The Lib Dems were a "progressive" party and a "liberal" party, he said.
Any claim @LeanneWood had to be a socialist or Plaid to be a progressive party has just been destroyed by her alliance with Tories and UKIP.
"It should be as concerned with a good society as with a good economy, being a progressive party dealing with poverty and helping with disadvantage," he said.
"For a hundred years the Liberals have dined out on the idea that if they are given the votes they will be a progressive party.
A lot of people voted Liberal thinking they were a progressive party, but now find the Liberals and the Conservatives in a rightwing coalition.
'We appeal to those people who are peel-offable by being a progressive party,' warns Evan Harris, the party's former health spokesman and an influential figure on the left.
While stressing sitting members should not be involved in preselecting their successors, Bishop said: "Menzies named it the Liberal party because he wanted it to be a progressive party not a failed experiment, not reactionary and certainly not socialist.
One is a progressive party that accommodates what is now called identity politics, reaching out to a coalition of people — those black, Jewish, Native American, and Irish petitioners Grant tried to favor — who think the world is getting better and who support some kind of benevolent government protection.
One is a progressive party that accommodates what is now called identity politics, reaching out to a coalition of people those black, Jewish, Native American, and Irish petitioners Grant tried to favor who think the world is getting better and who support some kind of benevolent government protection.
With a great band playing early and late, it was a progressive party done up the way it should be.
