We are still enjoying the legacy of the social democratic era, a period when the left managed to get a foothold in british politics. Thats a legacy which is gradually fading. And at times, the left was highly effective at breaking the vicious cycle tat i'm talking about. In the 19 forties, when the left was perhaps at the height of its power in the united states, the top rates of income tax rose to 94%. For the first time in history, working class people in this country had decent housing,. often in the form ofhousing provided by the state council housing. We got the n h s.
The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet according to conservatives, it is precisely that self-regard, that attempt to monopolise virtue, which exposes the hypocrisy of left-wing ideology. In this archive debate from 2018, we gathered Labour MP Stella Creasy, environmental campaigner, journalist and author, George Monbiot, Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, and the leading philosopher of conservative thought, the late Roger Scruton, who sadly passed away in 2020, to discuss the issue of right vs left. Our host for the discussion was the journalist, broadcaster, visiting lecturer and Professor in the Humanities Council at Princeton University, Razia Iqbal.
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