TY - BOOK ID - 78147310 TI - The British Conservative Party and one nation politics PY - 2010 SN - 0826489745 1501300733 1441147616 9781441147615 9781441123695 9780826489746 9781501300738 1441161112 9781441161116 PB - New York, New York London [England] DB - UniCat KW - Conservatism KW - Conservative Party (Great Britain) KW - Tory Party (Great Britain) KW - Scottish Unionist Party KW - Liberal Unionist Party (Great Britain) KW - Conservative and Unionist Party (Great Britain) KW - Conservative Party (Gt. Brit.) KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78147310 AB - "This book reveals the true nature of Conservative Party politics by examining the centrality of the myth of One Nation. The use of the term One Nation clearly matters for Conservative Party politics not just in its 'ancestral' use emanating from Disraeli's 1840s novels and his late nineteenth century rhetoric but also through Baldwin's speeches and to the failure of John Major to replicate such a serene and contented image of the Nation in the 1990s. But, as a concept for the Conservatives, it means so much more than mere imagery. It has been successfully utilized in their 'palaeontological' approach to their history in order to give the impression that only the Party puts 'Nation' before any sectional interest, that only the Conservative Party, as the national Party, has the ability to assuage and balance the plurality of competing interests on behalf of the Nation. It is because of this long and successful utilization of the term 'One Nation' that so many within the Party are so keen to lay claim to it."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -