Noting discussions of Sir Robert Peel in the discourse.
Robert Peel betrayed the Conservative Party & Britain when he repealed the Corn Laws. Peel’s betrayal, as Disraeli noted, was a crime against the territorial constitution & a theft of power from the country to the city.
Robert Peel betrayed the Conservative Party & Britain when he repealed the Corn Laws. Peel’s betrayal, as Disraeli noted, was a crime against the territorial constitution & a theft of power from the country to the city.
There is a strange Twitter brain-dead-ery that pretends Edmund Burke & Robert Peel were conservatives that anyone should heed or take seriously. Burke was a Whig & he supported the Americans rebelling against their lawful King. Burke suddenly got scared when the French did same.
As for Robert Peel, no man did more to introduce the spivvery & crookery of the moneyed classes into politics than Peel. He repealed the Corn Laws on the pretext of making food cheaper, impoverishing the British countryside for illusions of cheap (foreign) bread. Then came WW1...
If your heroes include Edmund Burke & Robert Peel, then you are most likely of dubious moral character, likely to sell out your King & your countryside, and will be a pliant liberal weathervane for various fashionable causes.
As Dr Johnson said, Lucifer was the first Whig.
As Dr Johnson said, Lucifer was the first Whig.
Christopher Tietjens discussion with Miss Wannop in “Parade’s End” says it all quite well. (Indebted to @DurhamWASP here) 
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