Talk:Liberal conservatism

editorializing moved from article Intangible 20:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

At the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth, England, party leader David Cameron emphasised his credentials as a Liberal Conservative and stated that he was "not a neo-conservative". Indeed the term "liberal conservatism" is likely to be used in contrast with social conservatism.

European regional varieties

I understand that such unsourced infos could not stay in the article without sources. Nonetheless, most of these infos are factually accurate:

Some regional varieties and peculiarities can be observed. In much of Central and Northwestern Europe, especially in Germanic and traditionally Protestant countries as well as the United Kingdom and Belgium, a divide persists between liberal conservatives (including Christian democrats) and liberals (including conservative liberals and social liberals). In most Nordic countries, liberal conservatives, Christian democrats and liberals form distinct political families and each have their own party. The largest liberal parties are the Nordic agrarian parties, which are traditionally agrarian. In most countries where Romance languages are spoken and where Catholicism is or has been dominant as well as in Greece and Poland, liberal conservative [parties], often encompassing Christian democrats and liberals, have more recently gained traction and the terms conservative and liberal [are often] synonymous.

Since there are such regional varieties in Europe, could anyone find sources and expand the article accordingly? -- Checco (talk) 12:02, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

FDP

Never heard the German FDP designated as conservative or liberal conservative… דולב חולב (talk) 21:02, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

It is more accuretely described as conservative-liberal or just liberal, indeed. --Checco (talk) 18:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

So can we delete it from the list? דולב חולב (talk) 20:46, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ste-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA269

link describing: The FDP liberal- conservative economic stances.

Not that the party is overall a liberal Conservative Party. דולב חולב (talk) 02:58, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Likud and New Hope’s inclusions

The source calling Likud liberal conservative is from 1990, and surely the party could not be described that way today. New Hope maybe could have been before, but it is dissolving. Shouldn’t they be removed from the list? Yavneh (talk) 22:38, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

No, in my view. Both parties continue to have liberal-conservative factions. --Checco (talk) 08:42, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

In any case, at the very least, we can agree that there should be a clarification that it is only some factions. While maybe Gideon Saar could be characterized that way, the majority of the party cannot be. Yavneh (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2026 (UTC)