Comment Re:UK has left-wing policies (Score 1) 614
Name me a government owned company...
The NHS is meant to be Britain's largest employer. The government does have control over a reasonable proportion of the commercial market. The public sector in the UK is, if I recall correctly, something like 30% to 40% of the total. The NHS, Police, Fire, local council funded projects like leisure centres etc. It all adds up.
That said, I agree with you about everything else. The UK always struck me as having middling politics, perhaps a little to the left but not really left wing or socialist by any measure. But I suppose it depends on where you are sitting. The US looks very right wing from here.
The NHS is meant to be Britain's largest employer. The government does have control over a reasonable proportion of the commercial market. The public sector in the UK is, if I recall correctly, something like 30% to 40% of the total. The NHS, Police, Fire, local council funded projects like leisure centres etc. It all adds up.
That said, I agree with you about everything else. The UK always struck me as having middling politics, perhaps a little to the left but not really left wing or socialist by any measure. But I suppose it depends on where you are sitting. The US looks very right wing from here.
