Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Simon Gosney
Iain Duncan Smith gave an impassioned address to a packed Bennett Room to conclude Clare Politics programme of talks for the year. Speaking on the subject ‘Social Justice and the Future of the Conservative Party’. Below is an extract from his frank and uncompromising address.
Filed under: conservatism, ids, socialjustice, speaker discussion, video on August 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph courtesy of The Centre for Social Justice
Clare Politics is pleased to announce that the fourth speaker of Lent Term 2008 will be former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith MP.
Iain Duncan Smith is Member of Parliament for the constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green. He was leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, clarepoliticsnews, conservatism, ids, poverty, socialjustice, society on January 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Sadly we have no video of James Bartholomew’s talk from Tuesday, but nonetheless, I feel that a response to his talk- possibly the most controversial talk that Clare Politics has run so far- is in order.
To summarise Bartholomew, as I understood it:
- the welfare state has failed, and failed the poor more than anybody else
- [...]
Filed under: conservatism, history, poverty, society, ukpolitics on March 16th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
The notion that Conservative political values are espoused in a sickly nostalgia for a long lost “golden age,” which probably never existed is, is about as accurate as saying Labour stands for Arthur Scargill and the formation of a soviet proleteriat in which all mankind is equal. Not only is this depiction of our political [...]
Filed under: conservatism on February 18th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
There was perhaps a time in the mid-1990s when few people in Britain would admit to being a Conservative with a big ‘C’, but that’s not what I’m getting at. Is there any mainstream politician in the UK today who embraces little ‘c’ conservativism?
I don’t mean what is properly called economic liberalism - support [...]
Filed under: conservatism, conservatives, ukpolitics on February 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
