Could 2017 be the year for a new socially conservative political party?
by Julian Mann, Conservative Home:
The real reason why Hitler lost the Second World War was exactly the same one that caused him to unleash it in the first place: he was a Nazi’ (Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War.)
Dr Roberts’s book brilliantly demonstrates that the worldview behind a politician’s actions is crucially determinative of their practical success or failure. So what are the worldviews that underpin the major political movements dominating the UK Parliament now – namely the Cameronite Conservatives, the Blairite (or at least non-Corbynite) Labour members and the Scottish Nationalists?
Would it not be more accurate to talk of their worldview in the singular? Is it really overstating the case to assert that these three tints on the political river seem to reflect fairly uniformly a shared belief in a combination of state-regulated capitalism in economic policy and a Marxist attitude to equality of outcome in social policy?
The point is debatable. But it is surely almost certainly true that the line between the promotion of equality of opportunity and the imposition of equality of outcome has become somewhat blurred in the minds of our mainstream politicians.
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