Controlling immigration policy is one area that conflicts with a lot of parties, but would fit that party description. Having strict immigration control is left wing economically (state intervention in the labour market), and right wing socially (cultural preservation). It's probably why the Conservatives spent 14 years promising to cut migration, but at the same time doing nothing towards achieving that; they wanted to win other right wing socially people, while still satisfying right wing economically people.
The French left is very much disorganised, everyone disagrees with everyone. And everybody knows that the next president will very likely be Marine Le Pen
I don't think it's particularly likely that marine Le Pen will win the next presidential election. The politics are a confused and adversarial mess, largely due to Macron and Melenchon having wild insatiable egos. It's still a struggle to see LePen winning the runoff though.
Whilst I do factually agree that the two are not incompatible, I do sometimes feel that within the political landscape, social issues end up "stealing the oxygen" from left-wing economic issues.
That's a view that has certainly become popular in the US, particularly in the hands of billionaires trying to use those sorts of arguments.
At the risk of repeating someone on I have yet to read the entire thread... They'll have the same!
Seems to me there are more dimensions to the problem than that. For instance where does Musk's "absolute freedom of speech" fit? And many with rightist views on sexuality, abortion etc. think that "the rich" should be taxed more and are in favour of the NHS.
Indeed, but then a fair few of them also tend to have rightist views on immigration and so on, and the factions end up becoming more and more split: in that sense, I'm glad I'm politically homeless, so that I have no real need to wade into this sort of murk! I do think that it is the more socially conservative left that lack an obvious party, as opposed to the liberal left, but I suppose that there's just an element of "grass is greener" rather than any considered thinking behind that.
I'd agree with this - although I prefer "liberal" and "conservative" to "libertarian" and "authoritarian", simply because the latter connotes dictatorships and I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. I do find it interesting that the left-conservative quarter tends to be seen as a strange paradox, given my belief is that a move too far down the political compass is intrinsically right-wing, as it fosters a more individualised society, but I'm probably the last person in the world to consult on how normal society operates!
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The irresistible Farge vs the immovable Enoch. Fourth division willy waving.As someone who dislikes both Badenoch and Farage, is it possible for both to lose in this one?
The answer is the same as it would be if the question was, why spend four years at uni to be a nurse or a social worker?
As someone who dislikes both Badenoch and Farage, is it possible for both to lose in this one?
Vocation does not pay tax - profits do, and profits are very small relative to assets employed. The target Rate of Return for a normal industry is typically between 5% and 10%; for the farming sector in 2022/23, it was 0.5% https://www.gov.uk/government/stati...-performance-england-202223-statistics-notice.
Going to university doesn't cost millions.
As part of a rearguard action to stay in the news I suppose it has a degree of merit. It's definitely less pathetic than the current actual leadership celebrating because Badenoch tweeted something so deranged that Elmo retweeted it.
Do you think Truss is going for the "any publicity is good publicity" tactic by saying the most unhinged nonsense for clicks, or do you think is she just genuinely that deluded?
she is unhinged.
Truss was accused of 'crashing the economy' because the 10 year bond rates rose to 4.747%. The rates today, under Rachel Reeves, are 4.796%. So why isn't Reeves being accused of being worse than Truss and 'crashing the economy'?
I am unsure that the accusations are based solely on bond rates?
Preferably not, but doubtless you will anyway
