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Why Labour shouldn’t shift right | John McTernan (www.newstatesman.com)
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Yeah, me again. I don't know why all the Blairites are posting bangers today, but this time it's Johnny McT's turn to argue for social democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Further right. They are already 70-80s Tory right wing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They obviously aren't though lol.

Thatcher wasn't going around nationalising things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

She also was very careful on what she chose to privatise. As the party did not support it.

The pre 1979 Tory party has to be convinced to call for BT privatisation. s most considered it utilities and expected nationalisation. It took till the early 90s to convince the party as a whole that the nation wanted rail and utilities nationalised.