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Who would you vote for...
MightyPenguin:
Labour got in. But they only have a majority of 66 seats- very nearly a hung parliment, if the Tories don't shatter into a hundred pieces for losing. Lib Dem are up 12 and the Tories 46.
Numsgil:
Labour is the conservative Republican-esque party, right?
Isn't Authoritarian Lassiez-fare (okay, I can't spell it) kind of opposite from what a labour party should be. I'd expect a labour party to be either communist or socialist.
That is, having the interests of labour in mind.
MightyPenguin:
:rolleyes:
Fuck me. Labour is centre right. When it was founded at the turn of the century it was *the*socialist party, taking over from the Dems as the Opposition. They founded the NHS and shit, but had to undergo idealogical reform after a series of blunders in the seventies put the Tories in power for two decades. They're still fairly left wing, pumping money into education (they introduced top-up fees, though) and the health service, but have whole-heartedly embraced the capitalist movement.
And, to be quite honest, they're a damn sight more left than the Democrats (the US ones, useless bastards that they are).
And I think Gorden Brown (the Lord Chancellor) would gut you if you said he's lassiez-faire.
Manifesto.
Numsgil:
Well then I'm really confused.
Maybe you can give us an idea of where all the parties are along the personal freedom/economic freedom grid?
MightyPenguin:
EDIT: Second Opinion. Notice they took different axis, so it's a bit hard to compare how we think of them.
EDIT: MORE!
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