So apologies for the question
(Although to get back to one of your points DoDo, In the UK, I think Thatcher's makeover of the Tories into neoliberal revolutionaries was what turned the local liberals into fence-sitter centrists, they were fence sitters before Thatcher came along. It seems to me they've been fence sitters ever since the founding of the Labour Party. In fact now is the only time in the last 80 or 90 years when they are not the centre party. Musings on life in Romania and beyond
To my knowledge, in the Thatcher years, Liberals formed an Alliance with the SDP, which I vaguely recall to have been to the left of Labour. Is that wrong? Were SDP centrists too? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
(But by now, Bliar took Labour far to the right of the onetime SDP, I guess?...) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I really must get used to hitting that spellcheck button. Musings on life in Romania and beyond