Andy Beckett is broadly in line with what some of us have been thinking for a while.
The Conservatives usually are in government, they are going to be so for a long time yet, getting anything done therefore entails influencing them, and these days they turn out to be quite open to influences from the economic Left, unlike Labour, which has pretty much kicked it out.
This Government is economically to the left of last year's Labour manifesto. It is implementing policies that Jeremy Corbyn's supporters could not get through the Labour Party's labyrinthine committee system. And there are more to come.
But everything "loony" becomes common sense as soon as it is done by the Conservative Party, and by Boris Johnson in particular. Them's the rules. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
The Conservatives usually are in government, they are going to be so for a long time yet, getting anything done therefore entails influencing them, and these days they turn out to be quite open to influences from the economic Left, unlike Labour, which has pretty much kicked it out.
This Government is economically to the left of last year's Labour manifesto. It is implementing policies that Jeremy Corbyn's supporters could not get through the Labour Party's labyrinthine committee system. And there are more to come.
But everything "loony" becomes common sense as soon as it is done by the Conservative Party, and by Boris Johnson in particular. Them's the rules. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
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