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Being a Liberal Democrat - the basics
Every Membership Card issued by
the Party carries this extract from the Party’s Constitution:
“The Liberal Democrats exist to build and
safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the
fundamental values of liberty, equality and community and in which no-one shall
be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.”
“Would I feel at home in the Liberal Democrat Party?”
The Party is a broad
church, and accommodates people with a very wide spreads of views.
- You are unlikely to meet people who are intolerant of other people's life
styles, unless they are clearly harmful to others. We are against racism and
homophobia and similar aberrations not because it is politically correct,
but because we believe them to be wrong.
- We are international in outlook, - this is the party of Gladstone. We
support the United Nations and the European Union because we believe that we
do not lose control of our own affairs by sharing control with like-minded
people. We are far more likely to lose control by isolating ourselves and
going it alone.
- We are deeply concerned for the environment but recognise that
environmentalism on its own cannot succeed. We seek
sustainability through the entire spectrum of policy and government.
- We seek to maximise freedom within a context of accountability. We work for
transparency, the right to information without which
consultation is a sham and informed choices are impossible.
- We set our own Agenda with democracy at all levels of the Party. We are
owned neither by the Trade Unions nor by Big Business, and have to finance
ourselves. It is a struggle, but it keeps us free.
Because we concentrate on what needs to be done and try to avoid the
yah-boo style of politics we are attractive to people who share our
principles.
And for the kind of Conservative uneasy with the stridency of the
post-Thatcher Right, and the kind of Labour member who believes there is still
life in the public service ethic, and the Green who wants to make things like
recycling actually happen on the ground, we are the natural home.
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