In this blog, the political, and especially the electoral arena is seen through the lenses of an economist, as a market, where there is an ideological demand and an offer that corresponds – or not – to the what the public requires. As most people - even those uninterested in politics - will know, generally what we define as right and left wing, is delineated as follows: right wingers are fiscally liberal – nominally favour lower rates of taxation and are opposed to a large intervening “nanny-state”, whilst remaining sceptical towards what is deemed as social “progression”, in the historicist meaning of the word; on the other hand, left-wing parties are socialist and collectivist in the economic sphere, whilst being promoters of societal changes, given that traditional norms and structures are perceived as institutionally of the right and serving the “oppressor” class. Being “far-right/left”, merely implies pushing these stances to their logical conclusion and moving away from...