Why is our government so right wing? When I first started voting (1980), it was Labour on the left, Tory on the right, and Liberal in the middle. Why can't it be like that now?
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Andy B
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life today isn't clear as it once was. labour is a liberal party that goes by the façade of claiming itself to be left but clearly isn't. radical changes have to be made in the labour camp or we'll be tory again.
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A government usually fulfills the will of their voters. If parties go right wing the voters and the people want to have it. Pethaps the British society was driving more and more to the right wing. I don't know. But nationalism and chauvinism are extremely growing in few a european countries. Well, we have just to take notice and respect the change of mind of other people in other countries.
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Politics in the UK went completely wrong in the last few decades. The one thing you need for a successful democracy is opposing parties with different ideologies. The difference between Labour and Conservatives these days is that Labour is a totalitarian party, and the Conservatives are party that promotes division. There is not a lot of difference between them. The Liberal Democrats represent the left wing in British politics today, and they are hardly screaming communists. The problem when you have no real alternatives is that the independent parties tend to do really well, and that means that extreme politics rears its head. The BNP is doing quite nicely at the moment.
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Looking at the European elections it seems to be a drive in a few European countries to drive to the right wing of politics. I think this is a quite normal development and I think this will increase in some countries. Politics in these countries had to follow this mainstream and people in certain countries want to move to the right wing of politics, it is nothing but a democratic decision everybody should respect and encourage as a democratic development. Why people are preferring right wing politics has different reasons but it anyway democratic and people do not have to justify their political decisions. I think those who are backing a right wing politics will have their reasons for it.
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