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Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 08:52:09 JST Jonathan Schofield
- Richard Murphy
My thanks to Sven – https://mathstodon.xyz/@SvenGeier/114819445178105464 – for reconnecting me with this which I saw a while ago but had been unable to rediscover.
I now know, courtesy of a post on @RichardJMurphy’s blog – https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/26/from-centre-right-to-hard-left/ – that it was a letter to The New Statesman in 2023
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1. “In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.” Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire.
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  From centre right to hard left
  
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  This was drawn to my attention today by commentator John Boxall. It was in The New Statesman in 2023: In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy,...

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