Talk:Scottish Libertarian Party

Right libertarian? No
Whoever obnoxiously keeps changing the description of the party to "right-libertarian" can stop it. The Scottish libertarian party is far to the left of all the major parties on civil-liberties, drug legislation, non-interventionist foreign policy, completely abolishing corporate welfare, bail-outs, and bail-ins, ending nationalist-protectionism, cutting military spending, and too many other things to mention.

I know that some people are in love with the over-simplified left-right spectrum but the scottish libertarian party doesn't belong anywhere on it, especially not on the right since classic liberalism was the opposing force to conservatism right up to the 20th century.


 * Hello user. Firstly I'd just like to make a small point of asking you to please tag your posts with the symbol indicated above the edit summary section below (indicated 'sign your posts on talk pages:', with the symbol proceeding) to indicate who you are. As to your point. Libertarian parties are not generally placed on the left-right scale, as they incorporate large elements from both sides and some would say from neither. It could be broadly said that libertarianism is largely left-wing on social and personal issues, and largely right-wing on economic matters. I'm not sure why the Scottish Libertarian Party is classed as right-libertarian, although I would not say I have enough knowledge of the party to say conclusively whether it is or not. I'd say this clearly needs some justification through both explanation and at least one supporting citation, otherwise it should just be reverted to libertarian in the ideology section, as that ideology is at least self-evident. Helper201 (talk) 22:49, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Euthanasia
Have changed both appearances of "euthanasia" in the article "assisted suicide or ‘dignified death’" - which is what appears on the 2016 manifesto. 80.47.95.70 (talk) 23:16, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Edits Reversed
I'm confused as to why my edits were reversed they were taken directly from the manifesto (https://app.box.com/s/3lubadnmg32qkgzlsij4s7spy4nf5uq7) and represent the party's views far more accurately than what they were reverted to. 80.47.95.70 (talk) 23:29, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Clarified much of the policies
While it's always good to see enthusiasm in adding material, the page had a number of issues particularly in its Policies section including typos, misquotes and rather confusing parts. This should hopefully be fixed now and avoid changes going back and forth. Pestergaines (talk) 22:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Scottish Independence
Is the party still pro Scottish independence?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vcgfjss5we105b/Scottish%20Libertarian%20Manifesto%20Online%20Version%202021.pdf?dl=03.

That doesn't seem to represent its current policy, based on the 2021 Manifesto. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RicoRichmond (talk • contribs) 19:41, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Removal of exact deregistered state
The current state of the deregistered party (see Electoral Commission link) is being removed. It is deregistered and cannot stand candidates for election. 2A00:23C5:B037:1101:BECE:BB48:9B11:1BB7 (talk) 22:55, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Links added about history and link to resignation of deputy leader.
Please keep in as these are true statements. Links provided. 2A00:23C5:B037:1101:BECE:BB48:9B11:1BB7 (talk) 23:28, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Party re-registered
As of 13/01/2023, the party has been re-registered by the Electoral Commission. See:

https://scottishlibertarians.com/happy-new-year-4/

http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP15208 152.37.90.226 (talk) 11:16, 17 January 2023 (UTC)