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> the conservatives have largely withered on the vine becoming merely another center left party.

Excuse me, WHAT?! I can't imagine what else you could write to signal so clearly that nobody should take anything you write seriously.

Even Labour barely comes across as center-left anymore. The Tories have never been.

I would hope that the LibDems and the Greens would strongly oppose this use of the OSA, but I haven't seen that they do.



Sounds like you're Old Left? The left's positions have changed since 1900 you know.

Labour is fully committed to mass immigration and "diversity", refuses to reduce welfare by even a penny despite imminent financial crisis, has implemented big tax rises, has soaked the rich so much they're all leaving, and this article is about it enforcing heavy handed regulation of information distribution. All that sounds very left wing to me, judged by the modern goals the left have.


Censorship has always been more of a conservative thing. But really more of an authoritarian thing, once you manage to get your head out of one-dimensional political thinking.

But if you want left-right, "helping the poor and disenfranchised" is left, "helping the rich and powerful" is right, and while details have moved around, that core never changed. I don't see conservatives anywhere do much for the poor, and they still love disenfranchising people. It's more that formerly left-wing parties, including Labour, have moved to the right since the neoliberalism of the 1990s.




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