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[chess]

I've been finding out lately that a disturbing number of you are conservatives/Tory supporters of some stripe or another. Being somewhat of a flaming red socialist myself, I'm interested in how you guys justify the belief that the rich ought to get richer and the poor ought to fend for themselves that seems to be the Tory standpoint to me...

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[ilanin.livejournal.com]

>(Also, actual current conservatives don't seem to be based on >the 'isn't the government's business' model; they tend to do lots of >things of the 'protecting family values' type, which aren't the >government's buisiness much more than 'making sure everyone has >access to what they absolutely need' isn't.)

What? Irrelevant of the rest of the discussion, I'm not letting you get away with this. Cite your sources. The thrust of the Conservative argument currently is that the government is bloated and wasteful. They've just introduced a member of the shadow cabinet with the portfolio "deregulation".

The leading intellectual light in the Conservative party at the moment is the Rt. Hon Oliver Letwin MP, a gentleman (and, according to the secretary of the Commons Home Affairs select committee (who, yes, is a personal friend), the term gentleman is correct) who comes closer to "Gladstonian Liberal" (i.e. Libertarian) than any other politician I've seen, on either side of the House, in decades.

Actual political philosophy from me to come a bit later. Mostly I agree with requiem_17_13, although my views are a bit stronger.

[senji.livejournal.com]

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[ilanin.livejournal.com]

Certainly you may.

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