Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.

During this time in government, the Liberals are credited with the so-called Liberal Reforms, which saw the creation of a basic welfare state.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

" The multiple crises we are currently mired in-economic, political and environmental-are an opportunity for Liberals to show what we are made of.

In addition, the Liberals are opposed to all-day schools, because they believe that those schools are not performance-oriented enough and individual student support is not sufficiently guaranteed.

The Nationals are in a coalition with the Liberals at a State level in Victoria.

Liberals must support linguistic think tanks in the same way that conservatives do if they are going to succeed in appealing to those in the country who share their metaphors.

VVD MEPs are part of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe EP group.

Liberals have a Nurturant Parent morality in which people are made good by being helped by those who are better off, everyone is taken care of by helping each other.

Liberals and conservatives have different worldviews and sematics are very much influenced by the worldview of the speaker.

Liberals try to persuade through reason and facts while conservatives used metaphorical stories and that is why, Lakoff argues, conservative politicians are more successful at motivating voters than liberals are.

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.

In terms of economic policy, the Conservatives are the least interventionist of the major parties, the Liberals slightly more so, and the New Democrats substantially more interventionist.

In term of the pace of change, the Conservatives are, as their name implies, conservative, the Liberals and NDP tend towards the more progressive, and the BQ are radical, favouring Quebec's withdrawal from the Canadian state and society.

In regard to federal-provincial relations it can said that BQ are separatist, the Conservatives decentralist, the Liberals status-quo, and the NDP centralist.

The Liberals and NDP are more pluralistic including generous government support for minority cultures, while the BQ favour viewing Canada as two separate societies ( English Canada and Quebec ), and advocate strong protections for French language and culture in Quebec while remaining unconcerned about issues with other minorities or in other parts of the country.

The policies of the two main parties are exactly the reverse of 19th century, when the Conservatives were a party of protectionism and the Liberals favoured free trade with the US.

He claims that many problems identified with blacks in modern society are hardly unique in terms of American ethnic groups, nor in terms of a rural proletariat swept by disruption as it became urbanized, discussed in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

Its members in the European Parliament are members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

The Liberals gained ground, but once again it was at the Conservatives ' expense whilst also losing seats to Labour.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

The agricultural export interests, centered in the coastal region near Guayaquil, became closely associated with the Liberals, whose political power also grew steadily during the interval.

But in 1982 the economy experienced a sharp recession ; and also a protracted scandal over tax-avoidance schemes run by prominent Liberals plagued the government.

The Liberals have also gained support as the differences between the coalition partners on a federal level have become invisible.

The Kulturkampf and its effects also stirred up public opinion against the party that supported it, and Bismarck used this opportunity to distance himself from the National Liberals.

Clark was bilingual but the PC party was also unable to make much headway in Quebec, which continued to be federally dominated by the Liberals.

At the same time, Buchan ventured into the political arena, and ran as a Unionist candidate in a Scottish Borders constituency ; he supported free trade, women's suffrage, national insurance, and curtailing the powers of the House of Lords, though he did also oppose the welfare reforms of the Liberal Party, and what he considered to be the " class hatred " fostered by demagogic Liberals such as David Lloyd George.

Women's Rights activists also turned against Asquith when he adopted the ' Business as Usual ' policy at the beginning of the war, while the introduction of conscription was unpopular with mainstream Liberals.

" Some Liberals also resorted to sharp campaigning practices, with Lloyd George in particular accusing the Chamberlain family of profiteering.

In Australia, the Coalition is also used to refer to an alliance ( coalition agreement ) of three parties ( the Liberals, Nationals and Country Liberals ) existing in federal politics since 1922 — this constitutes a parliamentary coalition.

In domestic politics, Bethmann Hollweg's record was also mixed, and his policy of the " diagonal ", which endeavoured to maneuver between the Socialists and Liberals of the left and the right-wing nationalists of the right, only succeeded in alienating most of the German political establishment.

The British Columbia Liberal Party ( also referred to as the BC Liberals ) is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada.

The Liberals also proved themselves to be inexperienced, both in the legislature and in building a broad-based political movement.

To improve BC's investment climate, the BC Liberals also reduced the corporate income tax and abolished the corporate capital tax for most businesses ( a tax on investment and employment that had been introduced by the New Democrats ).

Campbell also initiated the privatization of BC Rail, which the Liberals had promised not to sell in order to win northern ridings which had rejected the party in 1996 but reversed this promise after election, with criminal investigations connected with the bidding process resulting in the BC Legislature Raids of 2003 and the ensuing and still-pending court case.

There were attempts in the United Kingdom to found a Popular Front against the National Government's appeasement of Nazi Germany, between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Communist Party, and even rebellious elements of the Conservative Party under Winston Churchill, but they failed mainly due to opposition from within the Labour Party but incompatibility of Liberal and socialist approaches also caused many Liberals to be hostile.

Andrew Coyne suggested that the NDP not only wanted to disassociate themselves from the scandal-ridden Liberals, but also because the Liberals were likely to receive credit for legislation achieved under the Liberal-NDP partnership.

The NDP had also lost close races in the 2004 election due to the Liberals ' strategic voting.

Following a general election defeat in 1900, Campbell-Bannerman went on to lead the Liberal Party to a landslide victory over the Conservative Party at the 1906 general election, also the last election in which the Liberals gained an overall majority in the House of Commons.

The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924, and although his government was defeated, he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives.

Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.

In 1931 MacDonald's government fell apart under the Great Depression, and the Liberals agreed to join his National Government, dominated by the Conservatives.

The official Liberals found themselves a tiny minority within a government committed to protectionism.

In the October 1974 general election the Liberals slipped back slightly and the Labour government won a wafer-thin majority.

According to this pact, the Liberals would support the government in crucial votes in exchange for some influence over policy.

When the Labour government fell in 1979, the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher won a victory which served to push the Liberals back into the margins.

Santander's followers, forerunners of the Liberals, wanted a decentralized government, state rather than church control over education and other civil matters, and a broadened suffrage.

The results produced a ČSSD coalition government with Christian Democrats ( KDU-ČSL ) and Liberals ( US-DEU ), while Civic Democrats ( ODS ) and Communists ( KSČM ) took place in opposition.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

After the death of García Moreno, it took the Liberals 20 years to consolidate their strength sufficiently to assume control of the government in Quito.

Liberals favoured recognising Demotic as the national language, but conservatives and the Orthodox Church resisted all such efforts, to the extent that, when the New Testament was translated into Demotic in 1901, riots erupted in Athens and the government fell ( the Evangeliaka ).

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

The 1956 Pipeline Debate led to the widespread impression that the Liberals had grown arrogant in power when the government invoked closure on numerous occasions in order to curtail debate and ensure that its Pipeline Bill passed by a specific deadline.