The Right Wing Political Superheroes Thread

[Estreeter]

Who's you favourite right wing politician or commentator?

Mine, Former Aussie PM Tony Abbott The 1 thing I admired him for, more than anything, is that, after our 2010 Federal election, both parties were tied on seats won, and there were 3 independents who were willing to negotiate to form Government. Abbott flatly refused to negotiate and said he would prostitute the parties policies to form Government, and thus not being to fully deliver the campaign promises and issues. That is integrity.

[badman999]

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies that became known as Thatcherism - also known as "policies that work that people who didn't despise."

She stressed self-reliance and pragmatism, and while she is not without fault, she was probably one of the most influential politicians in the world, in her decade, plus in power.

[foxbat1]

Tony Blair. Best of a bad bunch.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by foxbat1

Tony Blair. Best of a bad bunch.

He was right wing

[dereknclive]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

He was right wing

Never underestimate how much the Left eats itself. The Estranged Wife described me as a proto-fascist last week for supporting Keir Starmer and the current Labour party.

My contribution is Rory Stewart.

[foxbat1]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

He was right wing

He was definitely right of centre. The UK hasn't had a left wing government since the 1970s.

That's why so many Tory voters voted for him. He was Tory-lite. Less dysfunctional, still fiscally and mostly socially conservative. Like Starmer is trying to be now.

[Alfac]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

He was right wing

I found this rather insightful response to that question online:

Tony Blair is only right wing in what they define as right wing. Their definition of what is right wing is anything that Corbyn does not support or anyone who has differing views to Corbyn. There are plenty of good Labour supporters who are passionate socialists and social democrats.

Being right of the Corbynistas leaves a lot of leeway before you become anything approaching right.

You can read his maiden speech to the House:

"I am a socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for cooperation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality."

Pity that view on socialism hasn't continued through those following in his footsteps.

[haroldeye]

Was that Blair's maiden speech or Corbyn's?

[badman999]

Ronald Wilson Reagan

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Swept into power by a growing realistion that a new socially and fiscally conservative America would do better than it had been. He won the Cold War.

He was essentially as close to a Libertatian as a modern politician can be, and I love him for that.

[Alfac]

Originally Posted by haroldeye

Was that Blair's maiden speech or Corbyn's?

That would be Tony's. Corbyn used his to let the House know he was bought & paid for by the Trade Unions.

I am sponsored by the National Union of Public Employees and until yesterday I was employed as an organiser for that union.