Elective Dictatorship: The Plot by Britain’s Radical Conservatives

BY: ALAN WARING & JOHN BROADWAY

2010-2015 Tory-Lib Dem coalition continued One Nation style, while a radical right movement grew opposing EU membership.

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Brexit advocacy surged as the ERG pressured PM Cameron for a non-binding referendum, exerting outsized influence.

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The pro-Brexit campaign was well-organized, funded, and used advanced digital methods, including alarmist "fake facts" and data mining.

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Brexiteers/ERG embrace a radical-right agenda: anti-EU, free market, law-and-order, hostile towards welfare, immigrants, and minorities.

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The proclivities of the Brexiteers align more with far-right parties and fringe groups than with traditional party values.

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Conservative Party transformed, resembling radical-right takeover of US Republicans, largely unnoticed by the electorate.

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Authors were One Nation Conservative supporters until 2019, when Brexit and Johnson's authoritarianism emerged, erasing their influence.

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Underfunding led NHS and social care to dysfunction and collapse. Conservative agenda favors private provision over state.

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