With the Conservative Party's new buzzword 'change', isn't there title oxymoronic.?

Question

If conservative means keeping things the same, how can they actively promote change? It doesn't even mean returning to old ways when they return to government, which you could say was conservative. Perhaps 'New Conservativism' is on the cards???

Sorry, title should read 'their'. My most sincere apologies.

Sorry Jim G, maybe where you come from dictionaries are hard to come by. My heart weeps for you.
It means an idea in which something contradicts something else. Is this simple enough for you?

Answer 1

Good point...just another example of the idiocies of British Politics. Labour is supposed to be the working-class party....they've done feck all for the working-class man except make him poorer.

But they'll just stick a New infront of it like you say, makes it totally different.

Answer 2

The dictionary definition of "conservative is "favoring traditional views and values," the text of which also states the implied opposition to change, but that is simply a statement of opinion inserted to serve a liberal agenda. Conservatives don't oppose change; we support responsible reform initiated by private initiative, with as little interference by government as possible. The true conservative will resist the "progress" pushed on America by welfare state liberals who simply want to control the lives and actions of the citizenry rather than promote useful change.

Conservatives believe in the Constitution and in preserving the rights of Americans which have been placed in jeopardy by over 70 years of liberal "progress," from the New Deal to the Great Society to the present day.

I think the biggest mistake of the Bush Administration--and I'm a Bush supporter, mind you--is to borrow to closely from the liberal manual in the name of national security. The danger is that in 2008, the public will be gulled into electing a Democratic President; in that case, any concerns about our liberties now would pale next to what could happen then.

Answer 3

,intellectual morons," smart people who make themselves stupid by letting "ideology do their thinking"; stock or fanatical answers, bad logic and lies are all part of their putative arsenal.


Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?

Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose “a mortal threat to the security of every nation”?

Why does the Princeton professor known as the father of the animal rights movement object to humans eating animals but not to humans having sex with them—and why does PETA defend that position?

In other words, why do smart people fall for stupid ideas

It is startling how many Americans—and particularly how many media, academic, and political elites—fall for bad ideas. The trouble is, their lies become institutionalized as truth, and we all suffer as a result.

•How the environmental movement, spawned by a “scientist” whose doomsday predictions are almost always wrong, has bred fanaticism, stupidity, and dishonesty

How the hero of the animal rights crowd is a crank who promotes infanticide and euthanasia

•How a scientific fraud—and pervert—launched the sexual revolution

•How abortion rights activists ignore (or cover up) the fact that their matron saint advocated eugenics and concentration camps

•How our universities have become hothouses of leftist ideology

•How historians and journalists have airbrushed history to turn a racial separatist into a civil rights icon

Answer 4

Thank you heroic liberal!....... you're on the ball for sure, good to hear.

The conservatives are about conservatism oddly enough- the 'change' mantra is actually drawn from their inability to do anything right in the last decade plus, so I guess the 'change' part is wishful 'thinking', and I use that word very loosely when referring to english conservatives; they are hoping that they can change their current comatose state.

Morons par excellence.

They are as proactive as a little nappy laden child who has wet himself, and doesn't know how to take the nappy off..... and mummy thatcher has gone senile.....

Answer 5

Doesn't it annoy you when people ask their own questions insread of answering yours coz they've run out of legit "asks"?
If Labour can create a whole new centre right political party and still keep the leftwing voters (who haven't noticed the shift despite the word NEW cropping up), why can't the conservatives have left wing policies and hoodwink their voters into believing Conservative still means Tory?

Answer 6

Cameron's turning the Tories into bloody Labour!

Answer 7

Well, at the end of the day...

9 out of 10 cats prefer whiskers.

Answer 8

i think you're on to something. they'd be fools if they didn't try to repackage themselves at this point. think of them as new 'TIDE' detergent, with a new color like blue, in there somewhere.... mr. heroic liberal is a jerkoff, don't you think?

Answer 9

it's called "Newspeak"- it's double plus ungood

Answer 10

oxymoronic ? take your head out of your **** and explain