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Short-term thinking has been the fatal tendency of the Conservative governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010.

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[–] samc 5 points 5 months ago

I suppose a complete history of Tory government was out of scope for what's already a dissertation-length essay.

Actually, at the end the author begins to slightly contradict himself by arguing that (neo-)Thatcherism is the long-term objective of the conservatives. I suppose the consistent narrative is that the Tories have a long-term commitment to policies that can only ever yield short-term gains.

This does lead to the rather dire conclusion that British politics is stuck in a cycle where Labour slowly rebuilds the British state, only for the Tories to sack it the instant our fickle support for progressive government waivers.