David Cameron: The Conservatives have become the party of equality | Comment is free | The Guardian
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It's incredibly well-written, a very good PR piece likely specific to Guardian readers and the like. The party is smart enough to know it wouldn't play with their traditional electorate. But the reason it's well-written is because it subtly sets the narrative with 'questions' the party came up with and then answers! Unfortunately for a lot of people that will be good enough.

You've no right to talk about equality when you're treating the disabled, mentally ill and frail like sh1te, and I really hate to bring it up, but especially when you had a disabled child of your own. So what's the difference in that particular scenario? Frankly, money, and how much of it you have. Why does he even feel the need to say the Tories have become the party of equality? Because it's got all the compassion of a hungry shark?

What, they're branching out into comedy now?

It's a very straight forward punt that you shouldn't find overly confusing. There's room for decent people to disagree over what counts as equality because there is more than one type of any such thing.

The conservative model of equality highlights one type of equality - namely of opportunity. So he highlighted a handful of minor improvements he has been able to offer in that field, and claimed some historical successes (conveniently forgetting less honourable highlights such as Section 28).

The opposed model highlights equality of outcome.

The whole argument is staged between tribes of dribbling halfwits, each accusing the other of having a less fair standard of equality than themselves. All while failing to realise that such debates are mutually unwinnable because there is more than one type of fairness too.

I would argue that the only reasonable solution is somewhere in the middle. If there weren't so many competing definitions of reason.