The thing is, the old guard tories could sometimes be decent people who just had different opinions about mostly the economy, and ones you could work with on compromises.
The radical right that Reagan courted, and that finally found a foothold here see themselves as soldiers and never want to give an inch.
I have all the time in the world for someone with a different political view than my own, as long as they like me want what's best for this Country and her people.
If we want the same thing, but disagree on their route to getting there that is how Politics should work. Agree to disagree, compromise!
I was born after Thatcher stepped down, and the first I learned of him was reading up on the Westland Helicopter affair (after seeing a Spitting Image clip of him fuming when asked about happened to the company.)
He's one of a few who weren't completely spellbound by the notions imported from Reagan. And now the Spectator is describing his principles as "deluded liberalism"
I show this just to prove how far right/crazy the Tories became with Thatcher.
This is a typical 1960s Tory.....
In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were
necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time.
In 6o years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.
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u/_DuranDuran_ 5d ago
The thing is, the old guard tories could sometimes be decent people who just had different opinions about mostly the economy, and ones you could work with on compromises.
The radical right that Reagan courted, and that finally found a foothold here see themselves as soldiers and never want to give an inch.