The Conservatives have formed a co-operative movement. The rival Co-operative party chief has said “It’s a backhanded compliment that the work that we have been doing is sufficiently interesting for them to want to nick it” 

I don’t think co-operative ideas are either left or right wing, they are deeply rooted in the working-class struggle for survival and a solution (I believe the best) to poverty and exploitation in a capitalist system, I have never understood how the co-operative party could have remained allied to Labour, with their strict control and state socialism of 1945-79 or even more breathtaking………New Labour!! 

The Conservatives are on a mission to win the next election, and like Bliar 1994-7 will do and say anything to get there.