Hari On Cameron
One of his better slashings.
As ever, some light editing would make a fine article great, for instance
To them, “the central state shifting money around” hasn’t dealt with “the symptoms” of poverty; it has ended their poverty.
Should be:
To them, “the central state shifting money around” hasn’t dealt with “the symptoms” of poverty; it has ended it.
But the points he makes are fine ones. Hopefully there will be more ones along these lines now that Cameron is verging upon unstoppable and the Right are acting rather like Obama supporters, just with less cause. I still doubt he can be stopped by this stage, or rather not by somebody who seems determined to annoy everyone who would consider voting for him {die-hard socialists? 10 tax rate! The young liberal crowd? Reclassify cannabis!} in a desperate and utterly disingenious lunge for the Daily Mail readership, who are already thoroughly enamoured with the genuine electable Tory they’ve been longing for for so long.
Still, the prospect of Cameron passing himself off as progressive is preposterous and I hope that more of an effort is made to expose it. For as long as John Redwood is in charge of anything important it’s a blatant lie.
Now if only we could get Milliband some courage…
The Mail hate Cameron. He’s everything they hate about the new Tory Party - too liberal, too touchy-feely, too centrist. Brown they haven’t really gone for in quite the same way they went for Blair and indeed, last year, there was a weird period when they indicated tacit approval of him.
Cameron is progressive of sorts.
What sorts?
He’s socially liberal and, as progressive is a relative term, certainly progressive within the Tory Party.
What Ben said.
He’s socially liberal
No, he isn’t.
He may not be attacking the gays but he still wants single parents to fund the Tories obsessive “Pro-family” {read: pro-marriage} funding of couples in wedlock. Indeed, his “Wisconsin style” benefits reforms consist largely of making life misery for single parents to try and socially engineer through woe and force them off into work {what exactly happens to their totally dependent child is rarely sketched in}. That is what I would call socially conservative.
and, as progressive is a relative term, certainly progressive within the Tory Party.
Meaningless.
You can be socially conservative and liberal at the same time. It’s the new way.
Wtf?