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Johann Hari's piece seems a bit naive.
I don't think the majority of the british public are all that left wing. It depends what questions you ask. And which answers you select.
I bet a majority of the british public want to bring back hanging, opposed the reduction of the gay age of consent to 16, want us out of the EU, and an end to immigration, lower welfare costs, etc. They are all pretty right-wing views. I don't think that politics has been about right and left wing since the end of the cold war. Socialism demonstably failed. So did capitalism. There is a consensus that a middle path is essential. That which I suppose we call social or liberal democracy.
He has a point, even if he does make it crudely. Newspapers and politicians collude to push certain issues into the fringes - so to be opposed to Britain's membership is now painted as a right-wing extremist position, whereas in 1973 it was mainstream Labour policy.
I'm a natural conservative I suppose, but I think it would be awesome if the Lib Dems took a majority and changed this country's politics forever.