Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jon Stanton wrote: > > Looks like he has a solid platform. As an American I get a little confused > with some British terms. "Liberal" in Britain for instance is Conservative > following the Classical Economic definition (Hayek, von Mises, et-al) maybe > (?) the equal to the Libertarian party in the USA? In British parlance, is > Conservative further to the right or more towards the center? Is your Labor > party the equivalent to our Liberal/Democratic party? Hey! it's 4am where > I'm at...back to the sack for me. Traditionally, our Labour party (note the spelling :-) is left of centre, Conservative party is right of centre, and Liberal Democrat party is in the centre. These days, they're all so similar it's difficult to tell them apart! Labour and Conservative parties are traditionally the two main parties but the LibDems are gaining ground. For the sake of the non-UK people, Michael Howard is the leader of the Conservative party, and we're having a general election next year sometime. This should put him and Tony Blair in the equivalent positions as G.W. Bush and Kerry, but I bet we don't hear anywhere near as much about them! Anyway, enough of the politics (UK and US!) - lets return to the LUG shall we? Simon. ---- Message sent via Totalise Webmail - http://www.totalise.co.uk/