Fulminating Against the National Liberals

The infantile leftists of Lancaster UAF and Norfolk Unity like to keep themselves busy. Currently they are fulminating against the National Liberal Party (NLP) of which I am a member. They are worried by the NLP decision to target Lib Dem marginals at the next General Election.

They say:-

“Ignoring the feeble attempt at self-justification as to why a fascist party
lays claim to the title “Liberal”, the first paragraph of Completely Blank’s
posting leaves no doubt whatsoever that the National Liberal Party intends to go
into the next general election purposed on conning votes away from the Liberal
Democrats by confusing itself with the mainstream party, and - they hope -
losing the sitting Liberal Democrats their seats.

There can be, and is, no other reason for the NLP to target itself so specifically - only against Liberal Democrats, and only in marginals where a small number of votes will decide the sitting MPs’ fates.

No other no-hope party, to the best of our knowledge, has
ever gone into a general election fixed purely on unseating MPs by use of deceit
and obsfucation.

In our opinion this amounts to a clear intention to mislead
voters and to abuse the democratic process on the part of a nasty little
organisation made up of no-hopers and fantasists closely connected with the BNP
and complicit in the running of the racist party’s bogus front groups.

It is also reason enough for the Electoral Commission to strip Third Way of the right
to campaign under the spurious “National Liberal Party” title.

We have already alerted the Liberal Democrats to the underhand intentions of the squalid NLP, but visitors (of all political persuasions) to this website can help by
complaining to the Electoral Commission, and by bringing this post to the
attention of Liberal Democrat MPs and LibDem organisations.”

Of course the National Liberal Party is by no means ‘Fascist’. The NLP opposes foreign military adventures, supports direct democracy and co-operative ownership, has an open membership for all ethnic, cultural and faith backgrounds and advocates civil rights against an increasingly interventionist State. This is not fascism but the exact opposite!

As for BNP ‘front groups’ we presume they refer to the Trade Union Solidarity which is independent and open to people of all political persuasions.

Still, let’s leave aside their childish name-calling and look at the substance of their argument.
The NLP has stated that it will target Lib Dem marginals for good reasons. The NLP wants, in fact, to highlight the difference between our Liberalism and theirs. What better way than to do this in an exciting marginal contest where maximum media attention might be expected? Far from seeking to ‘mislead’ voters by pretending to be the LIb Dems (as LUAF implies) the whole point is to show that a different form of Liberalism exists. This is what will be stressed in campaign literature. No one Party owns the term ‘Liberal’ just as no one Party owns the terms ‘Socialist’, ‘Workers’, ‘Democratic’ or ‘English’.

Parties registered using the term ‘Socialist’ include:-

Socialist Alliance
Socialist Equality Party
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Party of Great Britain [The]
Socialist Party (Northern Ireland)
Socialist Studies Party (1904)Socialist Unity

Parties registered using the term ‘Workers’ include:-

Workers’ Liberty
Workers Revolutionary Party
Workers’ Party [The]

Parties registered using the term ‘Democratic’ include:
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Democratic Party [The]
Democratic Socialist Alliance - People Before Profit
Democratic Unionist Party

Parties registered using the term ‘England’ or ‘English’ include:-

England First Party
English Democrats Party
English National Party
English Progressive and Liberty Party [The]
Englishindependenceparty.com

Additionally as LUAF themselves admit in addition to the NLP two other registered parties use the term ‘Liberal’. These are the Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Party.

Do LUAF really think that the electorate is unable to distinguish between Parties using a term within their name which is the same as another? There is a lot of media coverage and campaigning during elections. The general public are not as stupid as LUAF implies. Any vote for the NLP will be a positive vote for a different form of Liberalism. If the Lib Dems lose seats as a result that is democracy in action. The NLP has already beaten them in local elections.
LUAF say that the National Liberal party should be “stripped” of its name by the State. No such thing will happen. They have no logical case, they have no legal case, in fact they are fantasists.