New Party

[Peter]

I'm interested, as I am dissasitisfied with many of the members in the Independent Liberal Party. 

What have we done to deserve such an assesmentt?

Not you Defarge. I'm talking about people like the President and the Vice President to name a few.

Let me guess, Prostitution and AA?

No party will be an exact ideological match for its members, ever, unless we start having lots of one/two man parties. I also think that having honest disagreements over policy does not mean that  their arguments are directed against you as a person.

[Peter]

Oh yes, good luck with your new party, though I'm obviously not happy about losing members from the ILP.

I have long thought there was an opening for a party in the vein of the United Left still remaining in Atlasia, one that may renounce the social issues-neutral stance of the FLP and the economic centrism of the ILP. I hope we can retain reasonable relations with this party if it survives.

[Peter]

But right now, the ILP is too much of a "big tent" party for a place that has so many parties.

This is by circumstance rather than by design I think. Fact is that the more socialist members of the forum (the economically and socially left wing) have been without a party truly of their beliefs since the death of the Democrats - the ILP was always meant to take the centre ground on economic issues, and it did. We sorta modified this to being big tent on economic issues so as to give the socialists a home. The FLP of course does not take positions on social issues, whilst maintaining an economic leftist agenda, so it also picked up many of the socialist members, but again this wasn't a true home as a socialist party would be.