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Liberal Conservatives are their natural bed-fellows, Labour, not so much. Not even a tiny bit. Not even New Labour.
Why do you say this specifically? I find it interesting as I'd say they seem closer to the left than the right - e.g. happy to increase taxes to fund public expenditure (look at their proposals re. The NHS in last prospectus, for example).
They don't have an ideological drive for a small state, which is one of the main factors I'd identify with the Tories.
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don't have an ideological drive for a small state
Is that true?
I'd have said practically they don't have a drive for a small state. Ideologically they have a fairly libitarian streak, with issues like civil liberties being particularly important - in a way which Labour can't be because of the inheritantly coercive nature of socialism.
hugo7
Yeah yeah but they would never, ever have done this. Despite their lovable image - derived mostly from them never actually being in power in living memory - Liberal Conservatives are their natural bed-fellows, Labour, not so much. Not even a tiny bit. Not even New Labour.
But we can - in the coalition, right to rent is blocked. Post coalition, immediate implementation of right to rent.