Conservatives

Neal Ascherson

  • The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton
    Macmillan, 205 pp, £12.00, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
  • Counting our Blessings by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    Secker, 348 pp, £7.95, September 1980, ISBN 0 436 29401 X
  • Peregrinations by Peregrine Worsthorne
    Weidenfeld, 277 pp, £9.95, October 1980, ISBN 0 297 77807 2

It’s only a few years ago since Mr Callaghan started presenting Labour as the British National Party. Labour, we were given to understand, was the party of patriotic unity, of social cohesion, of organic harmony between interests and classes. The Tories, on the other hand, were supposed to be ‘divisive’. It was they who were setting bewildered sections of the loyal yeomanry against each other, inciting the banker against the worker tearing apart the seamless, woad-dyed robe of Ancient British tribal solidarity.

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