www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/02/riseoftheredtories
by Philip Blond.The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British politics. Labour is moribund. But David Cameron has a chance to develop a "red Tory" communitarianism, socially conservative but sceptical of neoliberal economics......
.....if Conservatives are to take power from the market state and give it to the people, they must develop a full-blooded “new localism” which works to empower communities and builds new, vibrant local economies that can uphold the party’s civic vision.
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How will this happen? What must Cameron’s priorities be, and how can he begin to build a new communitarian Tory settlement?........