Title: What is conservative about the British Conservative Party? - Quora
Headings: What is conservative about the British Conservative Party?
What is conservative about the British Conservative Party?
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Content: Tony Blair brought in Civil Unions (later added to by the Tories) and if you go to Labour’s own website the words are very telling. They talk of defending and protecting more than any actual change. The LibDems until recently were actually led by a self confessed homophobe despite their honourable history on gay rights. This goes to what each party sees as its core vote. Labour is now the party of unions and government workers and of course nowadays the two overlap strongly, with unions weak or absent from many private employers. Given the size of the state sector (the NHS is 1.5 million all by itself), that is an entirely rational position. The tide under both Labour and Conservative governments for 40 years has been a decrease in state sector jobs, with no realistic prospect of much increase, the role of the Labour party is to defend government workers and get them pay rises which is just a slight drift of the status quo. The Conservatives see themselves as the party of business which for many years up until the 1980s was seen as helping big business stay big. That means ironically that Labour and Conservative industrial policy were actually almost interchangeable. However the tory member