tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post8998209956672680857..comments2023-10-27T07:50:27.411+01:00Comments on Next Left: Mapping a LibDem ideologyTom Hampsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05917325958130851128noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-80025837107372075582009-10-15T15:52:35.557+01:002009-10-15T15:52:35.557+01:00I think Philip Blonde's Right Communitarianism...I think Philip Blonde's Right Communitarianism is quite different to Camerons interpretation of Progressive Conservatism.<br /><br />Philip Blonde believes New Labour hasn'r redistributed wealth enough, and is against public service marketization, which he criticizes as the market state.<br /><br />Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state<br /><br />It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.<br /><br />David Cameron is a big fan of public service marketization, so in a sense his progressive conservatism is quite different to Blonde's Red Toryism._______https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750073111707564700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-58190569751175711992009-10-15T15:45:32.934+01:002009-10-15T15:45:32.934+01:00I think the Labour party is now becoming more ideo...I think the Labour party is now becoming more ideologically unified than in modern history.<br /><br />Compassites like Jon Cruddas, Ed Miliband and Neal Lawson seem completly relaxed about applying a more enlightened and compassionate liberalism to public services and are not particularly critical of New Labour's public service reforms.<br /><br /><br />Progressites like James Purnell and Tessa Jowell are basically applying that same enlightened and compassionate liberalism to public services, but just at a faster pace and more radically.<br /><br />I think different factions of the Labour party often misunderstand each other. Compass use to assume Progress were a bunch of unelightened uncompassionate liberal public service reformers, and Progress assumed Compass were Old Labour Utilities Stalinists who wanted to nationalize the commanding heights of the economy.<br /><br />In some ways, Progress is more left wing and redistributionist than Compass, as James Purnell and Jessica Asato have been pushing hard to get Universal Child Care and 2 years paid maternity/paternity leave created in the next 10 years.<br /><br />The Labour party factions are now realizing just how much they've got in common with each other and the party is slowly but surely becoming truly united. The challenge is to stop any destructive party dividers like John Harris from taking things backward._______https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750073111707564700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-36041773231703045052009-10-15T15:32:16.444+01:002009-10-15T15:32:16.444+01:00Nick Cleggs Liberalism is closer to Left Communita...Nick Cleggs Liberalism is closer to Left Communitarianism than Liberal Republicanism.<br /><br />The dividing line between the 2 camps of liberal progressives, is those who think choice is more important than security, and those who think security is more important than choice. The former, emphasize personal responsibility and individuals should be given means tested cash vouchers in education and healthcare sickness funds, and expected to top up the remaining money need out their own pocket. If they've spent all their money, it's tough luck and you end up uneducated or dead. The latter group is against personal responsibility in social welfare and advocates public services that are free of charge coupled with quasi-markets and budgets where it isn't too risky._______https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750073111707564700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7985429043801017839.post-710924784485296862009-10-15T15:25:57.938+01:002009-10-15T15:25:57.938+01:00Do you know what the teacher's unions do for y...Do you know what the teacher's unions do for your children?<br />Do you know why the founding fathers are not taught in school anymore?<br /><br />http://animal-farm.us/change/teachers-union-and-your-children-691Foxwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07930714608742643688noreply@blogger.com