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As a good labour party member, I thought I'd point a couple of things out here...
1) Part of the reason the two parties seem so close is that the conservatives never fucking say anything anymore. If you go read any of their policies, you do see that they are significantly more 'right wing' than Labour.
2) You never see the Labour party flirting with racial politics in the way the conservatives often do.
3) The number of 'queer rights' bills introduced by labour in the past few years...
It is unrealistic to expect anyone to conduct large scale socialist style wealth redistribution through taxation in a modern western democracy. With the public perception being that the failure of the soviet countries equates to the failure of socialism, it would be political suicide to pursue any policies that could be painted as being in that domain.
I think the interesting movements in the next few years may be in the area of environmental policy - the cuntryside alliance types are a powerful lobby in the conservative party, and the BNP et al are said to be flirting with Green politics (presumably seeking a return to a rural, aryan idyll...)
Having said all that, I think Labour's relationship with privatisation is disgraceful (and lots of other things besides) but that disappointment over the lack of 'socialist' policies can easily distract us from the good things Labour have been doing. |
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