I'm not sure why you should be surprised it was a Conservative making a stand on this.
If you boil the two main parties down to the basics, Labour are typically the ones who are all about state interference (taxing and spending, nationalisation, regulation, the nanny state); whereas the Tories are about minimising such things (tax cuts, privatisation, free market economics, letting people/businesses sink or swim).
What'll happen is that Europe will knock this issue off the headlines for a while. Should be an interesting by-election though...
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Date: 2008-06-14 03:17 pm (UTC)If you boil the two main parties down to the basics, Labour are typically the ones who are all about state interference (taxing and spending, nationalisation, regulation, the nanny state); whereas the Tories are about minimising such things (tax cuts, privatisation, free market economics, letting people/businesses sink or swim).
What'll happen is that Europe will knock this issue off the headlines for a while. Should be an interesting by-election though...