The yellow tories

With Jo's voting record is it any wonder she would prefer a right winger from the Thatcher government to be caretaker PM rarther than a left wing socialist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/16/jo-swinson-lib-dems-clarke-harman-interim-pm-jeremy-corbyn-pressure

The yellow tories, don't be fooled guys

Between Corbyn and the divided Remoaners they really are the gift that keeps on giving.

For a conservative yes! For the rest of us it's face-palm time

And what is wrong with that? Good for them if that's how they feel. Your children would simply grow up very confused before coming out to your surprise and denial.

Whats wrong with that? Well nothing I guess another party that pretends to care for the poor and needy in society while creating and voting for polices that will cause them harm. Good old liberals least they are consistent, in the late 1970s it was the Liberals democratic party under David Steel who broke the Lab-Lib Pact which began the fall of the then Labour government. They voted with Margaret Thatcher to bring down the Labour government in the no-confidence debate in 1979 which led to 18 years of Conservative government. The liberals were no friends of the left then and they are no friends of the left now.

Whats wrong with that, well if they was honest that they and vote for disability, welfare cuts, for the bedroom tax ,etc. No wonder Jo wants a monument to Margaret Thatcher!

Unelectable

Blimey. So you are saying the Lib Dems are unelectable because of what they did in the 70s and 80s. Gosh!

"left wing" and "right wing" aren't meaningful insults.

You have already put up a strawman about what "right winger"s represent.

Comrade, what you describe is not an inherently "right-wing" thing.

The Gini index score for China, Vietnam, and Laos are actually worse than the United Kingdom's.

That's right because we had a period of socialism in the UK from the end up f the second wold war untill around 1979. In this period wealth was distributed a little more fair, slum were knocked down, unions gain power and workers stated earning a liveable wage.

I am speaking about UK poltics and the traditional right wing in the UK believe in corporate freedom, individual responsibility and the traditional left believe in employment regulations, group responsibility. To name but two.

That is fact

It's always fun when the otherwise-baffled suddenly realise the Liberal Democrats aren't socialists. The clue's in the name, guys!

I think the rather stranger proposition would be if an avowedly liberal party was to do anything to put someone who is effectively a Communist into government. It would be the end of them, and rightly so.

For eight of the past ten years, Jo Swinson has been a Member of Parliament. For five of them, she was a member of a party in the Coalition Government. For three of those five years, she was a Minister in that Coalition Government. That she supported the Coalition Government and voted with it should be a surprise to no-one.

Please can you highlight where you believe I have been confused or where I thought the Yellow Tories were socialists, or where anyone believes a liberal party should support communism? I believe the person who is confused here is yourself!

The facts remain, they are not very liberal and certainly not very democratic by the definition of the word. And certainly no friend of the left or of the poorest of society.

Yet we have virtually all become far wealthier and life has been made far easier by the fruits of economic progress.

Public spending as a proportion of GDP peaked during the Second World War, as you might expect. But it's worth noting that, post-war, even Attlee's government's spending as a proportion of our economy was more or less where it is now. It then dropped in the 1950s, before surging back up in the 1970s.

The reality of that post-war period in the UK is that we had a state that was far less supportive of its citizens than now. Even in terms of employment rights, let's consider the increase in employment rights that has occurred since the 1970s. For one, we can look at the far, far fewer people are dying in the workplace. Or that there is a now a regulated National Minimum Wage. Employment rights and decent working conditions are not the sole preserve of the left.