Itās ok. Youāve clarified. All good.
Iād rather not. Thatās the worst thing someone can do! Itās fine if you donāt want to have a go - I donāt blame you at all. I certainly wouldnāt in the current state of political affairs and mixed definitions!
Have a go? It is a fact that right-wing and far-right parties are increasing support across Europe. You might not like it, but a fact is still a fact.
Oh, I agree! As is the other faction.
I believe that some things, everywhere and nowhere, are increasing, while some things are decreasing and others are staying the same.
Think we can all agree with that.
Inspired by some of the recent discussion above, and recalling that when I started work the Conservative Party was fairly sanguine about the fact that many of our strategic industries were state controlled, I wondered what far left/right means to people today.
So, with that in mind, I thought Iād try to find out by asking you lot to give me a policy that you believe to be:
It is a commonly stated view that this forum is either socially and/or politically skewed to the left, so it would be interesting (to me, at least) to see how true that is.
Anyway, over to you.
Far left and Far right in essence have lost a lot of meaning as itās used primarily as a method of shutting down people who have left or right views that one might not agree with. So a lot of the discourse around Far L/R is often in bad faith and used more as a form of attack rather than genuine political ideology.
Although to provide my perspective on your question. I wonāt pick out any specific policies but get on my soapbox. Which no doubt many will disagree with.
I would say as a country the nation has lurched heavily over the last decade towards the right and the Overton window has shifted heavily toward the right and so with it a lot of things (welfare not aimed at OAPās, immigration, state control of utilities/services and minority rights) are seen as left wing ideology. A lot of these things are things that I would say as a child of the 90ās were accepted things that the state provided and were seen as the basics of civil society. However with the increasing Americanisation of parts of our politics and media weāve moved further towards the idea that welfare, immigration and minority rights are a fundamental attack on āthe british way of lifeā. This led to a lot of the arguments that were used in the Brexit debate by the leave campaign. Since then it has been a fundamental starting point of the conversations around immigration and things like trans rights etc.
Fundamentally Iām more of a centre left ānew labourā kind of guy and want to see the country returning to what felt like the sanity of politics and society I felt we had during the late 90ās early 00ās.
I know Iāve totally failed to answer your questionā¦
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Left. Funtimes.
Why are the Tories still trying to chase the parties who are further right wing with stuff like this? Just be a normal party that actually has a brain for once. They also seem to be oblivious that there is money to be made in renewables. Itās absolutely bonkers that some people want us moving away from green energy just because some idiots donāt believe the mountain of evidence about climate change and go crazy when they hear anything about the environment.
Politics has long been about attracting and keeping voters rather than doing whatās best for the country.
This will appeal to the Tory core demographic.
Boomers who dislike everyone elseā¦
Not bad news. Iāve been getting a few more Costa drinks recently, especially their ice drinks, and they are genuinely really nice. Not tried any of their matcha, but Caffe Neroās I find really nice.
Not really a surprise that it isnāt coffee that is the big success when the majority of Starbuckās sales are now in their cold drinks instead
Because there are people that donāt believe in climate change or believe the difference we make as a country is small and believe itās costing more to go green.
Ultimately the Tories are still chasing what they believe will win votes and not what is actually needed. Which shows they havenāt really changed or improved.
It roughly aligns with their voters skepticism for the environment and āred tapeā.
But more importantly, they have to throw in a few policies that will please potential large donors. Reform has itās cryptocurrency policies, labour has its large government contracts itāll create and dish outā¦ tories have to have something 
Worth noting that Scotland are planning something similar.
In some ways, reducing the number of Quangos actually increases political responsibility/oversight over decisions - rather than them being able to blame a different organisation.
I didnāt take any of this away from the article. Thereās literally no mention of energy at all.
It looks like the Tories want to streamline/decrease regulation to make building easier. There are obviously tradeoffs involved with this, but itās also a more realistic strategy to actually boosti economic growth.
Or we could justā¦ tax the billionaires!!!
Never gonna happen, even if it is a logical step.
While the tax system is not fair, going after billionaires ultimately risks raising taxes for everyone, sadly. So donāt happen.
Genuinely curious as to why this would be the case?
What exactly makes it a logical step? Is it a really panacea to solve all our funding problems?
Or will it just make Lefties feel good about sticking it to the man, whilst making us no better, or even worse, off.
