Reply #4: You'd be right, up until 1994

[muriel_volestrangler]

But since Blair took over Labour, the party's policies have firmly occupied the centre, and are now slightly to the right, economically, of the Lib Dems. The main difference between the 2 parties now are on civil liberties (the Lib Dems are in favour of them, while Labour likes compulsory ID cards, longer periods of detention without trial, that sort of thing), and foreign policy (the Lib Dems opposed the Iraq invasion, Labour was in favour, Labour wants a brand new nuclear deterrent capable of wiping out Russian cities from sea in case they attack us first, while the Lib Dems want something smaller, or perhaps no nuclear deterrent at all).