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You're basically describing progressive conservatism which is growing rapidly in Europe. As opposed to what we have, which is 40 year old fiscal conservatism, which has been a completely failed experiment which they seem to want to repeat because this time it'll work, right?
Its just such bullshit. The average UK household earns less now than it did in 1990, adjusted for inflation.
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I don't believe progressive conservatism exists outside of studies. You may get people saying they belive in social progressivism and economic liberalism but they're fundamentally at odds with each other. It takes a certain kind of cognitive dissonance to say you believe in social services while also saying you believe in liberalism.
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That pie thing is such a shit analogy I can't even explain.
I think the thing that pisses me off most about the Tories is how everything they do seems to be trying to get away with something for their own personal or idealogical benefit. It's simple economics to know a stuff like a skilled and healthy workforce can produce great value than a sickly, unskilled one. More money kicking around should mean a higher standard of living for everyone. Instead we've got shitheals trying to dismantle our health care system, defund education, remove university courses, reduce social help and force everyone in to a kind of libertaran hellscape in pursuit of some 60 years out of date free market ideals. If anyone in power actually gave 2 shits about the quality of life of the every day person they could do something as simple as increase funding for local councils. Instead we're left with haunted husks more interested in tanking the value of the £ for their investments.