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  • proper noun politics, slang Diminutive of Social Credit Party
  • noun politics Plural form of Socred.

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Examples

  • BillX3 — I never said they were “small-c conservatives” I said they were Socreds, which is what their lineage is (most of them).

    David Suzuki Lectures Us Again « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Ask the 1991 Socreds, the 1993 Progressive Conservatives, or the 2001 New Democrats.

    Ottawa ‘fails to protect’ fish habitat in Fraser River « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

  • When Clark's government fell in 1979, it was because his budget failed in the Commons (he was deserted by the Quebec arm of the Socreds who were supporting his government ... their reward was to vanish from electoral history).

    the vote 2005

  • In the last 30 years, there have only been two election in BC that didn't result in strict two-party results: 1991 and 1996, when the collapse of the Socreds briefly knocked BC politics out of its comfortable two-party orbit.

    lone gunman 2006

  • This is one reason a commentator said that Alberta moderating itself after it had elected the PC party into power over the Socreds.

    mouseland 2006

  • Wait a second, Socreds was a party that was founded on conservative monetary politics and Christian values.

    mouseland 2006

  • On Monday, the Socreds called off merger talks with the Alberta Alliance and the Alberta Party.

    welcome to the mother ship. daveberta 2006

  • From what I can tell, BC politics tends to be pretty polorized, swinging from the left to the right between the left-wing NDP and the right-wing Socreds/Liberals and generally skipping the middle-ground.

    Archive 2005-04-01 daveberta 2005

  • From what I can tell, BC politics tends to be pretty polorized, swinging from the left to the right between the left-wing NDP and the right-wing Socreds/Liberals and generally skipping the middle-ground.

    west coast synopsis daveberta 2005

  • I am from British California, also known as Bennett Columbia, and the home of the Socreds.

    Malice in Blunderland 1999

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