Liberals in Dire Straits

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IT'S a minor miracle of politics. Somehow the Liberals have managed to maintain the myth they are the straight guys - in both senses of the word - when they've been led by more drunks, legover merchants, voyeurs and gays than the Tories and Labour combined.

Gladstone was titillated by rescuing whores. Lloyd George was an old goat with women, just like Herbert Asquith who was a drunk as well, bequeathing the expression "squiffy"to a grateful nation.

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Liberals in Dire Straits

Jeremy Thorpe was not only gay but finished up in court, accused of conspiring to mu...

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