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Andy Beckett, (writing in the Guardian) has rightly argued that the right has noticed that things can’t go on as they are. Thatcherite free market capitalism doesn’t work in a period of increasing climate crisis. Solutions are varied, but the ideas of the far and fascist right are clearly getting a hearing, something that can clearly be observed in the Tory party.
An issue he doesn’t touch on is what the response of moderate social democracy is to this. It sometimes seems that it’s being dragged along with the political lurch to the right. Starmerism, meanwhile, appears to be focusing on changing as little as possible. Even the Thatcherites know that won’t work.
Keith Flett
London
Guardian 6th November 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/06/what-next-for-the-conservative-party
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