With the Foreign Secretary’s announcement of joint embassies with Canada and the possible inclusion of both Australia and New Zealand I would like to look upon the idea of Commonwealth Union. By Commonwealth Union I don’t propose that all fifty-four members of the Commonwealth of Nations unite as a single state due to the impracticalities [...]
Classical Liberalism has been a major aspect in Conservative Party politics for over thirty years now, reaching its zenith during Lady Thatcher’s leadership, styling it in her own unique way and being labelled ever since as Thatcherism. Those who disagree as to whether Mrs Thatcher was a follower of Classical Liberalism we can look at [...]
The matter of House of Lords reform may appear to be one that has now passed. News that the Prime Minister is planning to drop Mr Clegg’s sacrosanct House of Lords Reform Bill will give traditionalists and even some reformists the chance to breathe a sigh of relief that the matter is out of the way [...]
Now in its third year the coalition government continues to brush aside all questions of disunity or a growing gap between the two parties of government. This great sense of unity is reflected in the Prime Minister’s own opinions, such as his, ‘strong backing’ of the House of Lords Reform Bill. The government itself appears, [...]
Beginning in the economic revolution of the early 1980’s many of Britain’s cities became increasingly anti-Conservative. Opposition, and in some cases hatred, towards the Conservative Party only appeared to increase and, as the ballot box shows, much of this has failed to fade away. The opposition to what we were doing during the 1980’s became [...]
