Neoconservatism in the UK
Channel: British Conservative
Date: 2021-08-01

Neoconservatism is the second wing of the New Right Conservatism that took hold in the 1980s, the first being neoliberalism. Neoconservatism is no longer as relevant today as it once was.

In the 1970s there was a feeling amongst many that the UK was getting out of control, what with socialist trade unionists, mass immigration from non-European countries, the counterculture which embraced radical feminism and rejected authority. This feeling was strengthened by the contrast of the stagflating UK economy with the booming Spanish and Greek economies and the recent booms of other European nations.

Neoconservatives were influenced by religious faith and a desire to see its decline halted and Judeo-Christian morals thus upheld. The Bible has a verse which has been taken to prohibit homosexuality, and so the neoconservatives wanted to prohibit its promotion in schools, which they achieved via a clause in the Local Government Act 1988.

However religiosity, if not religious affiliation, has declined in Western countries and it seems this will continue. Neoconservatives have failed in one of the key planks of their agenda. 

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/17/roger-scruton-conservatism-bigotry-anti-immigrant 
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