Why no 'common good' hinders Keynesian measures in UK and US

 

A problem with introducing Keynesian or socialist measures in the UK is there's little to no experience of the 'common good'.

Any notion of 'common good' in the UK is the sum of private gain, commercial interest and individual actions.

The underlying 18th/19th century based ideology of the British is individualism, individual action and individual responsibility. This was exported with even more veracity to North America.

The writers whose work explored the concept of individual action and rational individual decision making have become the cultural norm. This is the case even though their ideas are generally relegated to their historical time and context.

There's a group of alt-right think tanks in the UK and the US who firmly believe in this defunct ideology and the notion of free markets that go with it. Most of the current government ministers are products of and have been spawned into leadership positions from these alt-right groups. The 

The UK is in a dangerous situation because we need to pull together but the government is encouraging us to pull apart.