"Which is why calling markets 'right wing' is both blinkered and stupid--markets are a tool, a means to an end, and are neutral on left/right alignment."

The problem is that the right wing has pretty succesfully hijacked the idea of a free market. I wouldn't mind governments saying they're for the free market if they weren't so sodding hypocritical about the whole thing.

(I'm pro-subsidisation, I don't find the idea that the government should help folks out if there's a social need, I just get a bit fed up of hearing about a half-assed, half-hearted approach to the free market from people who should know better...)