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T_i_B

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9. "Libertarian" doesn't really mean anything these days

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 4, 2016, 03:31 PM

Dec 2016

At best it's a bandy word for people who like to bandy words about. Socialism has suffered the same fate.

Carswell is fanatical about leaving the EU at any cost, but he isn't an obsessively bigoted anti-immigrant type, which is an issue in the party of obsessive anti-immigrant bigots he's chosen to throw his lot in with.

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Paul Nuttall elected as UKIP leader [View all] Bad Dog Nov 2016 OP

he has the name to lead a party like UKIP rurallib Nov 2016 #1

'Put the great back in Britain' - ugh! LeftishBrit Nov 2016 #2

"62.6% of support among party members" Denzil_DC Nov 2016 #3

That's not enough votes to win a Westminster seat. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #4

Well, party membership doesn't equal votes, unfortunately. Denzil_DC Nov 2016 #5

They also lose a lot of MEPs. Some defect, others end up in court. Bad Dog Nov 2016 #6

I cannot fathom why they don't make Carswell their leader T_i_B Nov 2016 #7

Because Carswell, hard-right as he may seem to us... LeftishBrit Nov 2016 #8

"Libertarian" doesn't really mean anything these days T_i_B Dec 2016 #9