Introducing the Social Conservative Alliance
by Charles Evans, Conservative Home:
The United Kingdom stands at a crossroads. In light of the Brexit vote, we live in a state of purgatory: despite it highlighting deep divisions in society, we now have an exciting opportunity to radically change the way we do things.
At conference Theresa May did outline something different to the Cameron-Blair status quo of recent history. She put forward a patriotic British pitch to leave the European Union, outlined how she was unafraid to use the power of the state to push through Conservative policy.
Pre-Thatcherite conservatives were never anti-state. But they were conservatives, and held to traditional views on family, society and community. Edmund Burke, one of the great conservative thinkers, outlined this and May was shrewd to cite him.
Roger Scruton, the best-known living conservative philosopher advocates similar ideas and conservative commentators Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne also highlight the loss of social conservatism in the Conservative Party.
So whilst Theresa May put forward some interesting ideas, we need bold conservatives to now say that Blairite social liberalism is failing, and state liberalism would be folly.
Families disintegrate; the mental health crisis worsens; the drums of Scottish, Northern Irish, and Welsh independence get banged; republicanism grows; religious faith is demonised; communities radically change as a direct result of an immigration system we have no control over; the case for the unborn is laughed at; the middle class and working class see a squeeze on their wages; and the church, the pub, and the sports club as valuable institutions are on the wane.
The status quo, which clearly hasn’t been working, has adhered to social liberalism, carried out by successive Labour and Conservative governments.
ED: In line with our editorial policy, this article is posted because it contains interesting views with which it would be good for Christians to engage, not because we endorse any political party.
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