Cameron slips further and further right as the rest move left

[kevin Frayne]

Cameron and the right slip further and further as more and more poeple see Neoliberalism moving into dangerous areas and its obsesive move to shrink the state, this from a Oct paper "Slip Sliding Away" as Paul Simon put it

 

The Conservatives have not won a general election for more than 20 years. "The party is still stranded too far to the right from where most voters want them to be on public services and the economy. There is an absolutely clear consensus among academics that the Conservatives didn't win the election because ... they scared too many people. In government, they have proved to these people that their fears were well-founded." Max Wind-Cowie, head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at the think-tank Demos, agrees: "In many ways Cameron has transformed the Conservatives – for example, Tory MP's now look and feel more like the rest of us – but the one thing he didn't do was rethink economically." Cameron retains a Thatcherite faith in the free market; since the financial crisis began, it has felt more and more out of date, given all the market meltdowns and "the public's quite sudden distrust of the neoliberal economic project". His desire to shrink the state, similarly, has come up against voters' stubborn fondness for big state institutions such as the NHS: "The right of the party need to accept that the public are not just one snappy libertarian argument away from telling the state to bugger off."

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[kevin Frayne]

Thats the one Bren

[Bren Cook]

It may be because of the 20 year gap that people have forgotten what it means to have a regressive, elitist, plunderers trying to turn the clock back to an imaginary past where everyone knew their place and forelocks were tugged. We are being governed by people with little experience outside of the Westminster village, making decisions based on stereotypes and the Daily Mail. No wonder things are grim. We need to educate the hoi poloi and not forget in future.

[joe taylor]

Thanks Kevin.  I found this bit interesting: Next month is the Corby byelection, the first in a Conservative seat since the general election – the absence of such awkward contests has been a characteristic piece of Cameron luck – and Labour are likely to win it. If that happens, a workable Labour-led coalition government becomes theoretically possible, involving the Liberal Democrats, the Greens, Plaid Cymru and Labour's traditional Ulster allies. While Nick Clegg remains Lib Dem leader that is hard to envisage, but as Stephen Tall of the website Liberal Democrat Voice puts it: "Lib Dems are starting to look post-Clegg and post-Cameron."