What's going on in London?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

”Conservatives are not evil, Brenus, they are ordinary people, not a mixture of Darth Vader and Sauron.”
I speak of politic not about people. Conservatives are probably nice in private life, educated and polite. I worked with some of them, and was always welcome in their home… But that is not the point. Their politic is to save their money and even to get more if possible. They have a genuine vision of society completed twisted by their Social Class. I had one of them explaining me that only the person trained (meaning them, of course) for power should have access to power as the illiterates have no clues about problems… Or the important persons should have priority for dentist or medical treatment, as their time is more valuable than the one of the workers…

That's a pretty big generalisation. Even with those types of Conservatives (I am more than happy to admit they exist) you have completely missed the point. The Conservative elitist is a Patrician, not a Capitalist, he gains power so that he might better serve his country - the connection with money is completely false, the sort of person you are talking about has his wealth in land and he has tenants to protect.

What you are doing is conflating Thatcherism and Toryism, they are not the same thing. Thatcher was a complete aberation in terms of Conservativism, she completely rejected the concept of shared civic responsibility in the community!

[gaelic cowboy]

What you are doing is conflating Thatcherism and Toryism, they are not the same thing. Thatcher was a complete aberation in terms of Conservativism, she completely rejected the concept of shared civic responsibility in the community!

While your right about the differ between Thatcherism and Toryism I would say that any return to Toryism is a dead end.

The main economic pre-occupation of a Tory would be to maintain value of various assets, in order to do this interest rates must and would have to be high to ensure these valuations, that is not going to be done anytime soon.