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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I remember reading in Flip Chart Fairies that the sweet ground in politics which would gain most votes was being economically left wing (eg bailing out loss-making companies to retain jobs) and socially right wing (eg bring back the death sentence for some offences, don't let unskilled immigrants into the country, etc)

The Conservative Party under Johnson now ticks both boxes successfully. It has overturned previous Conservative thinking on state investment in industry. The Conservative Mayor of the Tees Valley won his seat on a promise to nationalise the local airport.

By following an interventionist approach in industry, it gives Labour less room to challenge the government and propose alternative ideas. At the moment, traditional home counties Conservative voters seem happy to go along with this approach as long as taxes don't rise but their house values do.

An excellent analysis, imo.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Typical Left-Wing nonsense. I am surprised you haven’t raised that old chestnut that Conservatives are just sitting back thinking of Empire!

Where has the Prime Minister said he will bring back the death penalty?

As for unskilled workers, we don’t need anymore of them if we have enough of our own. This was one of the things that Brexit was all about and it’s what people think. Politicians ignore what the public want at their peril.

OB, Andrew is referring to the minds of the red wall voters.