If you knew the true history of the Conservative Party, you'd never even consider voting for them.
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All of the major political parties have their faults. The Labour Party have been dogged for years by their highly controversial decision to invade Iraq and their support for debt-laden Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) during Tony Blair's tumultuous tenure as PM. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have also suffered from deeply unpopular decisions, such as totally reneging on their key 2010 election pledge to scrap tuition fees and supporting swingeing cuts to public services, including the NHS, during the 2010-15 coalition government. However, whilst both Labour and the Lib Dems have a relatively short catalogue of shame, virtually all of the Conservative Party's policy decisions - from Thatcher's Poll Tax, mass privatisation, mass deregulation, attacking workers' rights, fox hunting, supporting apartheid and slashing taxes for the rich - to the modern-day Tory policies of austerity, zero hours contracts, supporting Fossil Fuel corporations, ignoring Climate Change, hiking Tuition Fees, scrapping EMA, slashing Disability Benefits, implementing the Bedroom Tax, culling badgers, supporting the Ivory Trade, and ignoring poverty, homelessness and the housing crisis whilst - surprise surprise - wasting yet more taxpayer money brazenly cutting taxes for the rich even further - have ended up being both deeply unpopular with a large proportion of the general public, and highly destructive for the rights and wellbeing of ordinary people. But, in a democratic system, how do the Tories keep getting away with such consistent and obvious failure, and how do they keep managing to persuade enough ordinary people to support them - seemingly against their own interests - in order to stay in power? To understand this inexplicable political reality, you first need to understand the full history of the party, who they previously represented, and exactly why the Conservative Party came to exist in the first place.
If you knew the true history of the Conservative Party, you'd never even consider voting for them.
If you knew the true history of the…
If you knew the true history of the Conservative Party, you'd never even consider voting for them.
All of the major political parties have their faults. The Labour Party have been dogged for years by their highly controversial decision to invade Iraq and their support for debt-laden Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) during Tony Blair's tumultuous tenure as PM. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have also suffered from deeply unpopular decisions, such as totally reneging on their key 2010 election pledge to scrap tuition fees and supporting swingeing cuts to public services, including the NHS, during the 2010-15 coalition government. However, whilst both Labour and the Lib Dems have a relatively short catalogue of shame, virtually all of the Conservative Party's policy decisions - from Thatcher's Poll Tax, mass privatisation, mass deregulation, attacking workers' rights, fox hunting, supporting apartheid and slashing taxes for the rich - to the modern-day Tory policies of austerity, zero hours contracts, supporting Fossil Fuel corporations, ignoring Climate Change, hiking Tuition Fees, scrapping EMA, slashing Disability Benefits, implementing the Bedroom Tax, culling badgers, supporting the Ivory Trade, and ignoring poverty, homelessness and the housing crisis whilst - surprise surprise - wasting yet more taxpayer money brazenly cutting taxes for the rich even further - have ended up being both deeply unpopular with a large proportion of the general public, and highly destructive for the rights and wellbeing of ordinary people. But, in a democratic system, how do the Tories keep getting away with such consistent and obvious failure, and how do they keep managing to persuade enough ordinary people to support them - seemingly against their own interests - in order to stay in power? To understand this inexplicable political reality, you first need to understand the full history of the party, who they previously represented, and exactly why the Conservative Party came to exist in the first place.