Is the Democratic Party the most ideologically diverse in the world?

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How about the Liberal Democrats in Britain? Blair once bitched that they ran to the left of Labor in left wing areas, and to the right of Labor in more right wing areas  - veritable chameleons.  Maybe more order has been restored since they hitched up with the Tories.

That was just posturing for political gain, in practice the LibDems have always been a party of the centre or the centre-right (depending on what "wing" of the party the MPs are from).

The Social Democrats identified with the left of center (hence the name), but certainly the Liberals were always an anti-socialist party.

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in many ways they were the prelude to New Labour.

lolno

You basically had three groups of MPs who defected to the SDP: small 'l' liberal bourgeois Labour types who had given up entirely on the mother party, but who thought that the Liberal Party was a joke, Labour right-wingers who had fallen out with local Labour lefties and who wanted to recreate the Labour Party as it had been (in their memory anyway) twenty years earlier (almost all of these ended up rejoining Labour officially or in spirit some time after losing their seats), and the moronic careerist hacks who didn't really believe in anything and who miscalculated hee-lar-ree-oss-lee. On top of this, you have to add a large number of people outside (some of which were actually rather right-wing) who joined the SDP because the SDP were new and shiny and the other three parties were neither of those things.

I suppose the Tory MP who joined the SDP was in that last category, then.