The National Conservatism Conference in UK is currently battering this specific topic pretty hard.
- Miriam Cates' speech - Anti-Liberal Conservative PM
- Melanie Phillips speech - Liberal "mugged by reality", and what is being called a "Reactionary Feminist"
My only problem is how they rail against Thatcher and free markets, never once seeming to grasp that despite Thatcher's personal comments, she instituted nothing even close to economic liberalism, but instead introduced something close to what we currently recognize as the "East Asian Model of Communism" by creating Free Economic Zones within an already fully Socialist Britain. She didn't even deregulate the economy to the point that Chile would have been familiar with under Pinochet & his Chicago-School economic system. She did not "fetishize" the free-market, she simply liberalized an already Socialist Britain to a minor degree.
Pinochet is more economically Liberal than Thatcher. That's how far to the Left the UK has been.
It's fucking annoying that nobody in England seems to be able to see this. You can tell how retarded their concept of Libertarianism is considering the claims that the Lockdowns were Libertarian.
And don't get me started on the fucking idiocy of Phillips' comment that the British Civil Service was politicized only after Thatcher. You don't think the Civil Service has been a den of Leftist praxiology for over 100 years? I do. The US Stated Department was founded by Fabian Socialists. The Fabian Society was founded... in England. What do you fucking think they did?
The National Conservatism Conference in UK is currently battering this specific topic pretty hard.