tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562283827976999003.post1029013816751915430..comments2013-09-19T14:03:38.399+01:00Comments on The Red Banker: THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE OF FRENCH POLITICSAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635749385748660522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562283827976999003.post-64714240673422760042013-01-31T13:39:37.781+00:002013-01-31T13:39:37.781+00:00James,
I truly apologise for the extreme long del...James,<br /><br />I truly apologise for the extreme long delay in replying. I suspect that what happened is that I deleted the email telling me I had a comment to answer to.<br /><br />As to the substance, I am not sure I am really saying electorates are moving to the right in Europe. Sure, the extreme right is popular but, apart from some socially conservative fig leaves, they're not classically conservative either and certainly not economically liberal.<br /><br />I was more trying to say that neither the right nor the left have the answers to our problems, the right because they're wrong and the left because they're too timid to do anything serious about the problems... :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02635749385748660522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562283827976999003.post-14324829504047168172012-11-23T22:10:50.486+00:002012-11-23T22:10:50.486+00:00Hi Fred,
This is an interesting one.
The argumen...Hi Fred,<br /><br />This is an interesting one.<br /><br />The argument that you're making here strikes me as a similar one to one of the points which Keith Jenkins makes in Rethinking History (i.e. that there has been a general drift to the right over time). As I understand it, Jenkins is also a staunch socialist. <br /><br />My view, as a conservative, is quite the reverse: that the electorate as a whole are moving away from both socially conservative and economically liberal positions. <br /><br />So, it looks as though neither of us are getting what we want. We both feel that the political parties we support are struggling to hold the line, and that the other side have the upper hand. <br /><br />JamesJamesnoreply@blogger.com