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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
[COLOR="Blue"]I sense that your view is based on the span between "left" (which we understand) and "right", which is perfectly reasonable.
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I think you believe the left is easier to understand because you're not within it so find it easier to paint it with a broad brush whereas you have a better understanding of the divisions with 'the right' so find it harder to define precisely. Left/Right classifications aren't perfect but we generally have a rough idea of what we mean.
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So Nads is saying that Boris was bigger State then Truss wants to be. She's a Conservative and should be criticising Boris rather than Truss (who seems useless to me, btw) for trying to release us from the pervasive state.
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Well, that's the divide within the Tory Party at the moment but Doris would say they were elected on a platform that didn't push lower taxes and a smaller state.
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Having said that, apart from high taxes because we have low productivity/growth, the real pervasive state is police behaviour in focusing on Twitter (armchair policing), bursting into people's homes, rather than taking on the bad guys. Almost "far-right" - under Boris.
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I think the police find it easier to deal with Twitter posts than crimes because it takes fewer resources and is an easy win for them. It's authoritarian but I think you need more than a few examples for it to be a far-right/fascist/authoritarian state.