Politics is being turned on its head. There is now a new breed of so called Conservative politicians that are anything but small ‘c’ conservative.
Douglas Carswell is the best example. Listen to him and he seems to have no conservative bone in his body. He is a radical. He is a reformer. He has no respect for tradition or institutions. He believes in change and reform.
It is Labour politicians and the Liberal Left that are the new conservatives – desperately trying to hold on to the remnants of the institutions of a by-gone social democratic age: the NHS, the BBC and the welfare state.
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Sad but true...
I was thinking yesterday about a discussion I had with a left wing LibDem MP.
He could not understand that the NHS is fundamentally flawed - his position consisted of an almost panglossian insistence that nothing else is possible and without the NHS we'd all die.
This is a deeply conservative view, and deeply unimaginative. He could not imagine any other possible models for health care.
Yes, I noticed that. More generally the split between 'establishment' and 'progressive' has been completely cross party.
One of the weaknesses of the Lib Dems (and Libs before) has always been that many economically minded liberals moved to the Conservatives with the rise of Labour.
Do you think we are about to get a realignment?
What a pity it is that the term "liberal" is in the hands of a party which says that anyone who supports the principle on which liberalism was founded have no place in their party.
But that Nazis do.
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