[lbo-talk] US v UK

[JAMES Heartfield]

Doug, citing Richard Seymour: 'Interesting that our Republicans don't feel
any need to re-invent themselves that way [like the UK Tories] - they just
keep railing on in the old fashion.'

Yes, but the conditions are very different: The Conservative Party lost the
last three elections and was thought to be near unelectable around 2007.
Cameron's repositioning of the party was modelled on  Tony Blair#s
remodelling of the labour party (both in their way modelled on Clinton
re-modelling of the Democratic Party in 1992.