The best source on attitudes is the British Social Attitudes survey. It shows that 7% say they want taxes and spending reduced, 40% want them at the current level and 52% say they want them increased. https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-rep ... ality.aspxnoggins wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 12:54 pmI dont buy the public being leftwing economically.
I think most people want to have their cake and eat it, and if you ask them “do you want public services X Y and Z to be well funded?” they’ll say “Yes” and if you ask them “do you want lower taxes?” they’ll say “Yes”.
And poll leftwingness is a reaction to 12 years of toryism.
Give em 4-8 years of Labour and theyll be frothing at the mouth for free enterprise.
So by that the Truss administration is way to the right economically.
But of course there are major caveats. As you write, it’s one thing to say something in a survey, another to vote for a policy.
Secondly, what do we mean by left wing? There’s people here and elsewhere willing to denounce Labour as no different from the Tories. In those terms the UK electorate isn’t left wing (so long as that’s conceived as radically changing society rather than adding a few percent to tax rates).