Livre d'Or

And to what extent do the community feel they will have to move to fitting in with Liberal issues because of their affiliation. Does such a thing as right-wing-of-liberal exist?
In theory, Liberal Judaism is more centralized / top-down than Reform. However, as with any branch of Judaism small provincial communities have a lot more freedom to do things their own way than the London flagship shuls. And the Edinburgh crowd are really not going to stand for anyone telling them what to think or how to practise. They're a very diverse community and very engaged Jewishly, and I think rightfully proud of both of those.

Also, I think the Liberal movement is itself in flux right now. The movement as a movement is taking on more and more traditional practices, more Hebrew in services, restoring lots of the prayers that the founders left out, more emphasis on ritual alongside (definitely not instead of!) ethics and spirituality. So the 'right-wing-of-Liberal' mode is becoming more and more the norm anyway.

I think Edinburgh made the right decision, because in the end status issues are more important than nusach issues. It's much easier to be a Liberal community that happens to have a full Reform-style Torah service, than it is to be a Reform community where a significant fraction of the community aren't accepted as Jewish by the Reform movement.