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T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 07:40 AM Apr 2015

UK Parties: The Conservative Party

This is the first in a series of threads I will be doing over the next few days about the main parties at the General election to be held on May 7th. this thread is about the Conservative party. Currently the political party with the most seats in the house of commons, making up the majority of the current British government.

Here is their website, although I couldn't find any kind of mission statement or anything about the general philosophy of the Tory party. The below link is the nearest I can find to anything like that.

https://www.conservatives.com/Plan.aspx

https://www.conservatives.com/

Threads for Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, Plaid, Cymru, UKIP etc to follow

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UK Parties: The Conservative Party (Original Post) T_i_B Apr 2015 OP
All about kicking people when they're down... LeftishBrit Apr 2015 #1
SOME of them, maybe ... non sociopath skin Apr 2015 #2
And in another annoying development... T_i_B Apr 2015 #3
Judging from the comments from American DUers, their parties have done this for years muriel_volestrangler Apr 2015 #4
Given the way that British politics is fragmenting at present... T_i_B Apr 2015 #5
agreed. Ironing Man Apr 2015 #6
First 2017 General Election kick T_i_B Apr 2017 #7
2019 general election kick T_i_B Nov 2019 #8
Telegraph issues correction over Boris Johnson's false UK economy claim muriel_volestrangler Nov 2019 #9

LeftishBrit

(41,175 posts)
1. All about kicking people when they're down...
Wed Apr 1, 2015, 08:35 AM
Apr 2015

and appealing to the rich, and to the rather larger number of people who hope to be rich one day.

The only good thing about the Tories is that at least they're better than UKIP.

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
3. And in another annoying development...
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 07:05 AM
Apr 2015

...the Tories have followed Labour's lead and put an extremely similar leading question on the front page of their website.

Am I alone in thinking that a political party website should be about informing people about that political party rather then grabbing as much personal information as possible from visitors to the site?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,083 posts)
4. Judging from the comments from American DUers, their parties have done this for years
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:30 PM
Apr 2015

The spam they got sent begging for donations sounded more like stalking than the actions of a responsible party. And that was the Democrats.

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
5. Given the way that British politics is fragmenting at present...
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 03:06 AM
Apr 2015

...I'm increasingly of the view that American politics is becoming much less relevant as an example of how to do things.

American politics is still very much a 2 party affair, British politics is moving further away from that. And I'm not convinced that the leadership of the main parties have much idea of how to win people back to their causes.

Ironing Man

(164 posts)
6. agreed.
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 05:07 AM
Apr 2015

the paucity of political ambition from either Labour or Tories is utterly dispriting - most of what they're talking about barely even qualifies as tinkering around at the edges. what they haven't grasped in seeking to appeal to as many voters as possible is that they've blanded themselves to the point of irrelevence.

where's the 'build HS2 to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Swansea and Truro'? where's the 'build 500,000 affordable/social family homes by 2022'?, where's 'double the size of the RN's escort force to the number Labour said were required in their well-regarded SDR of 1998 - 35 if anyone is interested?', where's 'halve housing benefit/LHA to get the buy-to-let reptiles out of the market?'

i know its nostalgia and rose-tinted glasses to look on every generation of politicians as inferior to the previous ones, but the current lot are just woeful.

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
7. First 2017 General Election kick
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 03:18 PM
Apr 2017

For the party who have decided that a cynical and unnecessary general election before the shit hits the fan is exactly what this country needs.....

T_i_B

(14,734 posts)
8. 2019 general election kick
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 05:52 AM
Nov 2019

As bad as the Tories were in 2015, they have managed to regress considerably since then.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,083 posts)
9. Telegraph issues correction over Boris Johnson's false UK economy claim
Sun Nov 3, 2019, 12:33 PM
Nov 2019
The Daily Telegraph has been forced to correct a column written by Boris Johnson, after he falsely claimed the UK is set to “become the largest and most prosperous economy in this hemisphere”.
...
Johnson’s suggestion that the UK economy would overtake Germany “in our lifetimes” may also be up for debate, given that the legitimate OECD forecast only looked ahead to 2060. As a result, on the current predictions, even when Johnson is 94 years old the British economy would still be lagging some way behind its continental counterpart.

The false claim was made in a column Johnson wrote in June shortly before he became prime minister about the failings of the British education system.

This is the third time this year that the Daily Telegraph has been forced to issue a correction to material by Johnson, its star £275,000-a-year columnist, who is currently on leave from the news outlet while he serves as prime minister.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/03/telegraph-forced-to-issue-correction-to-boris-johnson-column

I'm not sure where the Eton education went more wrong - Johnson's uselessness at figures, or his lack of concern about lying. Will teh Torygraph want him back, once he's failed as PM too?
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