Britain’s economic model is broken: this is our first post-crash election | Aditya Chakrabortty
by Aditya Chakrabortty from Economics | The Guardian on (#2S06V)
Pundits pretend that Corbyn and May are poles apart. But both understand that the financial crisis changed everything - and a new ideological era is beginning
Seen from a sofa, the world looks very different. And to listen to TV's sofa pundits is to hear a very different election. They would have you believe that Labour and the Conservatives have rarely been further apart. That voters face "a clear choice" between a hard left and a Brextremist right, the inedible and the unpalatable. Plausible and conventional, it's a classic sofa argument.
It also misses the critical change in this election.
The Conservative manifesto is closer to Labour's than at any point since the second world war
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