Given that most Lib Dem MPs after the election will be on
the social liberal side, and most of the members are too, and given the democratic nature of the party organisation it would not be surprising if they undermine their leader on these issues.
The members also remain more on
the social liberal side.
Not exact matches
The
liberal side puts this in the same broad category of other
social - welfare programs.
Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious
social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue
side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised
Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.
The former view, one that accepts the
social contract theory, leads to a hyper «individualism that, on the
liberal side, fetishizes free speech and subscribes to a «do your own thing» morality, and, on the conservative
side, is reflected in libertarian economics, as in Margaret Thatcher's famous (or notorious?)
A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious
liberals and religious conservatives, the two
sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on
social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.
what
side of
social justice have
liberals been on the wrong
side of?
With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has
sided with
social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and
liberals.
While Kingson said he hopes his support for
Social Security will allow him to make inroads with older voters and other groups, operatives on both
sides said he might be too
liberal for the district.
I self - identify as both an economic and
social liberal — but if we were States -
side I would just as happily self - identify as a fiscal conservative and
social liberal.
[59][60] Political commentators identified Clegg's leadership as promoting a shift to the radical centre in the
Liberal Democrats, bringing more emphasis to the economically liberal side of social libe
Liberal Democrats, bringing more emphasis to the economically
liberal side of social libe
liberal side of
social liberalism.
Littlewood until now led the Orange Book pressure group
Liberal Vision, a classical liberal thorn in the side of social democrats within the L
Liberal Vision, a classical
liberal thorn in the side of social democrats within the L
liberal thorn in the
side of
social democrats within the LibDems.
But on the positive
side, Swedish laws and
social amenities are also very
liberal, for example, partners can easily get a work permit and families are entitled to child allowances.
A group of researchers, as part of a
social experiment, paid
liberals and conservatives on Twitter to follow a bot for a month that tweeted political views from the other
side.
All it takes is the retirement of one blogger — namely, Andrew Sullivan, founder of The Daily Dish and long - time thorn in the
side of the
liberal blogosphere — and the
social web explodes with a mixture of praise, recriminations, eulogies for the death of blogging as we know it, and righteous indignation about whether he was one of the first or not.