Liberal Conspiracy: a shortage of liberalism?

The launch of Liberal Conspiracy has generated a fair amount of discussion over whether it’s really about liberalism (the founding document only refers to the Labour party, only one Lib Dem blogger was at the launch etc.) or rather just a collection of terribly nice left of centre middle class moderates.

Today’s post about equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome (which seems to be one of the issues coming up in the Liberal Democrat leadership debate) rather neatly highlights the question over Liberal Conspiracy: the “left” features seven times in the piece, with just one passing reference to “liberalism”. Phrases such as, “I reckon the Left should face the fact …” make the piece read as if it’s really addressed to Labour and former Labour supporters rather than reaching out to any liberal community.

As a group blog, it’d be unfair to paint the whole site with the outlook of just one contributor (though they’re not the first to seem to have only a passing interest in liberalism), but it does rather highlight the question: where’s the liberal meat in the Liberal Conspiracy?

(All that said – it’s a good site, with interesting content and from an interesting range of people. But if you pick a title with “liberal”…)