Origins And Development Of Liberal Democrats

Question 1

How did liberal Democratic Party start ?

Answer 1

As a result of merging of two parties

Question 2

what year was the Liberal Democrat party formed ?

Answer 2

1988

Question 3

What two parties merged together to form the sodial Democratic Party ?

Answer 3

The social democratic party which stemmed from their split from Labour Party because they felt that they moved too far to the left and the liberal party

Question 4

When was the liberal party formed ?

Answer 4

Since 1877

Question 5

How did the liberal party emerge ?

Answer 5

As a coalition between the whigs and the radicals

Question 6

Who were the first leaders of the liberal party ?

Answer 6

Lord Palmerston and William Gladstone

Question 7

What was the problem between the liberals and the SDP in 1981

Answer 7

They were competing for the same voters

Question 8

In the 1983 general election the liberals and SPD did what together

Answer 8

Made an electoral pact to not put candidates against each other

Question 9

What was the electoral pact between SDP and liberals in 1983 known as ?

Answer 9

The alliance

Question 10

What happened to the alliance of liberals and social democrats

Answer 10

Plan failed and two parties won fewer than 30 seats between them

Question 11

in 1988 what decision was made between liberals and SDP?

Answer 11

For liberals and SDP to merge completely and form the Liberal Democrat’s

Question 12

In 2010 no party won overall majority so what 5 choices did the Liberal Democrat’s have ?

Answer 12

• Join labour (which voters rejected)
• or conservative in a coalition ( them being opposition of spectrum when it came to issues)
• refuse to participate in the goverment
• no power at time of financial crisis
• lastly, lose opportunity to influence events first hand

Question 13

Who was the Liberal Democrat’s leader in 2010 ?

Answer 13

Nick clegg

Question 14

What option did the Liberal Democrat’s go with in 2010

Answer 14

Nick Clegg chose the conservatives with no good option and found themselves in goverment for the next 5 years so coalition agreement with conservative

Question 15

What is a coalition

Answer 15

coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal

A coalition government is a government formed jointly by more than one political party

Question 16

During the coalition years the Liberal Democrat’s were able to act as a positive influence to goverment by 4 things what were they ?

Answer 16

1. Inject own green policies
2. Pupil premium to support funding in schools
3. Take Low income people out of paying tax
4. Prevent conservatives from implementing extreme les acceptance policies

Question 17

Examples of Nick Clegg (lib dem) blocking the Conservative policies proposals

Answer 17

• inheritance tax cuts to profit-making state schools,
• powers for bosses to fire at will - scrapping housing benefits for young people to ditching the Human Rights Act.

Question 18

Despite arguement of a successful coalition era , what lead to disaster for the liberal Democratic Party ?

Answer 18

• The electorate decided to punish the Liberal Democrats for broken promises which was their commitment not to raise tuition fees
• working with the conservatives party which alienated ex labour supporters who voted Lib Dem to prevent conservatives winning

Question 19

Due to disaster for the lib democrats what happened to the liberal Democratic Party

Answer 19

• only won 8 seats in 2015 election
• Nick Clegg resigned as leader and Tim Farron became leader
• Lib Dem become a minor party again

Question 20

Core values of Liberal Democrats

Where does Liberal Democrat’s get their values from ?

Answer 20

Liberal and social democratic (new labour) values

Question 21

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What is the Liberal Democrat’s core liberal value

Answer 21

Liberty

Question 22

Core values of Liberal Democrats

Why is Liberal Democrat’s core liberal value of liberty

Answer 22

• complete freedom is not practical in modern society but the state should have little interference in people’s personal private lives e.g regulating what people can buy and sell , who they can trade and how much can be charged for
• individual rights, freedom and privacy should be protected e.g by police that only intervention

Question 23

Core values of Liberal Democrats

When was the stress of Liberty and the liberty as core value begin ?

Answer 23

19th century fundemental liberalism, classical liberalism but liberals expand their ideas outside protection of liberty and accept wider role of the state promoting welfare state and social justice

Question 24

Core values of Liberal Democrats

but liberals expand their ideas outside protection of liberty and accept wider role of the state promoting welfare state and social justice, what is this called ?

Answer 24

Modern liberalism

Question 25

What is classical liberalism

Answer 25

Individual freedom would be best achieved by state playing a minimal role

Question 26

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What is modern liberalism

Answer 26

Emerged as reaction against free market capitalism believing this lead to many individuals not being free, so freedom no longer defined as being left alone

Question 27

Core values of Liberal Democrats

Individual freedom would be best achieved by state playing a minimal role
This is the definition for what liberalism ?

Answer 27

Classical liberalism

Question 28

Core values of Liberal Democrats

Emerged as reaction against free market capitalism believing this lead to many individuals not being free, so freedom no longer defined as being left alone

This is the definition of what liberalism ?

Answer 28

Modern liberalism

Question 29

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What did liberal also pursue for liberty ?

Answer 29

Social justice

Question 30

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What is social justice in (three things) ?

Answer 30

• removal of unjustifiable inequality in income in society
• equality of opportunity
• removal of artificial privilege people are born with

Question 31

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What is the liberal high suspicious of

Answer 31

Power of the government so should be controlled

Question 32

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What is the way of controlling the government power according to liberals and what is this called ?

Answer 32

By limiting power of the goverment by through strong constitution

This is called constitutionalism

Question 33

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What are the liberal Democratic know as

Answer 33

Social reformers

Question 34

Core values of Liberal Democrats

By the Liberal Democrat’s being social reformers what did they support ?

Answer 34

They support :

• same sex marriage
• disabled
• rights of women
• LGBT+ community

Question 35

Core values of Liberal Democrats

What are the other core values of Lib Dem’s

Answer 35

• multiculturalism: different cultures and lifestyles should be welcomed, pluralism
• concerned with the environment for human life to be healthy