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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« on: April 24, 2017, 02:55:18 PM »

I think some of the agrarian parties in Scandinavia are softly Eurosceptic.

The Five Star Movement in Italy is self-declared as centrist (and definitely draws voters from across the political spectrum) and is very Eurosceptic.

The UK Liberal Party doesn't count; it's too irrelevant.
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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2017, 03:18:21 PM »

The Liberal Party in Britain, apparently.

Interesting. Who was more anti-EU, Gladstone or Rosebery?

Oh wait, I didn't know of another Liberal Party.

Not sure if you're just joking or not, but the UK Liberal Party was a splinter group from the old party who left in part because of the merger with the Social Democratic Party to form the Lib Dems but mostly because they opposed EU membership and the euro, while the Lib Dems support both (but keep quiet on the latter these days).

It has a small number of local government councillors scattered around the country, most concentrated in Liverpool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK,_1989)
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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2017, 05:38:03 PM »

The Liberal Party in Britain, apparently.

Interesting. Who was more anti-EU, Gladstone or Rosebery?

Oh wait, I didn't know of another Liberal Party.

Not sure if you're just joking or not, but the UK Liberal Party was a splinter group from the old party who left in part because of the merger with the Social Democratic Party to form the Lib Dems but mostly because they opposed EU membership and the euro, while the Lib Dems support both (but keep quiet on the latter these days).

It has a small number of local government councillors scattered around the country, most concentrated in Liverpool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK,_1989)

Well, I'm being perfectly serious in reference to the Liberal cadiver which still randomly appears at council elections. Grin The old Liberals were quite pro Common Market, but there was always a small anti-EEC grouping. The SDP was much more inflexible in its support for the Community.

Ironically, the continuing Liberals were originally a personal vehicle for Michael Meadowcroft, who long ago joined the Lib Dems. Now it just seems to be Steve Radford (who?) and his random followers.
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