He’s pushing to make gay marriage legal in the UK, something which even Obama and John Kerry balked at (they merely wanted federal civil unions, and Obama’s faltered even on that front).
He supports the same sort of UN plans against global warming that Greenpeace do. It’s not far off Obama’s policies, either.
Until recently, he was more pro-EU than Tony Blair, and I suspect his recent switch is due to pure political pragmatism rather than a change of heart (the various EU nations falling like dominoes economically, for one).
In virtually every conceivable manner, he and most modern Western “conservatives” are on the extreme left historically, be it Merkel’s antinational, leftwing Protestant upbringing, the neocons with their “global democracy” baloney (something more than a little similar to the Trotskyite doctrine of global communist revolution from which the neocons sprang, as pro-Cold War liberals in the fifties and sixties) or the Swedish Democrats.
It doesn’t get much better even if we go by relatively recent political standards, those of the last half century or so. Cameron and the Conservatives are certainly well to the left of Thatcher, and probably even to Major. Culturally, most Western political parties are a thousand kilometres to the left of even the most ardent Reds in the fifties. Just compare Tony Blair’s New Labour to the Old Labour of Harold Wilson.
Modern liberalism and conservatism are effectively the offshoots and descendants of Progressivism and, to a lesser extent, Wilsonianism, which in turn take their roots from the classical liberals, who were often regarded as extreme leftists in their day for their populist, anti monarchical spirit and rhetoric. Effectively, both are simply different wings of the core Western ideology of social democratic internationalism; monarchists, traditionalists, Burkeans and nationalists hold negligible influence in the corridors of Western power and are routinely mocked by the Establishment media or demonized as “far right fascists”.
That’s one half of the old “throne and altar” of conservatism. As for the altar, even in comparatively religious America, the media and most senior bureaucratic (unelected) positions are hardly held by Bible-thumpers. Even the Evangelicals, themselves the children of the left-wing Pietists and Calvinists that spawned the Progressives, are moving ever leftward, towards a more Sojourner/“social justice”/“liberation theology” type of Christianity. Just compare Mike Huckabee to Jerry Falwell.
I don’t know what the general populace around here thinks, but those are certainly my views on the matter.