{"id":2074,"date":"2005-05-06T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-06T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T07:02:22","slug":"real-liberalism-resurging-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/06\/real-liberalism-resurging-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Liberalism Resurging in UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hod\/jvlb050505.shtml>This guy thinks so<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>If the negative reaction it has incurred from both right and left is any indication, the LibDems&#8217; distinctly liberal message seems to be paying off.  The Conservative-friendly <i>Telegraph<\/i> has felt it necessary to editorialize to its readership that the LibDems aren&#8217;t sincere in their embrace of the market. George Monbiot, columnist for the lefty <i>Guardian<\/i>, warns left wingers that a vote for the LibDems will not only signal opposition to the war in Iraq and the Labour government&#8217;s abysmal record on civil liberties, but they will also be a vote &#8220;for the further deregulation of business.&#8221; And when the BBC&#8217;s website pondered where the LibDems stand in this election, it threw up its hands:  &#8220;The question of whether the Lib Dems are now to the left of Labour is in the eye of the beholder.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Under Kennedy&#8217;s watch, a Liberal Democrat party that positions itself as the lone defenders of English civil liberty and peace, while unabashedly embracing a market economy, has scored phenomenal by-election upsets, snatching away safe Labour-held seats once thought to be impregnable.  He sounds like a sincere convert.  In a <i>Guardian<\/i> profile, Kennedy summons language to explicate his party&#8217;s core values that would stir any Classical Liberal heart: &#8220;The first guiding principle is a mindset, I think\u2014a gut philosophical instinct\u2014to see society in terms of the individual, first and foremost, rather than the interests of the state.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Hear, hear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy thinks so: If the negative reaction it has incurred from both right and left is any indication, the LibDems&#8217; distinctly liberal message seems to be paying off. The Conservative-friendly Telegraph has felt it necessary to editorialize to its readership that the LibDems aren&#8217;t sincere in their embrace of the market. George Monbiot, columnist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}