Of course what the liberals hated about Corbyn wasn’t his social-democratic economic policies but his rigorous liberalism. If someone was a centrist ‘liberal’ he simply showed them up.
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Hence the irony. I’m not a card-carrying socialist. But I’ve come to see over the last 20 years or so that there’s been absolutely no increase in the social goods; health, education, housing. Nobody has dared to improve them for fear of …. for fear of what exactly? A label?
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The electorate hasn’t had the option of voting for anti-neoliberal party since perhaps 1992, maybe 1987 (until 2017).
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What an indictment, and a hangover from Thatcherism. Why weren’t lessons learned?
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There’s a lot at stake in making sure they’re not.
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