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Harold Elletson 0 Fixing a Broken Britain 0 Boris Johnson, the man with no bottom - Harold Elletson 0 Fixing a broken Britain - Roger Hayes 0 Thought slavery had been abolished? - Isabelle Parasram Issue 397 - September 2019 £ 4 Issue 397 September 2019 SUBSCRIBE! CONTENTS Liberator magazine is published six/seven times per year. Subscribe for only £25 (£30 overseas) per year. Commentary .................................................................................3 You can subscribe or renew online using PayPal at Radical Bulletin .............................................................................4..5 our website: www.liberator.org.uk THE MAN WITH NO BOTTOM ................................................6..7 Or send a cheque (UK banks only), payable to Boris Johnson might see himself as a ’great man’, but is an empty vessel “Liberator Publications”, together with your name without values says former Tory MP Harold Elletson and full postal address, to: IT’S TIME FOR US TO FIX A BROKEN BRITAIN ....................8..9 After three wasted years and the possible horror of Brexit it’s time Liberator Publications for the Liberal Democrat to take the lead in creating a reformed Britain, Flat 1, 24 Alexandra Grove says Roger Hayes London N4 2LF England ANOTHER ALLIANCE? .............................................................10..11 Should there be a Remain Alliance involving Liberal Democrats at any imminent general election? Liberator canvassed some views, THE LIBERATOR this is what we got COLLECTIVE Jonathan Calder, Richard Clein, Howard Cohen, IS IT OUR FAULT? .....................................................................12..13 Gareth Epps, Catherine Furlong, David Grace, Pro-European politicians have been too scared to make a robust case Sarah Green, Peter Johnson, Wendy Kyrle-Pope, for the EU, and that includes the Liberal Democrats says David Grace Tim McNally, George Potter, Stewart Rayment, THE LEADER OF THE PACK ...................................................14..15 Kiron Reid, Harriet Sherlock, Mark Smulian, Jonathan Calder looks at the Social Liberal Forum’s new book on William Tranby, Claire Wiggins, Nick Winch liberal ideas Wolves in the Forest Liberator (ISSN 0307-4315) is printed by JUST THIS ONCE .......................................................................16 Lithosphere The enormity of Brexit demands that Remain parties stand Studio 1, 146 Seven Sisters Road, LONDON N7 7PL aside for each other, says Naomi Smith THOUGHT SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED? .............................17 LIBERATOR Modern slavery is rife despite legislation, with UK nationals often the victims, says Isabelle Parasram 0 was founded in 1970 and is produced by a BRAZIL: BACK TO DARKNESS ................................................18..19 voluntary editorial collective. A supported of torture, military dictatorship and white supremacy rules a potential economic giant and makes Donald Trump 0 acts as a forum for debate among radical liberals in look like a liberal. Jonathan Fryer reports all parties and none THIS MAY NOT LAST LONG ..................................................20..21 Liberal Democrat MEPs have no idea how long they will serve in Brussels, 0 welcomes written contributions on relevant topics, up but are making the most of their opportunities, says Jane Brophy to 1800 words INDIA SEES A LANDSLIDE ......................................................22..24 We reserve the right to shorten, alter or omit any First-past-the-post has allowed populist nationalists a huge victory in India. material. Seth Thevoz reports RADICAL LOVE TO FIGHT FARAGE .....................................25 DATA PROTECTION Beki Sellick fought the Brexit Party in Peterborough, can an example from Turkey help see it off? 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To alter or remove your details or discuss any OBITUARY: GEOFF TORDOFF ................................................29 enquiry please contact: Michael Meadowcroft pays tribute to the chair who saw the party [email protected] through the Thorpe scandal REVIEWS ....................................................................................30..31 INTERNET Lord Bonkers’ Diary ...................................................................32 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.liberatormagazine.org.uk Cover picture: Christy Lawrance, Blog: http://liberator-magazine.blogspot.co.uk pages 18-19 Mark Smulian, Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/ pages 22-24 Seth Thevoz groups/6806343091 BAPTISM OF FIRE and work within international institutions. So I will Jo Swinson’s emphatic victory in the Liberal always believe that the interests of our country are Democrat leadership race gives a substantial best served by being inside the EU, which is why it’s mandate and unlike her recent predecessors she vital that we deliver a People’s Vote and then stop is neither a stopgap (Cable and Campbell), a Brexit.” narrow victor (Clegg) nor has any obvious ruinous Pretty clear. If Swinson “will always believe that the interests of our country are best served by being inside weaknesses (Kennedy). the EU” then were Brexit to happen the Lib Dems So what will she do? The campaign itself gave few would be the ‘back in the EU’ party even if that were clues. Clearly many members felt it was high time expressed as some long-term aspiration. the party had its first female leader, but the political From such a position ought to flow the final demise differences between her and Ed Davey were not very of the ‘we can win everywhere’ approach, to which obvious. Apart from Davey’s scepticism about working Swinson showed some attachment in the Liberator 396 with other parties, there were precious few strategic questionnaire. differences on show either. One effect of the 2016 referendum has been to create Both were Coalition ministers, both came from Remain and Leave tribes with which polling suggests somewhere vaguely right of centre on economic issues, many identify far more strongly that with any party. neither proposed to do anything notably reckless. Since the Lib Dems will inevitably be identified with As with Clegg versus Huhne in 2007, with few the Remain tribe a leap in the party’s usual strategic political differences the choice became largely between thinking will be needed. Instead of trying to appeal to personalities. everybody it will have to pitch its appeal to the socially That could be said to show the party is politically liberal, internationalist-minded ‘drawbridge down’ united, so no need for the candidates to respond to people who dominate the Remain tribe. conflicts that don’t exist. It may for other reasons pick up votes - even win To an extent that is true. Since its sudden by-elections - in strongly Leave areas but it would resurrection in May’s local and European elections be suicidal for the Lib Dems to start saying different there has been unity around the anti-Brexit message things in different areas on Europe (since social media and enthusiasm to put it forward. The muttered will see this instantly exposed) or to lapse into ‘one the allegations of inactivity against Cable suddenly one hand but then on the other’ as the party struggles stopped and the new leader has an unexpectedly to avoid offending anyone. promising start to build on. The party will inevitably alienate hard Leave voters - Can this though outlast Brexit? At the time of writing the inspired Bollocks to Brexit slogan has seen to that. every scenario from no deal through to revocation It has though a providential chance to finally build its of Article 50 remained in play as might a general core vote among Remain supporters. election. Critics, notably the former MP Paul Holmes, have This has given Swinson a baptism of fire like no argued that a core vote strategy somehow means an leader since Paddy Ashdown in 1988 took over a party exclusive focus on the middle class. falling to pieces after the merger. There has been no It doesn’t. It means a focus on a recognisable set of period of relative leisure in which she can consider values and on those who share them, whoever they political positions and messages; its been straight are. into the fray and while opinions may differ about her This is what the other parties do, and just as one can initial response to Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal about an find working class Tories and champagne socialists the emergency government Swinson has so far been pretty point of a core vote is not that it excludes those outside sure footed. but that it gives a reliable base from which to build. But what happens once Brexit is resolved, however Until recently the Lib Dem core vote was a derisory that happens? The party could be in any position 5% and every additional vote had to be won anew each from having to defend itself against Brexit supporters time. shouting about “betrayal” (though few are Lib Dem Present circumstances offer an escape from filling the supporters in the first place)
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