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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats
(www.theguardian.com)
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Well, at least the was one election where Nazis didn't win big.
Mind describing to us what you consider a right, but not far right, political stance is? Examples of both economic and social policies would be welcome.
For me I'd say the one-nation part of the conservative party.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-nation_conservatism
Democrats. Sounds funny, but it's true. Bernie would be "mostly left".
I'm not American so I'm not all that familiar with that frame of reference
Where are you from?
Doesn't matter, just explain it with actual examples of policies
Sure thing, chief.
Neoliberal economics (low corporate taxes, weak regulations, privatization, weak welfare system, government intervention is used to facilitate further market expansion and prop up big businesses).
Large budgets for the army and the police without much external oversight, while still maintaining some level of restraint on what they can do.
Making it harder to get a visa and even harder to get a citizenship.
Hard-line stance against what are considered vices by the society the conservatives in question inhabit.
A preservation of the monarchy in countries which have them.
Incentives to give birth.
Not a bad lisy actually, although I heavily disagree with the military and police budgets line... Authoritarian left regimes are known for very high police and military budgets even with heavily states controlled economies.
Edit: police and military spending tends to relate more to the libertarian-authoritarian spectrum rather than the socioeconomic left-right spectrum
Conservatism is tends towards some degree of authoritarianism.
There are no policies that are uniquely conservative, or uniquely anything for that matter. When taken together, however, you can see conservativism form before your eyes.
Eh, so does Western Liberalism and basically every other government for the last hundreds of years, I'd argue that they are even authoritarian to very similar degrees but about different things.
Right on the money about liberals not being too different from the less cooky conservatives, but there have been much more authoritarian systems and much less authoritarian systems in the last few hundred years.
They didn’t do that bad really, it just wasn’t reflected in the results. A new further right party showed up and split the right wing vote, which is largely why Labour won. If you look at the total votes the righter win parties did pretty well (Tories are really all that right wing but they did get the right wing vote).
If the UK had a preferential voting system the Tories would have won a lot more seats
New party (Reform) skyrocketed in fact. Had the vote not been split, conservatives would have won many more seats. Next cycle will be.. Interesting. Especially with Nigel Farage getting a seat (Trump-like, seeded discontent leading to Brexit, who's never been elected before).
Yeah, as much as I hate everything Farage stands for, fair play to him for splitting the Tory voters and delivering a Labour government. I just wish that kind of thing wasn’t necessary.