Conservatism Flashcards
Jesse Norman - Total Politics
Big Society
Hobbesian Tories are too pessimistic, belief in One Nationism
Burke invented the Big Society apparently
David Marquand - Prospect
Big Society is the product of Burkean thought
Behr - New Statesman
Lack of Direction - Tories economic policy is non-ideological
Attempting to win UKIP votes
Kirkup - Telegraph (aide to Miliband)
Big Society illogical based on laissez faire economics - Cameron is trying to mix One Nationism with Thatcherism to create the Big Societ
Shipman - Daily Mail
Conservatives out of touch in terms of cutting benefits for young
George Eaton
Compassionate conservatism is dead - welfare is a fiscal issue for tories
Rawnsley
Conservatives are essentially Thatcherite - Royal Mail Privatisation - Help to Buy like Right to Buy
May
Conservatism is not united - backbench factions like Ultra-modernising 2020, 301 group (BIGGEST)
Rooksby
Conservatism is about privilege and inequality