Alguém que conheça, pode explicar o que é o partido conservador britânico?
Vencedor da maioria das cadeiras do parlamento, provavelmente farão o novo governo.
Será que eles são menos moles do que o atual governo do partido trabalhista? Será que lutarão contra o casamento gay, adoção por homossexuais, avanço do islã etc?
"My aim is to promote social justice, making sure that everyone has access to good schools, good healthcare and decent housing, take a lead in ending global poverty and do all we can to meet the great environmental threats of our age."
David Cameron
São o maior partido no parlamento, ou seja, tem maioria em relação aos outros partidos, mas não tem uma maioria absoluta de cadeiras no parlamento. Se o partido liberal-democrata e os trabalhistas votarem juntos eles vencem as votações, se votarem separados aí os conservadores ganham. Por outro lado os conservadores podem votar com o apoio dos partidos nanicos, isto daria a eles a maioria.
Mesmo assim, os conservadores britanicos são tão conservadores quanto os brasileiros são católicos... você pode situar os conservadores de lá como se fossem centro nos EUA, algo não tão extremo como os democratas, mas muito mais socialista que os republicanos.
COmo o Olavo fala, quando os trabalhistas estao no governo, tratam de levar a Inglaterra o máximo à esquerda possivel, quando os conservadores chegam lá, tratam de conservar tudo exatamente como os trabalhistas (PT inglês) deixaram kkkkk
existe portanto desde 1832, e é sucessor dos tories, atual apelido deles.
Tory
The term Tory (from Irish Gaelic tóraighe, an Irish outlaw or guerrilla fighter, during the British civil wars of the 17th century — literally meaning "pursued man") applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. To this day it is often used as a shortened form for Conservatives. Its usage also applied to the pre-1965 Scottish Unionist Party which operated independently of, although in association with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales.
This term is used as a shorthand for Conservative Party. Others still do not regard the terms as synonymous and some, such as the late Enoch Powell, proudly regarded themselves as "Tories", precisely because of its supposed reactionary or die hard connotations. This is particularly true of Monarchists, who refer to its use as one in favour of personal execution of royal powers.
Despite its archaic origins "Tory" is unlikely to fall from common usage, since newspapers find it too useful as an alternative for "Conservative" when space is limited. In Canada, the term is neutral and is a common shortening for the party name by supporters and opposition alike.
Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry and the Church of England (or in Scotland the episcopalian church), while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders (or "land magnates") and the Nonconformist Protestant churches. Both were still committed to the political system in place at that time. Neither group could be considered a true political party in the modern sense.
After becoming associated with repression of popular discontent in the years after 1815, the Tories underwent a fundamental transformation under the influence of Robert Peel, himself an industrialist rather than a landowner, who in his 1834 "Tamworth Manifesto" outlined a new "Conservative" philosophy of reforming ills while conserving the good. From then on the subsequent Peel administrations have been labelled "Conservative" rather than "Tory", but the older term remains in use even today.
When the Conservative Party split in 1846 on the issue of Free Trade, the protectionist wing of the party rejected the term Conservative and preferred for to be known as Protectionists or even revive the older term of "Tory" as an official name. However by the time the Peelites (as Peel's Conservative supporters became so described) eventually joined the Whigs and Radicals to form the Liberal Party in 1859, the remaining Tories had under the leadership of the former Whig Earl of Derby and a former Radical parliamentary candidate Benjamin Disraeli, adopted the "Conservative" label as the official name of their party.