Political parties with misleading names

[Hydera]

Liberal Democratic party of Japan isnt that Ironic at all.

If your using the idea of Liberal Democracy. of which they are for and just managed so many elections.

It only becomes problematic once you try to apply Classical Liberal/Socially Liberal into  its name.

Even the Liberal Party of Australia works if you just consider their Lean classical liberal economic stances.




Otherwise.


Conservative Parties - Maybe they'd made more sense if they had Classical Liberal Economics/Socially Conservative in their names.  But even for the UK, the conservative party there has pretty much abandoned even Social conservatism.

Social-Democratic Parties - Might want to change their name to Centre-left parties.  Most of them aren't very socialism-through-democracy anymore.

Venstre Parties - eh this is a bit obvious although that might just be because the traditional usage of those terms has fallen out.

Any left or left-of-centre economically using the term "Liberal" instead of "Socially Liberal" -  That word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Palmer United party - his party has fizzled out and his senators have registered as independents. Not very United at all.

Already mentioned but in France and Spain where they have a Socialist Party -   nahhhhhhh


Progressive named parties in Scandinavia seems to always be right-of-centre parties.

[Hydera]

Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, a party that doesn't even support what's in its own title!

R O F L


But then again the retard that runs the party was kicked out of the ANC. Which is quite a feat given the tons of things they tolerate, from rape scandals to corruption.

[Hydera]

Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, a party that doesn't even support what's in its own title!

So should they change their names to the Economic Horrible People?

Anyway, most of the parties here have names that make them sound more left-wing than they really are. Are there a large number of parties with names that make them sound more right-wing?

The Economic Socialists.


Since 'Economic Freedom Fighters' is not fighting for free economy but a Marxist-Leninist one.

[Hydera]

Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, a party that doesn't even support what's in its own title!

So should they change their names to the Economic Horrible People?

Anyway, most of the parties here have names that make them sound more left-wing than they really are. Are there a large number of parties with names that make them sound more right-wing?

The Economic Socialists.


Since 'Economic Freedom Fighters' is not fighting for free economy but a Marxist-Leninist one.

Cmon, it should be obvious that economic freedom for a poor black South African is getting a fair share of the wealth of the country and freeing themselves from being at the bottom of the social hierarchy with no resources and no control of their lives, not a free market economy. There are other definitions of freedom than the liberal one. Seeing capitalism as a form of oppression is still a fairly common view in large parts of the world, for obvious reasons.

Then they would be better named as the "Economic control Party". Since their not for a free economy at all.

[Hydera]

Not sure if this was posted already.   But the Freedom party of Austria which is very socially conservative.

Then theres the Party for Freedom.

[Hydera]

Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Not really for justice considering the numerous corruption scandals and mis-use of power.

And lets not forget the Social Democratic Party in the UK that was later absorbed by the libdems. Despite the name it was actually a bunch of centrist labour voters splitting off.