By Hilary White
LONDON, December 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – David Cameron, the newly elected leader of Britain’s ailing Conservatives, is being hailed as the next best hope for the party, and is emerging quickly as a strong conservative voice in Europe. At 39, Cameron is breaking many of the rules for modern British Tories and is expected to re-direct and revive the once-dominant party that used to be all but synonymous with the Prime Minister’s office.
The photogenic Cameron, in his first speech as party leader to the House of Commons, took a decidedly optimistic tone pointing the previously maudlin Tories towards the future, saying his plans include, “re-civilising our society, with school discipline, with strong families, and with cultural change.”
Cameron said that society is not the same thing as the State, decrying Labour’s “command and control state,” which minutely regulates nearly every aspect of British private as well as public life.
Cameron’s early work includes establishing a new Social Justice Policy Group within the party that will examine ways to raise the expectations of England’s chronic poor. Cameron has identified the breakdown of the traditional family as a major cause of social disorder in Britain.
Cameron is, in a time of failing British self-identity, an unapologetically upper class conservative, having been educated in England’s most prestigious schools, Eton and Oxford – a combination that until recently spelled political death among timid post-Thatcher Conservatives.
A coalition of conservative-leaning European Union politicians has formed under the auspices of the new British Tory leadership that aims at reducing the EU political power in sovereign countries. During Cameron’s leadership campaign, one of the divisions in the Conservative party was between those supporting and those cautioning against what many have decried as British subservience to the leftist EU.
The Financial Times reports today that Cameron promised to pull the Tories out of the continent-wide integrationist European People’s party and establish a new “eurosceptic” grouping. 18 MEP’s and around 50 other participants from 30 countries, including eurosceptics from US think-tanks met in Brussels to discuss the plans.
This move to take the lead in opposing the globalist trends in Europe will be a relief to exhausted pro-life and pro-family NGO’s who have identified the EU as a threat to many countries’ ability to maintain laws favouring traditional moral values.
Cameron was a dark horse in the race for leadership of the party that dominated English politics for nearly 200 years, with expectations resting upon David Davis, a long-serving Tory MP as the favorite.
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