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Liberals (classical liberal, Whigs, etc) were one of the big parties during the empire along with the Tories. They got killed off in the 1970's by Labour.what's the difference between the lib dems and labor again?
I'm not extremely familiar with uk politics.
Labour were super anti-EU back in the day (as were most socialists) and some MPs split off and formed the Social Democratic Party which never went anywhere.
The Liberals and Social Democrats joined together to become the Lib Dems. Sometimes they would be based as their Liberal history would attract classical liberals. Some people really want a classical Liberal/Whig party to come back and replace socialist Labour.
For a long time they were the holier than thou "I'm above two party politics" choice (insert Redditers here) and could say stuff to please everyone because they'd never be in power.
They accidentally got in power with the Tory coalition in 2010 and then lost all their support because of course they couldn't please everyone.
Since then they've been a typical whacky minor party with a revolving door of leaders.
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