A Touch of Tory 'Nanny State' - but at Least the Debate has Begun the Decline of Family Cannot Be Resolved by Tax Alone
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YOU may not have noticed, but yesterday marked a historical reckoning of sorts for the Conservative Party. In publishing a major report on social breakdown in Britain, something David Cameron is clearly concerned about, the Tories openly acknowledged the disastrous flip-side of the high-octane neo-liberal economy created by Margaret Thatcher.
The great paradox of Thatch-erism was that in "rescuing" Britain from a post-war social democratic consensus that had been broken by economic stagnation, fiscal crisis and industrial conflict in the Seventies, it simultaneously undermined social cohesion and institutional tradition.See the full content of this document
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A Touch of Tory 'Nanny State' - but at Least the Debate has Begun the Decline of Family Cannot Be Resolved by Tax Alone
It is no coincidence that the Tories have been unelectable in the last three elections. Only now, under David Cameron, are they moving back towards that old paternal Tory liberali...
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