Is the Republican party the most right-wing major party in the world?

[k-onmmunist]

No, the Conservative Party are to the right of the Republicans.

[k-onmmunist]

Serious question. I know there's like facsist parties and stuff but they aren't that big. Being one of the 2 major parties with their policies seems like a farce.

Are they really much to the right of the Liberals?

No, the Conservative Party are to the right of the Republicans.

I don't see this.

Even the Republicans wouldn't have the balls to privatize the police/roads. The Tories are way more right wing than the GOP on the economy.

[k-onmmunist]

I'm with Winston on the Tories generally being to the right of the Republicans in practice (though I must point out that the Tories haven't privatized the police or roads).

The Tories have been far more dogmatically anti-welfare than the Republicans too, though the US welfare state is/was much smaller than the British one.

[k-onmmunist]

Of rather more importance is quite how right-wing the Democratic Party is these days. Much more so than most people realise.

The modern Democratic Party's always had a right wing faction, especially in the South. Then again, Obama's proven even more of a neoconservative than Bush...

[k-onmmunist]

The Democrats are currently more left wing than they've probably been at any point since FDR, but that's primarily due to the decimation of the Blue Dogs. And it's quite a bit of an oversimplification I think to basically label the whole party right wing based on what had more to do with incompetence than anything else, like note lots of state party platforms which are all for single payer health care and full gay marriage. But a union of 51 smaller parties is going to have quite a few issues in getting a consistent platform to carry out what we want.

That isn't really left wing though, it's normal for most of developed world, right wing parties don't dare touch the single health payer everywhere except UK. How about lower work week and/or vacation time, living wage, etc. Or even free public college tuition.

Until recently they said they wouldn't touch it here. Goes to show, the right wing can get away with murder quite easily.

[k-onmmunist]

The Republicans claim to be fiscally conservative but always turn out to be fiscally incontinent and leave the books severely unbalanced when they lose , whereas the Tories  eliminate budget deficits and leave the economy in great shape with low inflation.

And no manufacturing/a fraud-ridden banking sector. Thanks!

[k-onmmunist]

You Must have missed the part where our Manufacturing Sector is larger than France's.
Even the current government admit Manufacturing ought to be larger, but the way to grow it is to encourage enterprise. The last time the government interfered with things like car making we ended up with British Leyland.

Alright alright, here's where you have a point. However, British Leyland was an example of how NOT to nationalize an industry. You took about 20 different car companies and merged them with little rhyme or reason into one big enterprise. It was simply too big and there were far too many models of car - from the 30s to the 60s, if you owned a British car it was a stamp of quality - you knew things which were made in Britain were reliable, trustworthy, efficient vehicles. Then in the 70s, things took a major plunge and the cars we made were, for lack of a better word, crap.

The best solution to the problem of British Leyland would have been to sack a crapload of models, split it into maybe 15 companies and then sell it to the workers (which gets rid of yr. union problems to a large extent - why would the workers go on strike if they own the company?). Combine that with a regime of tariffs and you would still have a strong domestic automobile industry today. Unfortunately, the Thatcherite solution was simply to sell it off and hope for the best...