[NZerFromHK]

The current Liberal Democratic Party is an extremely unworthy successor to the historically great Liberal Party of Britain (and Whigs prior to that). The likes of Charles Kennedy are dwarfs when compared with figures like Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Melbourne, or Lord Palmerston.

[MadIvan]

We ought to hook up a turbine to Gladstone's grave to capture the power from his rotations - the man who was in favour of free trade and capitalism as a vehicle of progress would be horrified by the modern Liberal Party.

Regards, Ivan

[snugs]

Amen to that I wonder where the true Liberals in the British sense of the word are and what they think about what has happened to their party. Then they should never have let the SDP join them but I think fear was the reason they saw their once great party going out of existence but would that have been the more honourable route to have gone.