Page "Liberal Unionist Party" Paragraph 60

In 1952 film version directed by Anthony Asquith ( the son of a former British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith ) Jack answers that he is a ' Liberal ' rather than ' Liberal Unionist '.

Lady Bracknell's answer remains the same-strangely suggesting the Liberals are virtually identical with the Tories except she won't have them round for lunch.

This is an ironical re-reading of the passage which suggests Lady Bracknell agreed with the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and their leader Henry Hyndman who thought the same about the two main British parties then.

However, in 1952 this comment was oddly true about the then Liberal party whose continued political representation in parliament was largely due to the Conservative party avoid splitting the ' anti-socialist ' vote.

So perhaps Asquith was making a political point for the 1950s.