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zotzHere you can find Ken McLeod's take on the important facet of British electoral politics. I've heard too many people lazily parroting the idea that there's no difference between a Blairite party and a conservative one to do anything but shake my head sadly and agree with him.
Whether a Conservative government woud be a good or a bad thing, of course, is a matter of opinion. Whether it would be a major departure is not. "A new Tory government would not be more of the same - Blairism with a less human face. It would be as different from the governments of Thatcher and Major as theirs were from those of Edward Heath. It would resemble Thatcher's only in its capacity to astonish. The Left would spend the next ten years beating their heads against questions like How can they get away with that? and Where did we go wrong?"
If you have any interest in politics, you could do a lot worse than keep an eye on Ken.
"Much as I detest New Labour's imperialism and its civil authoritarianism, I'd rather have it in government, where we can fight it, than in opposition, where it's in our trench against a worse enemy."
Whether a Conservative government woud be a good or a bad thing, of course, is a matter of opinion. Whether it would be a major departure is not. "A new Tory government would not be more of the same - Blairism with a less human face. It would be as different from the governments of Thatcher and Major as theirs were from those of Edward Heath. It would resemble Thatcher's only in its capacity to astonish. The Left would spend the next ten years beating their heads against questions like How can they get away with that? and Where did we go wrong?"
If you have any interest in politics, you could do a lot worse than keep an eye on Ken.
"Much as I detest New Labour's imperialism and its civil authoritarianism, I'd rather have it in government, where we can fight it, than in opposition, where it's in our trench against a worse enemy."
