The National Liberal Party was chaired by John
Poulson.
But anyway, the Conservative Party has
been defined by the takeover of the fairly bovine Tory machine by successive
waves of Liberals: Liberal Unionists, Liberal Imperialists, National Liberals,
the Institute of Economic Affairs, Alderman Alfred Roberts's daughter, and now
the Lib Dems.
That is what the Conservative Party is. It is a
device for making Tories vote for Liberals, and a device for making Tories
believe that Liberalism is Toryism: "free" market economics,
interventionist foreign policy, and all that.
But the Tories never set up the Liberal
Unionists, the Liberal Imperialists, the National Liberals, the Institute of
Economic Affairs, the Liberal Party of Alderman Alfred Roberts, or the Lib
Dems. How ridiculous that Nick Boles, a total Liberal, imagines that anyone might
fall for such a ruse.
What is presently the Conservative Party would be better advised to
reconstitute separate parties in Scotland and Northern Ireland, possibly joined
by one in Wales, and certainly joined by one in the North of England.
The deal would be that in the event of all of
those parties' collectively having an overall majority, then they would form a
coalition, with the Leader of the largest party as Prime Minister. Otherwise,
though, those parties would be entirely separate from each other.
There is no hope for the Tory and Liberal-Conservative interests outside the South
of England otherwise. And that is why they will not do it.
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