhari maintained his stand point on the brouhaha associated with the anti social media bill being sponsored by the Senate as he says his administration remains committed to the protection of free speech in keeping with democratic tradition.

It is part of a long established tradition of social realism, which maintains a close connection between the camera's unguarded eye and the democratic imperative to look directly at life, including the unsavory and the unseen, in a specific and unidealized way.

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon... [more]

«As a result, he overlooked Canada's democratic tradition and the importance of the social contract between Canada's electorate and Parliament.»

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon.