On: Britain is the most corrupt country in the world?

[arethuza]

I was genuinely surprised that they use that phrase - what does socialism mean in that context? The NHS, opposition to zero hour contracts, basic human decency?

[pixel_fcker → arethuza]

Pretty sure in this context it's the redistribution of wealth part they're not keen on.

[_0ffh → pixel_fcker]

I think they're very much in favor of redistributing wealth. It's just the socialists' preferred direction of the redistribution that they don't agree with.

[ConfuciusSay02 → _0ffh]

Funny how they're massive socialists when it comes to supporting the military, but not when it comes to healthcare?

They're just self-hating socialists.

[Alphasite_ → ConfuciusSay02]

Honestly, they've been cutting government expenditure pretty heavily across the board (to the best of my knowledge) and military expenditure is way down.

[rmc → arethuza]

Firstly, remember that "socialism" is a dirty word in US politics, but not in EU politics. The UK Labour party does claim[1] to be a socialist party. Their homepage[2] has a link to "affiliated socialist societies".

However in this case, the tories are just scaremongering.

[1] They're not really socialist anymore, since Tony Blair & New Labour back in the 90s at least.