New Labour did this -- they realised that the old, trade-unionist manual working class had gone, and its it place was a broad middle-class which wanted privatization, more choice, and all the issues that would have been considered right-wing, but which also valued public services (of which it is by far the largest user) and was socially relatively liberal.
The Tories now need to understand this too -- shouting 'Save the Pound' or 'Save the Countryside' or 'Ban immigrants' might makes the blue-rinse brigade at the back of the conference hall go all tingly, but it gets you stuck on 30% of the vote.
posted by Matthew @ 10/17/2002 09:46:00 AM
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