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National Liberal Party – True Liberalism 

The National Liberal Party is a British political party launched in late 2013.

It took over a party registration with a similar name. National Liberal Party – True Liberalism

Leader	Glen Maney

Founded	2013

Headquarters	PO Box 4217, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 4PX

Political Ideology

National Liberalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_liberalism).

Centrist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrist)

International Affiliation	None

Colours Orange

Website (http://www.nationalliberal.org)

See also

Politics of the UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_UK)

Political parties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_UK#Political_parties)

Elections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_Kingdom)

Contents


 * 1 Ideology and policies
 * 2 Electoral performance
 * 3 Leading members
 * 4 External links

Ideology and policies

The National Liberal Party is a political party supporting the principle of National Liberalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_liberalism).

This is expressed as the protection of individual rights (civil liberties) within the framework of a democratic nation state.

This they contrast to left-liberalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism) which it accuses of supporting the breakdown of nation states, most notably by supporting the Unionist aims of the European Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union) and the breakdown of borders through globalization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization).

The result is a weakening of a nation’s traditional cultures and loyalties which has encouraged Western Governments’ to impose or attempt to impose, anti-liberal measures to help control a fragmented populous e.g. via ID Cards, increasing surveillance and information gathering.

Its main slogans are Liberty, Independence, and Democracy, which it calls the ‘Three Pillars’ of National Liberalism [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_True_Liberalism(UK)

The first pillar, Liberty, concerns individual rights and liberties (see political liberalism *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_liberalism) it sees threatened by Governments under the guise of ‘security’. It calls for a Civil Liberties Watchdog to guard against any erosion. It has some sympathy with libertarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism) opposition to state intervention on individual choice.

The second pillar, Independence, highlights opposition to any loss of ‘British’ (or any other nation’s) sovereignty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty) to the European Union but also supports greater recognition of the United Kingdom’s constituent nations i.e. England, Wales, Scotland and Ulster via a Federalist/Devo-Max Constitution. They would look to Switzerland’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Foreign_relations_and_international_institutions) ‘Neutralist’ position as a model in world affairs.

The third pillar.Democracy, focuses on what they see is a lack of democracy in the U.K. and supports measures which would increase participation. This would include the greater use of electoral proportional representation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation), a None of the Above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above) box on ballot paper, Recall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election) and Direct Democracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy#Switzerland) along Swiss lines using referendums and citizens' initiatives. The NLP also opposes over-centralised government and promotes Subsidiarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity) i.e. decision making at the lowest practical level.

There is fourth, unstated, pillar, namely Ecology, which is based upon a belief that the land is held in trust for future generations, and that urban development is in danger of threatening the citizen’s ‘Quality of Life’ by reducing green spaces and building on flood plains. It ultimately foresees an ecological ‘point of no return’ if the UK does not seek to limit population growth and thus opposes ‘open borders’.

Economically it supports the self-employed, small business, small shopkeepers and co-operative ownership. [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_True_Liberalism_(UK)#cite_note-2)

Its full title is ‘National Liberal Party – True Liberalism’. The suffix was necessary because the electoral commission refuses to allow the shortened version so as not to be confused with the left-liberal Liberal Party. ‘True Liberalism’ reflects the early Liberal belief that the only safeguard of newly acquired liberties would be found within a democratic nation state. [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK)#cite_note-3)

It therefore looks to early 19th century European thinkers such as Guiseppe Mazzini

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini), Rudolf Benningsen

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_von_Bennigsen), and Eduard Lasker

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Lasker), and in the United Kingdom Joseph Chamberlain

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain), Hilaire Belloc

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc) and Earnest Brown

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Brown_(MP)) of the second version of the Liberal National Party (1935-47)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931), for inspiration. [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK)#cite_note-4

Electoral performance[edit]

It announced that its first election contest will be at the European Parliamentary elections in 2014, under the party list description National Liberal Party – Self-Determinaton for all! in the London region.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK)#cite_note-5)

The party says it is fielding up to eight candidates representing various national Diasporas that have predominantly fled from abroad due to political or ethnic persecution. It believes that any political settlement must include a UN supervised referendum on any national communities’ future i.e.Self-determination. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination).

It also predicts that a future ‘British Obama’ will emerge from these Diasporas.[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK)#cite_note-6)

Leading Members[edit]

It is run by a National Council that includes ex-Lib Dem activist Glen Maney (Leader & National Secretary), Jagdeesh Singh, Graham Williamson, and Upkar Singh Rai.

External links[edit]

•	National Liberal website (http://nationalliberal.org/)

References [edit]

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1. http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberalism/the-three-pillars-of-national-liberalism

2. http://nationalliberal.org/statement-of-principles

3. http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberalism/head-heart

4. http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberalism/history/historical-figures

5. http://nationalliberal.org/unity-in-diversity

6. http://nationalliberal.org/new-horizon-3-now-out

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