Sentences with phrase «past conservative ideas»

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It is an interesting thesis, although he pushes it too far when he writes that «In the past twenty years, conservative thought as represented in conservative journals and think tanks has increasingly come to reflect southern traditions, experience, and cultural ideas.

But Clegg also went out of his way to disassociate himself from Conservative backbenchers during the press conference, saying the «loopy ideas of Peter Bone» showed that large sections of the party were stuck in the past.

Yet Conservatives and Labour have indicated in the past six months that they are both toying with the idea of renewing the target, albeit in different forms — some excluding overseas students — after the election.

Around 50 Conservative MPs have expressed reservations with Cameron's ideas in the past, but many will be won over by the PM's reassurances.

The Conservative Party is torn between a desire to return to past national certainties (now impossible) and a move towards an outdated idea of a United States of Europe, while economic forces push towards a Europe of regions, where what is really important is whether the Welsh can make a better bid for a Japanese factory than the Catalans.

A renewed commitment to those goals, rather than to the particular means pursued during the past several decades of reform efforts, may help both liberals and conservatives see their way to bold, constructive ideas for improving American schools — and toward alternatives to schools as we know them.

Leaving policy to judges has not served conservative ideas in the past, and this exception shouldn't hearten education reformers on the right in the way it has.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.