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What I find as interesting about this chart as its contents is the label at the top: "#LIBERAL WOMEN"
Labour may in part* be more 'liberal' than the current Conservative party, but it is not a Liberal party...
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*It still has its more authoritarian, "law'n'order!" tendencies.
Labour may in part* be more 'liberal' than the current Conservative party, but it is not a Liberal party...
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*It still has its more authoritarian, "law'n'order!" tendencies.
...indeed, the chart itself 👇 suggests that "the women of Wakefield" support the Liberal Democrats LESS than the men.
This rather American(?) conflation of "left" and "liberal" in both language and assumption is a form of #CategoryError - in large part due to the insistence...
This rather American(?) conflation of "left" and "liberal" in both language and assumption is a form of #CategoryError - in large part due to the insistence...
...on the all-too #binary 'left/right' framing that fails to encompass many nuances within politics.
That UK-level choices prefer only two 'parties of Government' does not entirely reflect either sentiment or ground reality, as the local government layer in England indicates...
That UK-level choices prefer only two 'parties of Government' does not entirely reflect either sentiment or ground reality, as the local government layer in England indicates...
