Largely isolated, even hardline eurosceptics like Margaret Thatcher conceded that the British Conservatives could not be effectively heard from such a peripheral group.

Conservatives, he says, are not averse to change – but like Hayek, they are highly averse to change being imposed on the social order by people in authority who think they know how to run things better.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

On 5 May 2010, the newspaper stated in an editorial that having supported Labour under Tony Blair, the newspaper would be supporting David Cameron and the Conservatives in the General Election, saying that " the Conservatives are ready for power: they look like a government in waiting.

Gladstone preferred to call them ' dissentient Liberals ' as if he believed they would eventually come back like the ' Adullamites ', Liberals who had opposed the extension of the franchise in 1866 but had mostly come back to the main party after the Conservatives had passed their own electoral reform bill in 1867.

Though a few Liberal Unionists like Goschen formally joined the Conservatives ( by becoming member of the exclusive Tory Carlton Club ), the party still continued to maintain a separate identity and to raise their own funds.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

While King was inclined to view UFA politicians, like Progressives elsewhere, as " Liberals in a hurry " who were fundamentally comfortable with his government and preferred it to the Conservatives, Stewart understood that the UFA was a distinct group whose members were in many respect more conservative than liberal.

Coogan supports the Labour Party .. Coogan believes that Conservatives think " people are plebs " and that " they like to pat people on the head ".

He doesn't particularly like her, but her father, Roland Gidleigh-Park, is chairman of the local Conservatives, and can have him deselected as the party's candidate on a whim.

A posting from a person claiming to be David Higginbottom, Prentice's campaign manager in the last election, said, " It is unfortunate that at a time when Conservatives need to be working together to prevent what is a desperate power play by the opposition to seize control of our democratically elected government, that a site like this would be created.

Conservatives like Prince Duan, who were xenophobic and disliked foreigners, still adopted western weaponry and used it to equip their armies.

The previous two-years of anti-socialist attacks by the Conservatives and their supporters, like Gladstone Murray and Montague A. Sanderson, were devastatingly effective against the previously popular CCF.

In late 2009, McGee joined The Sun's campaign against Labour and in favour of the Conservatives, contributing an article to 1 October 2009 edition of the paper in which, in a significant new development from his previous attacks on New Labour, he praised Conservative leader David Cameron, saying of him " At least David Cameron looks like a leader.

It has been claimed that the exodus to Channel 4 in the early 1990s of dramatists like Dennis Potter and Alan Bleasdale, who had both been responsible for series which caused outrage among Conservatives during the Milne era, had much to do with the relative lack of risk-taking at the BBC under Checkland and his successor John Birt, who was deputy director-general throughout Checkland's reign.

In 1971, pro-Market figures like Roy Jenkins, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said a Labour government would have agreed to the terms of accession secured by the Conservatives.

Volpe argued that the poster was offensive to Canadians of Italian heritage, and commented " These are the same Conservatives who think that every immigrant is a potential terrorist and criminal and everything else ", and " Notwithstanding that they don't have their cowl and their cape, the Klan looks like they're still very much alive.

Those non-socialists in Finland who were not ardent fennomans seemed to the Swedish Liberals more like the Conservatives they were used to viewing as their political enemies.

The policies of " Old Conservatives " like Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke or Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau generally embraced support for the powers of the monarchy and opposition to economic liberalism and democratization, the introduction of electoral reform in Prussia, or true parliamentary government in Germany as a whole.

The previous two years of anti-socialist attacks by the Conservatives and their supporters, like Gladstone Murray and Montague A. Sanderson, were devastatingly effective against the previously popular CCF.

The Conservatives produced some notable leaders, like Mexico's Agustín de Iturbide and Guatemala's Rafael Carrera.

Higher Broughton has a considerable Jewish population and has some very decent residential housing, but even here Labour are usually in the lead at local level ; the Conservatives, like all the other neighbouring Manchester seats, are now in third place in General Elections.

Conservatives like Beck saw the need to regulate bad behavior in the corporate world with the intention of protecting corporate capitalism from radical forces, but they were alarmed by the anti-business and pro-union proposals of Roosevelt after 1905.

The lack of progress had convinced some senior Conservatives that it would be a good idea to scrap tariff reform altogether, which Law disagreed with, successfully arguing that tariff reform " was the first constructive work of the Party " and that to scrap it would " split the Party from top to bottom ".

" Understandably, this fancy idea of Hyndman's pleased the British bourgeoisie ( the Conservatives and the Liberals ).

In contrast, the Liberal Democrat manifesto opposed the idea because ID cards " don ’ t work ", while the Conservatives made no mention of the issue.

This was the idea of the Deputy Prime Minister, who is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats Party, who said that this would stop the Prime Minister, who is the Conservative Leader David Cameron, from calling a snap election as many Conservatives have requested.

He angered many people and embarrassed both the federal and Ontario Progressive Conservatives when a profile in the Globe and Mail quoted him as saying that breeding a " supreme race " for intelligence was a good idea, and as calling for Vietnamese refugees to be sent to " desert islands " off the Philippines and Indonesia rather than be accepted into Canada where they would " upset the racial balance ".

A week after the vote, on June 7 the Conservatives conceded power rather than ally with the Liberals.

The NDP's strategy had changed in that they were focusing their attacks on the Liberals rather than in 2004 where they criticized both the Liberals and Conservatives in equal measure prompting some criticism from Paul Martin.

The Conservatives soon began to get annoyed that they were unable to criticise the Government, and took this into Parliament ; rather than criticising policy, they would attack individual ministers, including the Lord Chancellor ( who they considered " far too enamoured of German culture ") and the Home Secretary, who was " too tender to aliens ".

Nova Scotia's political system was transformed by the debate on Confederation, and its concurrent provincial and federal elections in September 1867 were fought by Confederation and anti-Confederation parties, rather than by Liberals and Conservatives.

From the outset of his career he was known to be more politically sympathetic to the Liberals rather than the Conservatives, and in 1855 Lord Palmerston offered him the post of Secretary of State for the Colonies.

During the late 1920s and especially during the 1929-31 Parliament, in which Labour had no majority but were allowed to continue in office by the Liberals, Simon was seen as the leader of the minority of Liberal MPs who disliked Lloyd George's inclination to support Labour rather than the Conservatives.

He declared that the Conservatives ought to adopt, rather than oppose, popular reforms, and to challenge the claims of the Liberals to pose as champions of the masses.

Conservatives criticise Kreisky's policy of deficit spending, expressed in his famous comment during the 1979 election campaign that he preferred that the state run up high debts rather than see people become unemployed, and hold Kreisky responsible for Austria's subsequent economic difficulties.

Conservatives celebrate the recent Court decisions and Bush ’ s NCLB and the focus now needs to be on teaching the kids, rather than chasing “ demographic rainbows .”

Rifkind was one of the few MPs to try again in his old seat, rather than seeking a safer one, standing again for Edinburgh Pentlands against Clark in the 2001 general election ; although he improved his showing somewhat, he was unable to overturn the sizeable 10. 6 % majority in an election where the Conservatives made little progress.

Two weeks later, on September 24, the DRC members entered into a coalition with the Progressive Conservatives, which was intended to be PC leader Joe Clark's framework for proving that the two parties could be united on his terms rather than Day's.

The Progressive Conservatives did well in the Atlantic provinces, and in the West, but Liberal support in Ontario and Quebec ensured a majority Liberal government, mostly at the expense of Lewis's NDP rather than Stanfield's Tories.

The Conservatives ' unexpected success in the 1992 election led Cameron to hit back at older party members who had criticised him and his colleagues, saying " whatever people say about us, we got the campaign right ," and that they had listened to their campaign workers on the ground rather than the newspapers.

Although sometimes labeled fascist according to historian Roger Eatwell: " Most of its 2000-3000 active members were Colonel Blimpish rather than fascist: in fact many of its members saw it as a Conservative ginger group ... an attempt to keep the Conservatives true to the Imperial way.

The traditional colour of the Penrith and the Border Conservatives was yellow, rather than dark blue.

On 22 June 2009, it was announced that ODS would join the newly-formed European Conservatives and Reformists, an anti-federalist bloc working for reform rather than abolition of the European Parliament and currently its fourth largest bloc.

But in Uxbridge Shersby managed to hang on to a seat taken back from Labour for the Conservatives by Charles Curran in 1970, even though the majority fell from 1970's 3646 votes to a rather less comfortable 1, 178 votes that night.

In 1926, Stevens led an investigation into the King government's handling of customs which uncovered evidence of corruption that forced the resignation of King's minority government and Governor General Byng's controversial decision to ask the Conservatives under Meighen to form a government rather than call an election.

It was a " politically rational " rather than a " technically efficient " solution that depended on the watershed election of 1905 that saw the Conservatives replace the Liberals.

In the 2007 campaign, he wrote a blog post suggesting that Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod would rather bake cookies than be seen on a stage with farm activist Randy Hillier, who later ran successfully for the Conservatives.

Both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats stated generally in 2005 that they no longer feel bound to abide by the convention, while in this specific case several Lords have stated that it would not apply as the manifesto commitment was for implementation on a " voluntary basis " as passports are renewed, rather than being compulsory as passports are renewed.

Indeed, had UKIP backed the Conservatives at the 2010 General Election, David Cameron would have been Prime Minister of a majority Conservative Government, rather than in a coalition with Europhile Liberal Democrats.

Conservatives argue that people should have a presumption in favour of such institutions, rather than changes to them.