People who believe in the Welfare State, workers’ rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, and a base of real property from which every household could resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State, while at the same time believing in the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, controlled importation and immigration, and a realistic foreign policy.
Or have I missed something?
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@rockinpaddy (twitter) says you have. Look him up- inspirational guy.
ReplyDeleteHow about opposition to political correctness?
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It seems mostly to be about that rather peculiar man who is Mayor of Doncaster. (A very well-placed, still nominally Labour figure in these parts tells me that those still angry at the creation of the unitary authority are considering getting up a petitition for a referendum on a County Durham elected mayor.)
ReplyDeletePatrick, are you blogging again? I hope so.
You miss out advocates of patriarchy, though possibly they come under believers in "traditional moral and social values".
ReplyDeleteAlso perhaps excluded from your list are people who had faith in the Festival of Light and Moral Rearmament who have lacked leadership since Mary Whitehouse was at her most active. Ditto? Plus "lovers of 'all forms of art'".
No, you have not missed anything Mr. Lindsay, and we have the same problem here in the States. Although, while a large number of former New Deal Democrats now vote Republican, have many Old Labour voters switched to the Tories? Were there or are there "Thatcher Labour" voters like there were/are "Reagan Democrats?"
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, someone purporting to be the late Mrs Whitehouse (a sometime Labour voter, as she missed no opportunity to point out) is now my friend on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteMr. Piccolo, oh yes, there were people whose families had voted Labour, and who themselves had started out doing so, but who then voted for Thatcher, and for Mjaor in 1992. Quite how many is more open to debate.