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What does a right wing government mean?

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Whitewavemark2 Wed 02-Sept-20 08:26:53

Someone posted that they don’t think that Johnson’s government is right wing enough, and I find that interesting.

I wonder what others consider a right wing government is, and what sort of policies it would/should follow.

I’ll kick off the debate with the following.

A right wing government is more authoritarian than a centrist or left wing government.

It is intolerant of other sources of power like the judiciary or civil service, media, academia, etc.

It tends to centralise power.

It may or may not be populist.

It believes in the “natural order” of things, and that the individual is paramount.

It does not believe in “society”

That’s a start

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Whitewavemark2 Wed 09-Sept-20 07:40:41

Johnson has now thrown a dead cat onto the table in the form of a Brexit Festival.

What larks!

I see another junior minister has resigned. The trouble with resignations is that it is largely the more decent ones who go which is having the effect of concentrating the rubbish.

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growstuff Wed 09-Sept-20 09:07:09

MayBee70

I don’t think ordinary people have been alienated. I think that ordinary people that are racist and extremely right wing feel empowered. And that’s what terrifies me at the moment.

I agree with you. I think that there has always been a racist and right-wing element in the UK (as elsewhere), but they're in a minority. A series of circumstances have meant that we have a government which wants to appease them to cover their own backs.

I also think that traditionally the British have been tolerant and have believed in free speech. People have grumbled about whatever government is in power, but I don't ever remember one which has just ripped up the rule book and I truly believe it's getting dangerous.

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Grandad1943 Wed 09-Sept-20 09:17:56

Brexit was always going to be a tearing up of the rule book exercise by its very nature. Under our first past the post electoral system the electorate polled in favour of that and now "that" is what we have.

Simple as that.

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