Conservative and Unionist Party

Conservative & Unionist Party	Conservative & Unionist Party 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
Leader 	El Salvador 	 	 	
Deputy Leader 	Rakas21 	 	 	
Founded 	May 2005 	 	 	
Membership 	~240 	 	 	
Ideology 	Social conservatismEconomic liberalismSoft euroscepticismBritish unionism	 	 	
Political position 	Centre-Right 	 	 	
Colours 	Blue 	 	 	
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty" - Margaret Thatcher 
The Conservative and Unionist Party (commonly shortened to the Conservative Party) is a right wing party in the MHoC which believes in ensuring nobody is prevented from reaching their potential. The party believes in pragmatic capitalism in the form of low taxes, strong preservation of private property rights and strong incentives for corporations to invest in the nation.
== History ==
The Conservatives are another founding party of the Model House of Commons. The Conservatives have recorded a huge variety of results, failing to contest the Fifth Parliament and thus winning no seats, but averaging approximately 11 seats per Parliament, with a peak of 19 seats in the Ninth Parliament, the highest achieved by any party to date. In the earlier era of the Model House of Commons, the Conservatives were the sole right-wing party and as a result were very successful in forming government against their key rivals at the time the Liberal Democrats, who had to fight for the leftwing vote with Labour and later the Socialists. During the Second Parliament, a small splinter group of Conservatives abandoned the party and formed the Libertarian Party. A series of defections saw the Conservative Party disbanded during the Fourth Parliament as they did not have enough activity, and they returned no seats at the Fifth Parliament General Election.
Reformed under new leadership, they contested the Sixth Parliament General Election and had returned to full strength by the Eighth Parliament, forming a minority government. During the Ninth Parliament, they returned 19 seats, an all time record for any one party. Unfortunately, their coalition offer to the Speaker with the Libertarians had the same amount of seats, but less votes, than the Liberal Democrat-Socialist-Labour coalition offer. The Conservatives caused a constitutional crisis by refusing to accept the legitimacy of the Liberal Democrat-Socialist-Labour coalition offer on the grounds the constitution didn't specify whether a three party coalition was acceptable or not. The result was a null government for that term. Unfortunately for the Conservatives, the size of the party lead to a schism and another splinter group left the party, forming the Patriotic Conservative Party. The Conservatives went on to lose 9 seats at the Tenth Parliament General Election, but entered government as a coalition partner in a Liberal Democrat-Conservative-Centre Party government.
In the Eleventh Parliament, the Conservatives managed to reconcile the differences between themselves, the Patriotic Conservatives (now called UKIP), and the Libertarians, allowing them to form a coalition government. This successful partnership continued into the Twelfth Parliament, although UKIP was not present for the second term. The thirteenth Parliament marked the end of Conservative dominance within the House and Labour served as leading partners in the next 2 governments including a rainbow coalition which included UKIP. The Conservatives in the 14th parliament underwent a period of internal restructuring with the replacement of 2 leaders however after winning a by-election they then launched a vote of no confidence against the incumbent Labour party who had seen its coalition with the Liberal Democrats collapse due to inactivity, Labour avoided the resulting vote of no confidence which had cross party support and called a general election. Despite being the largest party following the general election the Labour Party found no support for their continued governance and this allowed the Conservatives to form a minority coalition with UKIP and the Independent Faland. The latter however was forced to resign after the Ad Hoc scandal, and this government would turn out to be the most active government in MHoC history. In the Sixteenth Parliament, they won 7 seats, the worst for any contested election and formed the Official Opposition however following the next general election they returned to government in the 17th parliament as part of a union of the right, a Conservative-UKIP-Libertarian coalition.
It is worth noting that from January - June 2007, the party closed down.
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In the 26th General Election, CoffeeGeek led the Conservative Party to an improved result of 12 seats and successfully negotiated a coalition agreement with the Liberal and National Conservative Parties. Connor27 launched a Motion of No Confidence in Her Majesty's Government which looked as if it were going to fail until a statement made by the former Deputy Leader Vitiate criticising CoffeeGeek for asking him to resign as Deputy Leader. This government was cut short in March 2018 when the Nation Conservative party, led by Mr T, withdrew from the coalition because it was going to collapse anyways.
== Achievements ==
*Led the most active government ever in MHOC history. 
*Released the second ever TSR Budget which led to the abolition of VAT. 
*Made prudent investments supporting development of key infrastructure and advanced technology via motions regarding desalinisation, high speed north, thorium nuclear and the UK space industry. 
*Introduced an educational voucher system allowing the poorest pupils access to our world class private education system. 
*Conducted the first TSR Defense Review. 
*Repealed part of the Vienna Convention in order to remove diplomatic immunity and ensure adherence to UK law. 
*Made investments in the UK space industry, Thorium nuclear power and research and development. 
*Legalized both heterosexual civil partnerships and homosexual marriage. 
*Held a constitutional referendum affirming the legitimacy of the monarchy.
== Electoral performance ==
Election 	Votes	Vote %	% Change 	Rank	Seats	Seat Change	Outcome of Election
May 2005 	 	21.55%	N/A 	3rd 	 	N/A 	Liberal Democrat Minority
November 2005 	 	23.97%	2.42% 	2nd 	 	2 	Liberal Democrat Minority
May 2006 	 	25.25%	1.28% 	1st 	 	1 	Conservative-Monster Raving Loony Party Coalition
November 2006 	 	16.03%	9.22% 	4th 	 	6 	Monster Raving Loony Party Minority
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
December 2007 	 	19.21%	 	 	 	 	
2nd 	 	10 	Labour-Monster Raving Loony Party Coalition	 	 	 	
June 2008 	 	23.58%	4.37% 	2nd 	 	3 	Liberal Democrat-Labour Coalition
November 2008 	 	25.78%	2.2% 	1st 	 	1 	Conservative Minority
May 2009 	 	33.08%	7.3% 	1st 	 	5 	No formal government in place
November 2009 	 	18.38%	14.7% 	2nd 	 	9 	Liberal Democrat-Conservative-Centre Coalition
May 2010 	 	16.38%	2.0% 	2nd 	 	No change 	Conservative-Libertarian-UKIP Coalition
October 2010 	 	27.90%	11.52% 	1st 	 	4 	Conservative-Libertarian Coalition
April 2011 	 	26.60%	1.3% 	2nd 	 	No change 	Labour-Liberal Democrat-Centre-UKIP Coalition
October 2011 	87 	18.20%	8.4% 	2nd 	 	4 	Labour-Liberal Democrat Coalition
March 2012 	131 	18.35%	0.15% 	2nd 	 	No change 	Conservative-UKIP-Independent Coalition
September 2012	 	11.56%	6.79% 	3rd 	 	3 	Labour-Socialist-Independent Coalition
April 2013 	110 	18.09%	6.53% 	2nd 	 	3 	Conservative-UKIP-Libertarian Coalition
September 2013	76 	16.27%	1.82% 	2nd 	 	1 	Conservative-Liberal-UKIP Coalition
March 2014 	 	17.01%	0.74% 	2nd 	 	No change 	Labour-Socialist-Green Coalition
September 2014	104 	16.64%	0.47% 	3rd 	 	No change 	Green-Labour-Liberal Coalition
May 2015 	 	22.40%	5.76% 	2nd 	 	3 	Labour-Liberal Coalition
Green-UKIP-Liberal Coalition
November 2015 	 	24.69%	2.29% 	2nd 	 	1 	Labour-Liberal Coalition
April 2016 	45 	24.3% 	0.39% 	1st 	 	No change 	Conservative-Liberal-National Liberal Coalition
October 2016 	38 	25.3% 	1.0% 	2nd 	 	No change 	Labour-Socialist Coalition
June 2017 	32 	15.46%	9.84% 	3rd 	 	5 	Labour-Liberal-Socialist Coalition 
December 2017 	37 	23.27%	7.81% 	2nd 	 	3 	Conservative-Liberal-UKIP CoalitionLiberal-Libertarian Coalition
June 2018 	40 	31.25%	7.98% 	1st 	 	5 	Conservative Minority
December 2018 	46 	32.17%	0.92% 	1st 	 	1 	Conservative Minority
July 2019 	37 	23.12%	9.05% 	3rd 	 	4 	Liberal Democrat-Labour Coalition
December 2019 	35 	30.9% 	7.78% 	2nd 	 	4 	Labour-Liberal Democrat-Independent Coalition
April 2020 	46 	30.87%	0.03% 	1st 	 	1 	Conservative-Citizen's Coalition
November 2020 	30 	30.61%	0.26% 	1st 	 	No change 	Liberal Democrat-Labour Coalition
== Leader ==
There have been 18 Conservative Leaders to date with Beekeeper being the first one and Life_peer being the current one and the only one to have served as Leader in two spells.
Conservative Leaders who also served as Prime Minister at some point during their tenure are marked with an asterisk.
Leader	Leader 	Took office 	Left office
 	Beekeeper* 	April 2005 	September 2005
 	Vienna* 	September 2005	May 2006
 	Bismark* 	May 2006 	September 2006
 	SolInvictus* 	September 2006	January 2007
 	Deej2* 	June 2007 	February 2008
 	Unioflife* 	February 2008 	December 2008
 	Daveireland* 	December 2008 	October 2009
 	Bagration 	October 2009 	March 2010
 	L i b* 	March 2010 	December 2010
 	Nothos* 	December 2010 	February 2011
 	Indievertigo*	February 2011 	November 2011
 	Orange Stu 	November 2011 	February 2012
 	Rakas21* 	February 2012 	October 2013
 	Qwertish* 	October 2013 	October 2014
 	Cryptographic	November 2014 	February 2015
 	Life_peer* 	February 2015 	November 2016
 	Tanqueray91 	November 2016 	June 2017
 	CoffeeGeek* 	June 2017 	March 2018
 	Life_peer* 	March 2018 	December 2018
 	ns_2* 	December 2018 	November 2019
 	El Salvador* 	November 2019 	Incumbent
== Deputy Leader ==
There have been 23 Conservative Deputy Leaders to date with UniofLife being the first one and EagleKingdom being the current one. bun was the only Deputy Leader to have served on two separate occasions.
Deputy Leaders who also served as Leader at some point are marked with an asterisk.
Deputy Leader	Deputy Leader 	Took office 	Left office
 	UniofLife* 	Unknown 	February 2008
 	Daveireland* 	February 2008 	December 2008
 	BruceTaylor (Nothos)*	December 2008 	January 2009
 	Matthew_Lowson 	January 2009 	August 2009
 	tucker672 	August 2009 	March 2010
 	adamrules247 	March 2010 	April 2010
 	Indievertigo* 	April 2010 	December 2010
 	cambo211 	December 2010 	September 2011
 	OrangeStu* 	September 2011	November 2011
 	bun 	November 2011 	March 2012
 	Jarred 	March 2012 	February 2013
 	Rhadamanthus 	February 2013 	October 2013
 	bun 	October 2013 	July 2014
 	Jarred 	August 2014 	October 2014
 	Life_peer* 	November 2014 	February 2015
 	TeeEff 	February 2015 	July 2015
 	Tanqueray91* 	July 2015 	November 2016
 	jamestg 	November 2016 	December 2016
 	adam9317 	December 2016 	January 2017
 	CoffeeGeek* 	January 2017 	June 2017
 	Vitiate 	July 2017 	February 2018
 	ns_2* 	February 2018 	December 2018
 	Andrew97 	December 2018 	August 2019
 	EagleKingdom 	August 2019 	March 2020
 	Rakas21* 	March 2020 	Incumbent
==Chairman==
The Chairman position was created in October 2012 and it has since been implemented by some other parties. However, it was abolished in May 2016 and the position is not currently being used.
There were 3 Conservative Chairmen with bun being both the first and last one.
Chairmen who also served as Leader at some point are marked with an asterisk.
Chairman	Chairman 	Took office 	Left office
 	bun 	March 2012 	October 2013
 	Life_peer*	October 2013	August 2014
 	tehFrance 	August 2014 	March 2015
 	bun 	March 2015 	May 2016
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