Japan’s governing party leader, Sanae Takaichi, is on track to become the country’s first female prime minister, after finding a badly needed replacement for a crucial partner that left her Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition.
Yes, socially. But also a weird flavor of Japanese conservatism economically. She supports strong economic interventionism, massive stimulus funded by additional debt, cash distribution, etc. Not at all a free market type.
I was commenting the other day on how she says that Margaret Thatcher is her greatest hero, but that she’s an advocate of economic policy more in line with Shinzo Abe’s stuff, which really isn’t in line with Thatcher.
IIRC Liz Truss had some similar statement, and the policy that she went for during her time as Prime Minister was also pretty loose.
Like MORE ultra conservative to standard Japan politics?
Yes, socially. But also a weird flavor of Japanese conservatism economically. She supports strong economic interventionism, massive stimulus funded by additional debt, cash distribution, etc. Not at all a free market type.
I was commenting the other day on how she says that Margaret Thatcher is her greatest hero, but that she’s an advocate of economic policy more in line with Shinzo Abe’s stuff, which really isn’t in line with Thatcher.
IIRC Liz Truss had some similar statement, and the policy that she went for during her time as Prime Minister was also pretty loose.
When she says that she doesn’t mean “I agree with her”. It doesn’t mean “I take great inspiration from her”.
It merely means “I want to be seen as Thatcher’s equal”.