is labour still to the left of the conservatives in british politics?
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the British Labour Party was from it's conception, a left wing socialist party, which championed workers rights.  However, as the UK became more prosperous their left-wing message, fell from grace.  Following on from the Conservative PM John Major, Tony Blair came to power on a mandate of policies which were slightly right of centre.  This had a greater appeal for the majority of British people, but many old Labourites felt as if the party had 'sold out' the grass-root members.
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Local council elections were yesterday with vote counting last night. The Conservatives won both the largest share of the vote and the largest number of net seats.\n\nThe BBC has good coverage on this:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2006/election_2006/default.stm
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The newly elected Democratic majority, which is slim, tend towards conservatism, unlike the liberals on Y!A.\n\nThat is my good news for the day.
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After the revolution in France the Government sat on the right hand side of the chamber from the front and the opposition on the left. This is the other way around in the British parliament.
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Leftist parties always allege that the rightist political parties are conservative as opposed to being progressive. So, the Leftist Parties in India are contradicting themselves by supporting a government which is having pro-capitalist economic programs only to keep the BJP out of power which is its born rival. The RSS is totally against Communist Party of India in all its factions as they are anti-nationalistic which was proved during pre-independent movement and the Chinese aggression in 1962.
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Veeery generaly speaking, the Left (liberal) and Right (conservative) of politics came out of the French Revolution.\n\nAt that time, the Left was more concerned with laws that protect people's rights, and the conservatives are more concerned with laws that protect property.  \n\nFrom this, the traditional Liberal and Conservatives have arisen.  No one politican or person exemplifies what the TRUE definition of the words are, but issue by issue, the sides of politics have been created by these factions.\n\nIf you ask me, the terms liberal and conservative are meaningless, because they can't capture the entire persons views, and a person who describes themselves as a dem, repub, liberal or conservative is doing an injustice to the political process.\n\nAll politicians agree that its not about sides, its about issues.  Not about teams, its about debate and progress.
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They're already there. Many years ago UK Labour politician Dennis Healey used the term "like being savaged by a dead sheep" when verbally attacked by the mild mannered Tory minister Geoffrey Howe.\n\nThe phrase has gone into history.\n\nMany MPs do exactly as their party whips tell them - I think that's pretty sheep-like too. So much for representing their constituencies.
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The three big ones are:\n1) Labour\n2) Conservative\n3) Liberal Democrat\n\nAlthough the BNP (British National Party) seem to be gaining momentum, unfortunately.
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Who are the conservatives i thought they were a Political party in the UK.\nDont tell me they have invaded America and no one told me.\nno seriously who are the Cons.
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Labour in UK.\n\nLabour/Lib Dems in Scotland.
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He has, quietly so no-one will notice. We have privatisation of the NHS, tax cuts for the rich (he's only committed to not doing tax cuts 'straight away', which is pretty much meaningless) and euro-scepticism. Same old Tories. He's put the words 'We're nice, now' in front of it', and tragically that's all people seem to hear.
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lol, I guess you have heard a response from a liberal, and I'll bet he is in a union.  I'm curious, how many times has he responded, "thats not my job!", when he is at work.  I'll refrain from telling the half a dozen negative stories regarding unions.\n\nAs for your answer, you seem to be making a point that in the middle is the way to go, which I agree with for the most part.\n\nYou say the right wing wants economic gaps.  I disagree with that.  The right, or conservative view, says if you work, you should be rewarded.  It is not a seperation of class, as you put it.  It is more about people doing something to better themselves, and be rewarded for it.\n\n The left wing, or liberals, aka. socialists, want to take what the workers have earned, and split it among everyone, including those who do not work.  These people do not work because they know that someone else will, and they will still get their share.  \n\nYou may often hear arguments such as, "ten percent of the people control 90% of the wealth".  I don't know how accdurate those numbers are, but I certainly am not one of those 10% of people.  I do know, however, that if I want a piece of that wealth, I can not sit on my butt and wait for my 'share' to get handed to me.  I have to go out and earn it.
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Of course they will.  In fact they'll probably blame the Tories whether they are in government or not.  Labour is all about lies and manipulation of the media.  God forbid they ever actually manage to tell the truth about anything!  \n\nI just want to know how many Labour cronies have ties to the construction companies and how much they're getting.
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Blair is still in power and his party is still a stooge to bush govt. so the chances are bleak.it will happen only when the british elect leftist government.
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I grew up in Taxachusetts.  Their entire delegation to the U.S. Congress is far-left Democrats, so your question is a very good one.  I've asked this of my family that still lives up there, because I was puzzled by it too.  What they tell me is that, despite their leftward bias, they still don't like paying high taxes, and they want a good economy.  So, at the state level, they have often elected moderately conservative Republicans for jobs like Governor, just to balance things out.  However, I don't think Romney is quite as conservative as you think on every issue.  He tends to be somewhat moderate on a few things, and that's what makes him palatable to voters up there.
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Is this a trick Q?  Following the stagflation that occured in the late 1970's (as a resuly of the Keynsian social democratic principles that characterised post-war politics) Thatcher and the conservatives followed liberalist political ideology as advocated by the likes of Hayek.. which included believing in private ownership and individual responsibility etc etc\n\nSo the effect Thatcher had on privatisation was to privatise many utilities/industries such as BT, BR, Steel etc  Some commentators argue that this increased efficiency and productivity..it certainly led to increased flexibility in the work place which for many workers may not be such a great phenomenon in the same way that trade union strangle holds were bad for business before.. (pendulum gone too far?) \n\nPossibly, but now that the major parties have resolved the big issues (Tories accepting some degree of social help needed/NHS to stay and Labour seeing that business must be competitive/privatisation has a place) both parties are fighting over middle ground so it can be said with a large degree of certainty that public ownership is likely to remain something that happened in the past.
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Probably they are, but let's still stick by our convictions and see if the new government will listen to what the majority of the people want.  They do need to work hard to gain more support before the 2008 elections.  Hopefully, they will listen to those who employ them.