From a document After the Coalition: A Conservative Agenda for Britain, primarily written by Dominic Raaaaaaaaaaaab, Tory MP:
"The last 30 years of public debate in Britain has been dominated by leftwing thinking…”
It’s all there in black and white. Being exact, “the last 30 years” means since 1982. Since 1982 there have been 15 years of Tory government and two years of Tory-led government. In between there were the Blair/Brown years. New Labour was rightly described as Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement. Mad, isn’t it?
This is where the destruction/abandonment of class-based politics gets you. This is anti-logic in action. This is what we have to look forward to if the forward march of the austerity is not turned back.
The statement aims to frame the debate even further to the right, useful for a group of right-wing thinkers wanting to hack away at employment law, trade union rights and generally drive working class living standards down to Chinese levels. It is also a mobilising statement.
Since universal suffrage the Tories economic base, the high bourgeoisie, has never been big enough to win elections. Its electoral base, the middle class, is shrinking also. As they have nothing to really offer the working class, it is perfectly plausible that the Tory tactics will become more Jacobin-like. They will seek to mobilise people and bind them together on some ideological basis, religion, racism, small-state fanaticism and such like, to achieve right-wing goals. While this isn’t fascism it would be borrowing from fascism. After the coalition expect a British Tea Party to be launched, especially if there is Labour led-government.
A revolution against the revolution (the American hard-right uses revolutionary rhetoric all the time) is impossible without an enemy and an order to overcome. It makes perfect sense, from that perspective to say "the last 30 years of public debate in Britain has been dominated by leftwing thinking…” It’s not true, of course, but don’t like little considerations like that get in the way of your argument.