Conservatism Flashcards

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Jesse Norman - Total Politics

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Big Society
Hobbesian Tories are too pessimistic, belief in One Nationism
Burke invented the Big Society apparently

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David Marquand - Prospect

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Big Society is the product of Burkean thought

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Behr - New Statesman

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Lack of Direction - Tories economic policy is non-ideological
Attempting to win UKIP votes

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Kirkup - Telegraph (aide to Miliband)

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Big Society illogical based on laissez faire economics - Cameron is trying to mix One Nationism with Thatcherism to create the Big Societ

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Shipman - Daily Mail

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Conservatives out of touch in terms of cutting benefits for young

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George Eaton

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Compassionate conservatism is dead - welfare is a fiscal issue for tories

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Rawnsley

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Conservatives are essentially Thatcherite - Royal Mail Privatisation - Help to Buy like Right to Buy

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May

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Conservatism is not united - backbench factions like Ultra-modernising 2020, 301 group (BIGGEST)

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Rooksby

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Conservatism is about privilege and inequality

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