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What does a right wing government mean?

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Illte Wed 02-Sept-20 08:46:10

No, I think you have to revisit your statements.

A number of world "left wing governments" are extremely authoritarian, intolerant (to put it mildly) of other sources of pier and totally centralised. Vietnam, Cambodia, Russia, China to name a few.

Historically extreme left wing government has had pretty much the same outcomes as extreme right wing government. The circle closes.

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Humbertbear Wed 02-Sept-20 08:36:43

The back benchers want an end to furlough and all support to businesses, so that would be right wing.

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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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