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Why does the foot of the aricle show a big box with info about the Liberal Democrats, like a list of their leaders etc? I realise they're the succesor party to the Liberals but listing info about them instead of (not even as well as) about the party the article is supposedly discussing seems weird. 217.28.5.247 (talk) 11:47, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
As The Liberal Party no longer exists, the bulk of this article should be the history of the party. In 2008 the entire history section was removed to create History of the Liberal Party (UK) leaving behind only a section on Ideology. While there is an argument that the history is quite long and could be split off into a seperate article, the guidelines for that - WP:Summary style - do indicate that a summary should remain. I haven't got the time right now to summarise the history, so I have returned the history section to the article, as clearly without the history, this was not an article on The Liberal Party at all, but a few paragraphs on the party's idealogy.
Possible way forward: Discuss if a separate History article is required, and if consensus shows that to be appropriate, then summarise the History section per WP:Summary style and provide a link. If consensus is that a separate history article is not needed then redirect History of the Liberal Party (UK) to this article. SilkTork *YES! 18:04, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Do we really need separate article on the history of Liberal Party (UK)? If the party itself is officially defunct it is all history. When you have a look at that article it consist only of section Ideology which is also about history... I believe these articles should be merged. Errarel (talk) 13:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
See Help:Merging: "Merging is a normal editing action, something any editor can do, and as such generally does not need to be proposed and processed. If you think merging something improves the encyclopedia, you can be bold and perform the merger... Because of this, it makes little sense to object to a merger purely on procedural grounds, e.g. "you cannot do that without discussion" is not a good argument."
My intention was to set up a merge discussion, however, as the original split was done inappropriately and against guidelines, and as people had already set up a query regarding the split, and that query had been supported but not challlenged, my merger was in line with common sense, good practice, apparent consensus and relevent guidelines. I suggest above in the History section, that a discussion could be started on the splitting and development of this article. That discussion, is, I feel, quite appropriate, and potentially more helpful than raising objections to restoring this article to the state it was in before being split. SilkTork *YES! 08:49, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Can someone expand/add to the part about the modern ideology? Here on the other side of the Atlantic we seem to have a different definition of liberalism and it would be nice to have it clarified. thanks. --MartinezMD (talk) 22:42, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
The history of the party seems a little simplistic and misinformed in places. I've started to re-write it, taking in more recent scholarship. So far, I've only done the 'origins' section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.184.8 (talk) 19:53, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
The word "separate" is misspelled, but I can't find the paragraph through editing to correct it. 184.98.114.112 (talk) 06:06, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s
Permanently is a poor choice of word here. It implies the situation could not be reversed. 82.46.109.233 (talk) 23:28, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
I came to this page to try and find, essentially, a list of Liberal governments, with the dates they were in power, whether they won an election outright or in coalition, and which leader was PM. I think something like this would be quite useful to add, if anyone has the time, as currently there's a lot of scrolling through sometimes difficult to read text to find the years and PMs. Thanks 194.66.198.40 (talk) 16:12, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Liberal Party (UK)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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The 1909 Punch cartoon of Lloyd George and Asquith can be seen in full here with the text "Rich Fare. The Giant Lloyd-Gorgibuster: "Fee, fi, fo, fat, I smell the blood of a plutocrat; be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." It references Fee-fi-fo-fum and the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Nedrutland (talk) 06:54, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Not actually Asquith.Paulturtle (talk) 00:08, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
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I've recently removed two blatant falsehoods from the article, a claim that Joe Chamberlain was the leader of the Liberal Party, and a claim that the Irish Parliamentary Party (founded 1874) was founded as a consequence of the Third Reform Act (1884). There is no place for falsehoods like this in any article, let alone one about such a major force in 19th century British politics. The article needs going over very carefully to see what other nonsense has made its way in. DuncanHill (talk) 13:44, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
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I note that little mention is made of the work of the party in local government. Ideally perhaps there ought to be a list of the local authorities the party has controlled with dates and perhaps some account of the first steps in putting forward and the election of official Liberal local councillors. This is a job for an enthusiast obviously (which I am not.) Spinney Hill (talk) 12:44, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
I think the Liberal Party political position should be written "Centre to Centre-left" or "Centre-left (Historical) / Centre (Modern)" Until Labour grew into a major party, the Liberal Party was perceived as the left-wing against the right-wing Conservative Party.[1]Storm598 (talk) 23:14, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
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I believe the party was too big, and historically influential to not be worthy of a political position, however we have two obvious factions, as sourced, classical liberals, and social/new liberals, we have deviated between labeling them "Centre-left to centre-right" and simply just centrist/"Centrism", either is better than nothing in my opinion, but this party should be granted a position due to its historical importance. Thoughts? B. M. L. Peters (talk) 02:54, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
I'll make a better proposal than B. M. L. Peters. Mark the political position of the Liberal Party. However, it should never be marked "Centre". LP's political position should be marked as "Centre to Centre-left".--Storm598 (talk) 00:48, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
The topic of the Talk that B. M. L. Peters did was just a discussion of making LP's political position "Centre," not a debate about political position itself.--Storm598 (talk) 00:53, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
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