Many political observers have long speculated that the continued rightward economic drift of the Independent Liberal Party under Emsworth could eventually damage it strongly, as it would end up turning off the leftist base of many of its members, driving them to the Social Democratic Party or a new, standard leftist party.
Ever since the dissolution of the Democrat and Republican parties in Atlasia, the Constitutional Union Party has held its own as being a dominant party in Atlasian politics. At certain times, other parties have potentially been as powerful, but weakened due to outside pressures or inactivity.
The Farmer-Labor Party and the Atlasian Conservative Alliance are examples of two of these parties. The Farmer-Labor Party doesn't exist any more, and the ACA, though still strong, has not shown the power it had two months ago. For the last 2 months, it has instead been the Independent Liberal Party that has formed the counterweight to the Consitutional Union Party. In some ways the Independent Liberal Party has tried to become the Constitutional Union Party, and that could be its undoing.
And it could all be the undoing of the Emsworth/Q candidacy.
Emsworth, if you don't mind me asking, why are you an Independent Liberal, and not a member of the Constitutional Union Party?
