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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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The Economic Spectrum in British Polotics

[passage.livejournal.com]

It's not as clear cut as Michelle makes out, frankly all of the major British parties are now awfully close on the left-right scale, and who scores the furthest in any direction rather depends on which question you ask (and to which representative of the party you ask it), we don't have anything like the spectrum of economic policies that American politics offers.

Every so often the Coservatives try to persuade Labour to drastically raise taxes so that they'll be a difference between them, but Labour have opted for the slow and steady stealth tax (much of it aimed largely at students actually) which the other parties don't seem to have much objection to.

It's possible the BNP have different economic policies, but I've never succeeded in looking past all their racism nonsense to find out. (By which I mean they're rasist and so have nonsense policies.)

Re: The Economic Spectrum in British Polotics

[senji.livejournal.com]

American politics? Where you have a choice of Far Right or Even Further Right? :)

(you can't plausibly elect anyone other than a Democrat or a Republican for anything...)

Re: The Economic Spectrum in British Polotics

[passage.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry, based on how right wing Bush was, and knowing that the democrats were not so I assumed they were like actually left wing. I take it this was a gross misunderstanding, and America in fact has all the flexibility we do, just elsewhere on the spectrum.