Can you name any left-wing Conservative polices?

Central-right is not the opposite of liberal!!

If that's what you're suggesting.

Left-wingers can be authoritarian and right-wingers can be liberal.

For example, I would say our right-wing Tory party has been far more liberal recently than our 'left-wing' (less right-wing anyway) Labour party, who tried to push through 90 day detention, compulsory ID cards and DNA databases of innocent people.

There is no left and right wing, freedom is the one measure that matters. There is only authoritarian and libertarian.

Almost every government leans towards authoritarian in this day and age. Freedom means nothing to the state when its core function is to limit it.

Freedom? What does that mean?

The freedom to not be forcibly prevented from committing an act which does not infringe on the free acts of others.

That's capitalism out then.

Yeah good one. Don't bother posting your marxist rhetoric in here. I'm bored of it and it frankly is unhelpful.

Oh dear. I rattled you I see.

You know your definition of freedom leads to work or starve, "poverty is not unfreedom". You know you can't defend this.

There is no left and right wing, freedom is the one measure that matters. There is only authoritarian and libertarian.

Almost every government leans towards authoritarian in this day and age. Freedom means nothing to the state when its core function is to limit it.

You can't lump social freedom and economic freedom under the same banner. Supporting general 'freedom' is a reductionist blanket policy.

Being liberal is not the same as being left wing. Refer to the political compass, I know it's confusing

Generally speaking 'Left-Wing' policies tend to be interpreted as economic policies, whereas 'Right-Wing' policies are radical social policies. This, I think, arises because all parties are economically a ways to the right, and socially aways toward Libertarian, although obviously they are more centre than extreme.

So, I think there are plenty of liberal Tory policies, though no radical progressive legislation, which I don't see as a problem.

you are missing the point. They haven't removed the NHS, real terms NHS spending has actually increased.

The cuts are to make the system work for the more deserving case example- my dad can barely walk 100 yards. Next door there is a guy with a blue badge in his car that spends most of his time messing with said car and spending his job seekers. Are you seriously going to tell me that we should pay for him to do that, and deny people like my dad? Funding is NOT infinite.

The NHS ought to provide universal care first before it should even be considered to be doing its job and that at the moment is certainly not the case.

Thanks for telling me what my political ideals are. I had no idea I was completely against all forms of welfare. Sorry also for judging a man based on ability to contribute and not on his needs.

Economic freedom leads to social freedom.

But down in real terms. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-spending-has-been-cut-tories-forced-to-admit-8395976.html Either way its not recieving the funding it requires.

At the time I wrote the original post (10 months ago) the healthcare budget had increased in real terms year on year. However what the NHS does not need is a pile of money being thrown at it. What does need to happen is a sensible reform, to spend money on patients, rather than farces such as this (I know its the daily fail but the numbers don't lie) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006006/NHS--2-packet-pasta-cost-50-including-delivery.html


Is your dad being denied? Wouldn't surprise me with the way Atos are treating the disabled. Is your dad more deserving than this guy? Welcome to the DWP, please leave all common sense at the door. I'm not sure if you're being serious here, questioning whether someone unable to walk properly needs a parking permit so they can get closer to where they need to go




The NHS is one of if not the most efficient in the world. No amount of juggling targets and fiddling around with less efficient, more expensive private health care providers is going to fix the problems with the NHS. We either do away with universal free at the point of use care or we give it the funding it requires.

David Cameron is linked to the extreme left (communist) UAF (''Unite Against Fascism'') thug organisation, his signature is on their website, listed as a founding signatory.

The UAF are a thug communist group who attack children and women, this is what David Cameron supports.

Video: UAF - Celebrating Violence Against Women in Tower Hamlets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature&v=OJcG2C22okE

This is what Cameron has signed up for, and financially backs.

Funny how people on the right think Conservative are central left and people on the left think Labour are central right.

I wish there was a UKIP version of a left wing party - ie, further to the left than Labour. But populist opinion means we won't get that for a long time.

In answer to the question though, no I can't. Although far right people will think most of them are left wing, since their political spectrums are skewed.

Umm.... no they beat up the woman for being a nationalist.... She was in the EDL....

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