To What Extent Can the Modern Conservative Party Be Considered One Nation?

Since 1979 the conservative party has undergone significant changes from the traditional conservative party which focused on ideas about human nature, order and pragmatism, first with new right conservatism under Thatcher then with the current conservative party. The current conservative party however, can be seen to still be committed to its traditional conservative principles such as Euro-scepticism and that they remain largely traditionalist. However there are many ways in which the conservative party has changed such as taxation, education and the welfare state.

The concept of nationhood is a complex one. What makes a country a nation? What is a nation? In this essay, we will attempt to gain an understanding of what a nation is, and why Canada is in fact a nation, not merely because we meet certain criteria, but because we, as Canadians, believe it is so.

The National health services (NHS) provides a comprehensive healthcare services across the entire nation. It is considered to be UK’s proudest institution, and is envied by many other countries because of its free of cost health delivery to its population. Nevertheless, it is often seen as a ‘political football’ as it affects all of us in some way and hence everyone carry an opinion about it (Cass, 2006). Factors such as government policies, funding, number of service users, taxation etc all make up small parts of this large complex organisation. Therefore, any imbalances within one sector can pose a substantial risk on the overall NHS (Wheeler & Grice, 2000). This essay will discuss whether the NHS aim of reducing the nations need

The NHS has grown to become the world’s largest publicly funded health service system since 1948(Nhs.uk, 2015).There are many issues and disputes in NHS. Nowadays,some people believe that the NHS should be abolished or privatized,because it can solve many issues with NHS.This essay agree that the NHS should not be abolished or privatized.

The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, has set out the government’s plans to reform the NHS in England. The plans, documented in a new white paper entitled ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, state that more power will be given to patients and professionals in the design and delivery of health and social care. This briefing outlines a summary of the key reforms. Please note, some terms which require further clarification are explained in a glossary at the end of this document. The white paper focuses on four key areas: 1. 2. 3. 4. Putting patients and the public first Improving healthcare outcomes Autonomy, accountability and democratic

This essay will examine the impact of the Conservative party during their period in office between 1951 and 1964. The assessments by historians of these thirteen years vary widely as the Conservative rule left behind a mixed feeling about its achievements. We will therefore be discussing to what extent their period in office can be described as “thirteen years wasted”, based on their performances in the political, economic and social sectors.

The Labour government in 1945-1951 achieved a high degree of activity and success, despite working within ‘the aftermath of war’ which inevitably ‘brings enormous difficulties’. The Labour government devoted their power to reconstructing a better nation, one that would be a ‘better place in which to be born, to grow up, and to live and even die’. On the other hand it is possible to criticise Labour due to their ‘irresponsible’ spending.

It was as leader of the NDP that he advocated for a national health-care system. Although interestingly, while most Canadians would regard Douglas as the ‘Father of Medicare’ and the CBC designated ‘Greatest Canadian’, it was actually ‘his forgotten successor’ who legislated it’. (Reynolds)

Believe that the NHS should not to be privatised but reformed to meet the challenges of the 21st century while remaining in the public sector. She pointed out that across the country, the NHS is selling off its land and buildings and closing its services. This is happening at an unprecedented rate which is switching NHS funds and services away from NHS services to the private sector. The total debt is £50bn rising to £90bn and will lock-in future governments and future taxpayers for many decades to come. The NHS currently pays £0.5bn pounds a year in PFI charges and this debt is set to quadruple to £2.3bn a year by 2010. The beneficiaries are the banks, the shareholders and the venture capitalists, the construction industry and facilities management. The losers are the service users, staff and the British public. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/04/thenewprofiteers)

In today’s world a big topic of discussion is healthcare. Currently, the United States uses Obamacare. Many believe that Obamacare is nice step up from the previous healthcare system but others may disagree and seek a different, better, solution from other countries. Great Britain is one of those other countries and they run their healthcare based on the National Health Service, a completely free healthcare service.

Beginning in Saskatchewan with the help of the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation in coalition with the New Democratic Party holding control in the province of Sasakachwan and acquiring great influence through the support of labour workers in other provinces they were able to pressure the government towards reform and grasp the attention of the working class (Maioni, 1997, p.415). The joining of an organization like the CCF and the political party of NDP created great influence that led to the formation of universal health care by means of a third party. As opposed to the United States who were unable to convince the organization nor the political party to get involved in the reforms of health services, this stood in the way of reform, the inability to form a coalition between these two groups and inability to convince them of reforms in healthcare led to the rejection (Maioni, 1997, p.420). It was not solely an issue of the lack of third party representation rather that health care reform was not an idea that had an opportunity to be tested in a state under a trial basis therefore they were unable to weigh the benefits or consequences as had happened in Saskatchewan, in which they essentially had senn how the system worked and drew up the conclusion that that universal health care would be a benefit to Canada (Maioni, 1997, p.421).

As the NHS is a major factor of the welfare given to the people of

As Liberal MP Keith Martin advocates private health care as a solution to fix Canada's health-care system, consist several downfalls. Martin states, "I believe we need a parallel private system ... we should allow people to pay for private services that are completely separate from the public system". This is ironic because, this shows that Canadians should

The conservative party has been in existence since the 1670s and was first called the ‘Tories’, a term used by the Scottish and Irish to describe a robber. This party is a right- wing party which believed in conserving the tradition and the king, as the name entails. David Cameron, the current party leader became the leader in 2005. He is also the present prime minister of Great Britain and he has made a lot of changes since he became the leader of the party. In this essay, I will talk about the history of the party, looking into detail at their gradual changes or transition in ideology and the various changes that David Cameron has made to the party’s image and beliefs.

Neo-liberalism has had the greatest impact on public policy in New Zealand over the past 20 years. An example of this ideology in policy making in New Zealand history would be The National party in the 1990’s. National significantly reduced the state’s role in the labour market, and introduced markets in public housing and education. A more recent example is the current National government and their benefits policy. In 2008 National focussed on getting beneficiaries into employment. National’s leader John Key announced that they were committing to a benefit policy that would act as a safety net, but encourage beneficiaries to go out and source other forms of income (Key, 2008). This is a neo-liberal idea in the sense of having minimal state intervention. The plan to put in place a tax system that encourages people to work hard and not rely on the welfare state, and the continuing of shrinking the size of government sees that the future intentions of the current National party is going to carry on down a neo-liberal road (Key, 2008).