The National Conservatism Conference shows that all is not lost in the battle against wokery

May 16, 2023 by

by Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home:

[…]  This first day of the three-day National Conservatism Conference did not produce ready-made solutions: that would have been unconservative.

But it did show a large number of people, many of them young, thinking about the problems, and wondering what part a rehabilitated, reinvigorated, Christian conservatism inspired by Burke and Disraeli might have to play.

Between the wars, under Stanley Baldwin, and after the Second World War, at Swinton College, the Conservative Party attached enormous importance to winning the battle of ideas against the socialists.

It is equally important now to win the battle of ideas against the “woke” thinkers who want to tear down every customary restraint in order to build a brave new world which turns out to be hell on earth.

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Christians behind National Conservative Conference in London from Religion Media Centre

The National Conservative Conference, held this week at Emmanuel Christian Centre in London, is organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation, whose chair is  Dr James Orr, associate professor of philosophy of religion at the faculty of divinity, University of Cambridge. He told Premier Christian Radio that the conference aims to address a crisis within political conservatism in the West, saying freedom to live according to religious belief and other rights are not being defended. The Times reports that the conference was born out of the Christian Conservative movement in the US and held its first UK event in 2019. It quotes one Tory MP saying it is about transporting extreme right-wing culture wars and American division and rhetoric into the UK.  One of the speakers was the Conservative MP for Devizes and evangelical Christian, Danny Kruger, who told the Conference  that the traditional nuclear family is the basis for society. He said: The normative family, the mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children, is the only basis for a safe and successful society.. Families need to be back at the heart of our fiscal system”.

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