The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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    4 months ago

    Not a bad lisy actually, although I heavily disagree with the military and police budgets line… Authoritarian left regimes are known for very high police and military budgets even with heavily states controlled economies.

    Edit: police and military spending tends to relate more to the libertarian-authoritarian spectrum rather than the socioeconomic left-right spectrum

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      4 months ago

      Conservatism is tends towards some degree of authoritarianism.

      There are no policies that are uniquely conservative, or uniquely anything for that matter. When taken together, however, you can see conservativism form before your eyes.

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        4 months ago

        Eh, so does Western Liberalism and basically every other government for the last hundreds of years, I’d argue that they are even authoritarian to very similar degrees but about different things.

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          Right on the money about liberals not being too different from the less cooky conservatives, but there have been much more authoritarian systems and much less authoritarian systems in the last few hundred years.