Listening to a program on R4 earlier. Comparing the Tory Primrose League of the 1880's with Labour's current Momentum movement.
In the 1880's the Tory's were weak in the countryside and they established the Primrose League to build their voter base.
The Momentum lady on R4 tonight observed that it was now the reverse and that the Tories were weak in urban areas. She also made the predictable Momentum / hard Socialist economic points about public ownership etc etc.
She was then asked what the Tories could do to rebuild their urban support. Without any hesitation the Momentum lady said that they need to make it possible for urban dwellers to buy their own houses.
I really don't think she saw the irony. Nor I suspect would she consider the Thatcherite implications of what she was saying.
As I say, curious.
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