Perhaps Enoch Powell if he's more conventional on FP and less Wallaceite on race. (Before you ask, yes, liberal Tories did make that comparison)
CCM: Thanks. So do you see any other candidate than Thatcher? Keith Joseph, but I don't think he'd be as successful.
But then you just have "radicalised classical liberal guy x", not Enoch Powell.Perhaps Enoch Powell if he's more conventional on FP and less Wallaceite on race.
Joseph was one of Thatcher's guiding lights so could be said to hav founded it
What's FP mean?Perhaps Enoch Powell if he's more conventional on FP and less Wallaceite on race. (Before you ask, yes, liberal Tories did make that comparison)
Bobbis: Preferably both. I know neoliberalism did not appear in Canada until Brian Mulroney was elected Tory leader in 1983 and PM in 1984. It took 16 years of "Trudeaupia" for neoliberalism to become viable here. In the US, I don't see anyone other than Goldwater or Reagan.
Heath was wetter than an Olympic pool, and I don't know enough about Oz to judge Fraser economically.
Maybe it's just me, but I can't see the man who gave the store away to the unions IOTL out-Thatchering Thatcher. In my research for High Wire Eire I didn't find the '70 Tory manifesto including the word "privatization" particularly not after the nationalization of RR.