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Tory MPs 'still overwhelmingly Thatcherite' (Andrew Porter, 25/06/2008, Daily Telegraph)

The majority of new Conservative candidates selected to fight the next election are unabashed supporters of Margaret Thatcher's ideals, a new survey has disclosed.

They advocate lower taxes and are more concerned about terrorism than global warming. There is also still a very strong anti-European Union bias among Tory candidates.

...when a major party in the Anglosphere runs someone who isn't low tax, defensive of their national sovereignty, and at least tough-sounding on national security.

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Netroots feel jilted by Obama's FISA stand (CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 6/25/08, Politico)

When former Sen. John Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, the progressive Netroots took their affections to Barack Obama, defending him against attack from Hillary Rodham Clinton and others.

But with his support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies — a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster — the honeymoon has ended.

Disappointed over his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the online activists feel jilted and betrayed and have taken to questioning his progressive credentials. One prominent blogger, Atrios, has even given him the moniker “Wanker of the Day.”

He wouldn't govern like her, but he has to run as a Thatcherite.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 25, 2008 12:33 PM