Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain-Fast Shipping

Description

The Fall of the Tory Party

Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to ‘Get Brexit Done’. And beyond this, it is an intellectual vacuum, propped up by half-baked doctrine and magical thinking. Falling Down offers an explanation for how the Tory party came toposition itself on the edge of the precipice and offers a series of answers to a question seldom addressed: as the party is poised to pressthe self-destruct button, what kind of roleand future can it have?

This tipping point has been a long time coming and Burton-Cartledgeoffers critical analysis to this narrative. Since the era ofThatcherism, the Tories have struggled to find a popular vision for theUnited Kingdom. At the same time, their members have becomeincreasingly old. Their values have not been adopted by the younger voters. The coalition between the countryside and the City interests is under pressure, and the latter is split by Brexit. The Tories are lockedinto a declinist spiral, and with their votersnot replacing themselves the party is more dependent on a splitopposition – putting into question their continued viability as thefavoured vehicle of British capital.