By Bradley W. Hart
This ebook presents quite a number essays on features of the British Conservative occasion from the overdue nineteenth century to the current day. It deals clean views on Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Britain and Europe; united kingdom coverage in the direction of eire; Conservatism and reform, and the conservative ideology, to call just a couple of of the most important matters explored. An available and concise assessment, this ebook is a crucial primer for someone learning British politics, background, or social and political theory.
integrated are contributions via prime students in British political background, imagine tank commentators, and a former leading Minister. It deals insights into the Conservative Party's endurance inspite of nice social and political adjustments within the united kingdom and the area. It seems to be at how the occasion has functioned traditionally and what its destiny may be, discussing its ideology and id almost about either Labour and Liberal competitors. essentially it considers the conservative attract the voters, conservative coverage in either idea and perform, and debates that experience taken position inside and out of doors the occasion itself. no matter if attracted to Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George, or David Cameron and Nick Clegg, this paintings is meant to notify and problem students and political practitioners alike.
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Lloyd and E. Wood, The Great Opportunity (1918), 10. Goldman, Some Principles of Conservatism, 13. Hogg, Case for Conservatism, 63; Patterson, Character of Conservatism, 22. Loftus, Conservative Party and the Future, 24. 87 This led to the Conservative preference for decentralization and the devolution of power, with a vigourous, responsible and reactive role for local government. There were certainly limits to the forms or expressions of liberty that were consistent with a healthy and stable society, and Conservatives were not disposed to social or moral libertarianism.
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78 However, the crucial consequence of this religious influence was the corollary that each individual was responsible for his or her actions and that personal circumstances did not excuse failure in this respect. 79 Freedom was, therefore, linked inextricably to two other equally important Conservative priorities: order and duty. 80 For Conservatives, duty came first, for without it society would dissolve into anarchy. Conservatives were, therefore, uncomfortable with pure laissez-faire, unbridled capitalism and unregulated free markets, all of which they regarded as forms of Liberal ideology taken to excess – as, indeed, many Conservative critics of aspects of Thatcherism argued in the 1980s.
