@GeorgismFan i don't think it's necessarily a vote loser (though just from memory the polling is against) but i don't see any evidence to say it's a vote *winner*, let alone the other points
Sweden (1970s)
Liberals: "Man I wish I built Folkhemmet, it should have been us!"
Moderates: "Yeah dude, we should spearfish poor people for fun, you, me and the center, we'd be unstoppable! Speaking of, where is the Centre?"
Olof Palme and Thorbjörn Fälldin:
We don’t need a weird alt history fantasy to know what Thatcher would have done with oil. Britain was a top 5 global producer and exporter in the 1980s. The Tories wasted the revenues paying for industrial devastation and dole queues as well as supporting an overvalued pound.
I'll just quote tweet this anon. As part of a broader expression of my unease that a lot of "anglofuture" and "accelerate Britain" and similar accounts have recently decided that manufacturing matters but are yet to deal with their background pro-Thatcherism. It's a big gap.
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@Sleek_Otter i think even though there won't be much actual impact on people's finances etc, my guess is that "raising tuition fees" is now so strongly tied to "betrayal" that, especially given existing sentiments among young people, it will have a strong negative impact
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Tuition fees will rise in line with inflation and maintenance grants will be restored for the poorest students under government plans to bolster the finances of struggling universities
The Times has been told that plans drawn up by officials would mean tuition fees, which have been frozen since 2017, rising by 13.5 per cent over the next five years to £10,500
Poorer students would be shielded from the impact by the reintroduction of maintenance grants, which were worth up to £3,500 until they were abolished by the Conservatives in 2016
https://t.co/ghwtUgRnmy