Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
i know you describe yourself as looney
but how f***ing looney do you have to be to describe Brown's thatcherite post blair new labour government as left wing?
you must have REALLY shat your pants over a trotskyite like Neil Kinnock
I don't think it's that looney to describe them as left wing. Their policy has been simply to tax and spend and tax and spend. We have seen the public sector mushroom to an almost unsustainable point within a supposed free Market economy, diktats come from the top intruding into every part of our lives like some sort of soviet style satellite country and it's clear that the government simply doesn't trust it's people to make decisions for themselves.
I'd say that makes it left wing with a very nasty strand of authoritarianism added. I understand it might not be your choice of left-wingism but to label it Thatcherite is IMO as misleading as it is wrong.