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'First and definitive analysis of the development of the Conservative Party's ideology and policy during the tenure of David Cameron' - The Guardian Bookshop
'This collection of essays is the most comprehensive analysis of Cameron's Conservative Party to date. The editors have done a splendid job once again following their earlier collaboration on Ten Years of New Labour. ' Kevin Hickson – Parliamentary Brief
'This collection of essays is the most comprehensive analysis of Cameron's Conservative Party to date. The editors have done a splendid job once again following their earlier collaboration on Ten Years of New Labour. ' Kevin Hickson – Parliamentary Brief
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Drawing upon the expertise of a team of established researchers, The Conservatives under David Cameron provides a detailed analysis and evaluation of the ideas, policies and electoral strategy developed during the tenure of David Cameron as Conservative Party leader. For students of developments in British politics, the book provides the essential guide to key domestic and foreign policy choices, including the Conservative Party's agenda for economic policy, reform of the public services, welfare reform, law, order and immigration, the environment, constitutional reform, foreign affairs and defence, the European Union, and international development. These choices are placed in historical context by an introduction which also includes a detailed analysis of Conservative Party ideology.
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This useful book examines today's Conservative Party. It looks at its ideology, Cameron's role, its economic policy, social policy, policy towards the public services, the notion of the competition state, its environmental policy, defence and security policy, foreign and international policy and policy towards the EU.
In 1997 the Conservatives got 9.6 million votes, their lowest total since 1929, just 30.7 per cent of the vote. In 2001 they got 8.36 million votes, 31.7 per cent of the vote. In 2005, they got 8.8 million votes, 32.4 per cent of the vote. Clearly, they had to do something different to win. This May, they got 10.7 million votes, 36.1 per cent of the vote.
But did they really change? Or did they just change the image? In 2008 when Cameron dropped his pledge to keep to Labour's spending plans, Nick Clegg said, "David Cameron has learned nothing. It's exactly what the Conservatives did in the 1980s ... To simply slash public spending when we are heading into a recession - there's no case for it whatsoever." Well said Nick: the Tories hadn't changed
But what is Clegg doing now? He is Deputy Prime Minister in a Tory government that is slashing public spending when we are heading into a recession, when there's no case for it whatsoever. This is the same Nick Clegg whose party's The orange book - reclaiming liberalism sought to replace the NHS with `a system of competing insurance schemes'. No wonder they have joined the Tories! His colleague David Laws, who edited The orange book has been found to have cheated on his expenses, just before he fronted the Tories' attack on public spending.
On social policy, Cameron has widened the application of, not abandoned, the Thatcherite principles of entrepreneur-led and market-driven initiative from the economic to the social sphere. The Conservative Party supports our continued membership of the EU because, as Mark Evans notes, "The EU has also acted as a driving force for neo-liberalism and a champion of the competition state model."
It's still the same old Thatcherite Tories: anti-public services, anti-environment, anti-trade union, anti-working class, pro-EU, pro-USA, pro-Israel and pro-NATO.
In 1997 the Conservatives got 9.6 million votes, their lowest total since 1929, just 30.7 per cent of the vote. In 2001 they got 8.36 million votes, 31.7 per cent of the vote. In 2005, they got 8.8 million votes, 32.4 per cent of the vote. Clearly, they had to do something different to win. This May, they got 10.7 million votes, 36.1 per cent of the vote.
But did they really change? Or did they just change the image? In 2008 when Cameron dropped his pledge to keep to Labour's spending plans, Nick Clegg said, "David Cameron has learned nothing. It's exactly what the Conservatives did in the 1980s ... To simply slash public spending when we are heading into a recession - there's no case for it whatsoever." Well said Nick: the Tories hadn't changed
But what is Clegg doing now? He is Deputy Prime Minister in a Tory government that is slashing public spending when we are heading into a recession, when there's no case for it whatsoever. This is the same Nick Clegg whose party's The orange book - reclaiming liberalism sought to replace the NHS with `a system of competing insurance schemes'. No wonder they have joined the Tories! His colleague David Laws, who edited The orange book has been found to have cheated on his expenses, just before he fronted the Tories' attack on public spending.
On social policy, Cameron has widened the application of, not abandoned, the Thatcherite principles of entrepreneur-led and market-driven initiative from the economic to the social sphere. The Conservative Party supports our continued membership of the EU because, as Mark Evans notes, "The EU has also acted as a driving force for neo-liberalism and a champion of the competition state model."
It's still the same old Thatcherite Tories: anti-public services, anti-environment, anti-trade union, anti-working class, pro-EU, pro-USA, pro-Israel and pro-NATO.
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This useful book examines today's Conservative Party. It looks at its ideology, Cameron's role, its economic policy, social policy, policy towards the public services, the notion of the competition state, its environmental policy, defence and security policy, foreign and international policy and policy towards the EU.
In 1997 the Conservatives got 9.6 million votes, their lowest total since 1929, just 30.7 per cent of the vote. In 2001 they got 8.36 million votes, 31.7 per cent of the vote. In 2005, they got 8.8 million votes, 32.4 per cent of the vote. Clearly, they had to do something different to win. This May, they got 10.7 million votes, 36.1 per cent of the vote.
But did they really change? Or did they just change the image? In 2008 when Cameron dropped his pledge to keep to Labour's spending plans, Nick Clegg said, "David Cameron has learned nothing. It's exactly what the Conservatives did in the 1980s ... To simply slash public spending when we are heading into a recession - there's no case for it whatsoever." Well said Nick: the Tories hadn't changed
But what is Clegg doing now? He is Deputy Prime Minister in a Tory government that is slashing public spending when we are heading into a recession, when there's no case for it whatsoever. This is the same Nick Clegg whose party's The orange book - reclaiming liberalism sought to replace the NHS with `a system of competing insurance schemes'. No wonder they have joined the Tories! His colleague David Laws, who edited The orange book has been found to have cheated on his expenses, just before he fronted the Tories' attack on public spending.
On social policy, Cameron has widened the application of, not abandoned, the Thatcherite principles of entrepreneur-led and market-driven initiative from the economic to the social sphere. The Conservative Party supports our continued membership of the EU because, as Mark Evans notes, "The EU has also acted as a driving force for neo-liberalism and a champion of the competition state model."
It's still the same old Thatcherite Tories: anti-public services, anti-environment, anti-trade union, anti-working class, pro-EU, pro-USA, pro-Israel and pro-NATO.
In 1997 the Conservatives got 9.6 million votes, their lowest total since 1929, just 30.7 per cent of the vote. In 2001 they got 8.36 million votes, 31.7 per cent of the vote. In 2005, they got 8.8 million votes, 32.4 per cent of the vote. Clearly, they had to do something different to win. This May, they got 10.7 million votes, 36.1 per cent of the vote.
But did they really change? Or did they just change the image? In 2008 when Cameron dropped his pledge to keep to Labour's spending plans, Nick Clegg said, "David Cameron has learned nothing. It's exactly what the Conservatives did in the 1980s ... To simply slash public spending when we are heading into a recession - there's no case for it whatsoever." Well said Nick: the Tories hadn't changed
But what is Clegg doing now? He is Deputy Prime Minister in a Tory government that is slashing public spending when we are heading into a recession, when there's no case for it whatsoever. This is the same Nick Clegg whose party's The orange book - reclaiming liberalism sought to replace the NHS with `a system of competing insurance schemes'. No wonder they have joined the Tories! His colleague David Laws, who edited The orange book has been found to have cheated on his expenses, just before he fronted the Tories' attack on public spending.
On social policy, Cameron has widened the application of, not abandoned, the Thatcherite principles of entrepreneur-led and market-driven initiative from the economic to the social sphere. The Conservative Party supports our continued membership of the EU because, as Mark Evans notes, "The EU has also acted as a driving force for neo-liberalism and a champion of the competition state model."
It's still the same old Thatcherite Tories: anti-public services, anti-environment, anti-trade union, anti-working class, pro-EU, pro-USA, pro-Israel and pro-NATO.
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