Conservative think tanks and right wing realpolitik

Part of the offensive Tory lifestyle
marketing of Cameron

What do right wing fascists and right wing Tories have in common? Anything?

If you live in a capitalist system and that system is under threat then the response of the most powerful stakeholders in that system is to abolish democracy and all forms of protest and install a military-fascist dictatorship when capitalism is threatened.

Cameron pretends to be a compassionate Conservative, a so called Red Tory. Some Tory marketeers even have the temerity to produce T-shirts with the face of David Cameron as Che Guevara. This is the man that fronts the compassionate party with links to the ultra-right in Europe.

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We like to forget just how popular Hitler was with the upper class in Britain in the 20s and 30s. Too many in the British establishment thought Hitler was setting Germany to rights before and after he took power.

David Cameron's aristcratic forebears, on the whole, approved of Hitler and of eliminating the chaos caused by the enemy within: the striking workers, the demonstrating Communists and Socialists. The British establishment was also, on the whole, racist - anti-semitic.

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But what is the connection between the "right" of a mass murdering fascists like Hitler and the right of a soft Red Tory? 

Well the point is that capitalism is not really under attack in Britain. They can still afford to look caring at home. But look at what the Tories want to do. They use Orwellian language, they use double-speak and the language of Bernays. The life-style marketeers use words like community and compassion to disguise the fact that they want to roll back the achievements of the Labour government of 1945.


The Conservatives have a plan to privatise education and the NHS and every other aspect of the public sector with the exception of the army and police. These they see, rightly, as the defenders of the establishment. Just how touchy-feely is that? Not very.
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In 1975 though, according to documents released under the freedom of information act, there were preparations in place for a coup d'etat against Wilson. No, really, there were. At the time the New Statesman and I think it was Duncan Campbell who exposed it, ran articles on the plot by the right in Britain. It was dismissed in the rest of the press and by politicians as a conspiracy theory, but it turns out that the New Statesman was right all along.
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Not much has been made of this revelation since. Remember this was one year before the communist participation in Italy was sabotaged by a well-funded covert campaign and the same year when left leaning leader in Australia, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed as Prime Minister by the governor general of Australia. Things don't have to go too far to the left before the right stops being cuddly and thoughtful and instead starts to show its sharp teeth.
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When there is no direct threat to vested interest and the status quo, the recourse of the right is not mass killings in stadiums and coup d'etats or the iron fist, but ideological warfare in order to entrench inequality in our society and permit the continued control by those people and interest groups who are rich and powerful and to ensure that ordinary citizens have little or no influence and are no threat.
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The following institutions listed display the ideological weaponry in waiting of the right. Some of them are wolves in sheeps' clothing. Some of them are just wolves. My grandfather always used to quote his boss, the head of Bernard Moteurs, who said:
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"I always read L'Humanite" (the French Communist newspaper) because I need to know what the enemy is thinking."


Well glance through the guff on these right wing websites. See if you can identify the strategies that they are using to manipulate public opinion. Expose them on your blog sites. See if you can flush the ultra-rightists from the soft Red Tory undergrowth they hide under. In particular pay attention to the the profound double-speak of Philip Blond on his Tory blog ResPublica.

Play flush the "compassionate Conservative and watch right wing canards take off from the Internet long grass.

Young Britons Foundation
Adam Smith Institute
Bruges Group
Centre for Policy Studies
Centre for Social Cohesion
Civitas
European Foundation
Freedom Association
Henry Jackson Society
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Institute Of Directors
Institute of Economic Affairs
Migration Watch
New Culture Forum
Open Europe
Policy Exchange
Policy Institute
Politeia
Progressive Vision
Reform
Social Affairs Unit
Social Market Foundation
Stockholm Network
Taxpayers' Alliance
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Legatum Institute
Respublica

American Enterprise Institute
Association for Liberal Thinking (Turkey)
Atlantic Bridge (UK/US)
Atlantic Partnership (UK/US)
Australian Polity
Center for Economic Development (Bulgaria)
Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Montenegro)
Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (Romania)
Center for Liberal-Democratic Studies (Serbia)
Center for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria)
Centre for Independent Studies (Aus)
Centre for Liberal Strategies (Bulgaria)
Club For Growth (US)
Club Nouveau Siécle (Fr)
Competitive Enterprise Institute (US)
Economic Policy Research Institute (Macedonia)
Ekome (Greece)
Ethics and Public Policy Center (US)
Fondation Concorde (Fr)
Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Fr)
Fondation Robert Schuman (Fr)
Fraser Institute (Can)
Free Market Center (Serbia)
Free Market Foundation (SA)
Globalisation Institute (EU)
Hellenic Leadership Institute (Greece)
Heritage Foundation (US)
Hoover Institution (US)
Hudson Institute (US)
Institut Turgot (Fr)
Institute for Market Economics (Bulgaria)
Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (Montenegro)
Institute of Public Affairs (Aus)
International Democrat Union
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (Israel)
Leadership Institute (US)
Liberté Chérie (Fr)
Manhattan Institute (US)
Maxim Institute (NZ)
Menzies Research Centre (Australia)
Montreal Economic Institute (Can)
Movement for European Reform (EU)
Riinvest (Kosovo)
Romania Thinktank
Society for Individual Liberty (Bulgaria)
Stockholm Network (Europe)
Taxpayers Federation (Can)
Thatcher Center for Freedom (US)