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Originally Posted by Nehkara
The last thing most people want is someone to the RIGHT of the tories. I think most people are slowly leaning left as the "big business first and only" strategy shows its inability to solve problems in our current situation.
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The last thing most people want is someone SOCIALLY right of the tories.
People are starting to realize that running a government like a business does not make good governmental policy, but that does not mean that a right of centre economic policy that holds people accountable, taxes as little as possible and spends money pragmatically and as needed, when needed is no longer popular. Running the odd deficit budget is often a good thing, especially when the economy is in a downturn, and capital projects can be built as cheaply as possible... rather than creating a infrastructure crisis and spending like drunken sailors, competiting with the Oilpatch and other industries that are filling their coffers... driving everyone's costs up. When the PCs compete with private industry and start using rhetoric like "fair share", they sure as hell aren't being fiscally conservative.
Villainizing big business and making them uncomfortable is not a way to solve problems either. The PCs are doing that right now, and just watch the layoffs roll in and the capital leave.