I believe that the Conservative party under Cameron haven't adopted many One Nation policies for these reasons; On terms of economic and the deficit the Conservative party seem more right hinting at the thatcher heyday. David Cameron is clearly in favour of rolling back the state, which is also a major point of Thatcherism. A key point is how Cameron feels about education, he favours privatisation of education and has introduced Free Schools and Finally how the Tory's have in reforming the taxation system have rejected some one nation policies. However it could be argued that the Tory party not cutting the NHS fund and International aid funds is adopting one nation policies. In terms of
Old Labour was more left wing, and supported the idea of increasing taxes to pay for public services such as education and health. Whereas new labour was a term used by Tony Blair to show that the Labour Party has changed some of its ideas and become more modern. One of the key New Labour ideas is that the government should not use high taxes to pay for public services. They differ on the grounds that old labour was for nationalisation but new labour is opposed to state intervention. When Blair became prime minister in 1997 he brought a new set of ideas and policies that would change the face of the labour party.
The first main difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives in the mid-1860s is their beliefs. The Liberals led by William Gladstone, were general believers of Gladstonian Liberalism. This was essentially “peace reform and retrenchment”. Gladstone’s own financial policies that were based on balanced budgets, low taxes, and laissez-faire (self-help) were better suited to the developing capitalist society of Britain in the mid-1860s. The Liberals were not very big supporters of the Monarch and wanted the Monarchy out of the political area and it just to be solely the government.
Margaret Thatcher’s version of liberal conservatism, known as the ‘new right’, swept away the power and influence of the one nation conservatives in the party. She believed that people were naturally competitive, that private enterprise should be encouraged because it rewarded effort. There was a belief that high taxation meant that those who created wealth were penalised so that the less gifted could be subsidised. Her supporters were strong believers in the individual, yet just as the liberals of the Victorian era they believed in a strong state. The new right was radical departure from traditional conservatism because the policies on society are completely different.
This general shift to the centre ground gained voters back, who had previously been Labour, but had voted Conservative recently. These reformers were not against socialism however and previously, many were socialists, yet they saw the need for voters, rather than ideology. Further, New Labour was a lot less socialistic when it came to economic policy. In fact, New Labour adopted a Keynesian approach to the economy, much like the New Right. The Third Way has been enthusiastic when it comes to capitalism.
After the First World War there was an attempt to try to return to this form of economy but it failed leaving Britain’s economy exposed to huge levels of deflation with no effective plan to counteract in place. This led to the suspension of the gold standard along with capital controls and a policy of permanently low domestic interest rates being introduced. In 1929 a new government came into power, although they were not expected to come to an agreement to make cuts to the dole system they did stick strictly to the ‘orthodox treasury view’ in its fiscal and monetary policies. This was all done for a good reason as the labour government were worried that an inflationary policy would reduce the real wage of labour. The unemployed population may have been able
The Neoliberal Debate Development Studies First Term Essay The Pro-Market Approach to Development Given the importance of the economic growth in the present day, a country’s ideological concepts must keep the focus on a market driven approach to economic and social policies. The approach that has seen mainstream popularity in the Global North over the past few decades has been Neoliberalism. According to this ideology the market is the self-regulating system that will determine the economic and social factors of a nation. It is self-regulating in that the market can determine the free price system. The reason why this role is taken away from governments is that they are obstacles to a nation’s development because they are inefficient and corrupt systems.
Do you agree with the view that Thatcherism was a radical break with the past which ended post-war consensus in Britain? Post war consensus was policies laid down by Attlee's government(1945-51) that were followed by successive successive Labour and Conservative governments for the next 35 years, until Thatcher began to challenge it. The Conservative and Labour government's policies were based on Keynesianism, the Beveridge Report, the principle of independence of former British colonies and the notion of creating equal opportunity for all. However Thatcher, a conviction politician, began to challenge this consensus after the Conservative election win in 1979 and her time in office became known as the 'Thatcher revolution', the second revolution since Attlee's government. Thatcherism did not end the 35 year long post war consensus in Britain, especially in foreign affairs.
Study sources 4,5 and 6. How far do you agree that Margaret Thatcher was a 'conviction' politician who was opposed to 'consensus' politics? Following the election of 1979, it seemed that merely winning the election was not enough for Margaret Thatcher, she seemed to be determined to stamp her stamp of authority on the British nation and for the first time after the second world war here it seemed there was a leader willing to smash the consensus politics that Britain was accustomed to see and that here was a leader to try and make Britain great again and do that she did, Thatcher was definitely a 'conviction' politician who was opposed to 'consensus' politics. It was a shock to many in the public and especially to Heath when Thatcher beat him in the Tory leadership election. Heath even told Thatcher that she would 'lose'.
Since David Cameron took over the leadership of the Conservative Party in 2005, he carried out a number of reform policies to “modernise” the Conservative Party. Most of his social policies are generally described as an idea of “big society”. Cameron proposed that the Government should allow communities to take more control of services within their own areas, which in other words, more power should be dispersed to local government, authorities and the people. In the meantime, the Liberal Democrats under the leadership of Nick Clegg tends to adopt policies of Liberal and Socialist values. However, what we can see in the coalition agreement made in 2010 is that they agreed to promote a fair and responsible government which closely related to David Cameron’s “Big Society” ideology.