Stu, I have explained my use of quotation marks innumerable times, you have not been paying attention.

Most people with whom I have come into contact and who loudly proclaimed themselves liberal, have turned out to be most illiberal.

These "liberals" are hypocrites and con artists.....They blindly follow the "liberal" media, who brook no other opinions but those which back up their hypocritical stance.
A short time ago, I argued against homosexual "marriage" and unregulated immigration, I was immediately jumped upon by a pack of "liberals" who stopped at absolutely nothing to intimidate, insult and stalk me.....not only on the forum but a few of them ended up in my village spreading shit, all because they were not liberal enough to tolerate alternative views.
Thankfully times have changed a bit, but socially conservative views are still met by a barrage of abuse by people like Jim and a few others.