Miguel Cruz wrote:
> chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn
wrote:
> > Indeed, take Blair on several economic and social issues, and he makes
> > most US Democrats seem further to the right. It's a good illustration of
> > how far apart US and UK politics actually are.
>
> It's also an illustration of the fact that you can't just map all viewpoints
> on all political issues onto a single one-dimensional spectrum. Like, for
> example, Tony Blair, I have some viewpoints that are to the right of the US
> Democratic Party platform and some that are to the left. Just not
> necessarily the same ones as Blair.
If you removed Blair's puzzling stance on Iraq, he's pretty much
standard on a lot of issues for a European left of centre (not hard
left) politician.
David
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