Our consolidated response to the Conservative Party Policy Forum questionnaire on \u00ab\u00a0Values\u00a0\u00bb can be found below:<\/p>\n
Name of Constituency<\/strong>: Conservatives Abroad If you have a Conservative MP, please tick this box to confirm that you have sent a copy of this response to your MP<\/strong>: ?<\/p>\n Please indicate whether you used the accompanying powerpoint presentation and, if so, how useful you found it or in what ways you might suggest it could have been improved<\/strong>: Data Sharing Information: We occasionally like to share CPF comments in a public domain. Please indicate whether you would like any such comments quoted from your Group?s responses to be attributed to your Group, to be anonymous or to remain private:<\/strong> Question 1: Compile a list of up to a dozen values that your group considers to be Conservative values ? the distinctive and enduring core priorities that we should draw on in navigating the challenges of our age.<\/strong> Question 2: A short summary (up to 40 words) of what you understand by:<\/strong> Question 3a: In what areas of life, our communities and the country would you say discrimination, division and the need for real equality<\/strong> [Comment: we agreed this was not the proper concept ? instead fairness should be considered] still persists? Rank the areas that you have identified according to how great a cause for concern you think they are.<\/strong> Question 3b: To what extent do you think it is the responsibility of the Government, of businesses, of charities, of families, of individuals and of other institutions in society to tackle entrenched disadvantage and to promote equality in these areas?<\/strong> Question 4: What Conservative principles do you think should guide the Government?s approach to reforms in each of the following areas?<\/strong> – Idem ?\tSocial reform<\/p>\n ?\tPolitical reform<\/p>\n Other Comments (if any)<\/p>\n Thank You. Please return to: CPF.Papers@conservatives.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our consolidated response to the Conservative Party Policy Forum questionnaire on \u00ab\u00a0Values\u00a0\u00bb can be found below: Name of Constituency: Conservatives Abroad Name of CPF Group: British Conservatives in Paris Name of CPF Coordinator: Paul Thomson Number of attendees: 8 Contact details for response: Paul Thomson BCiP Vice Chairman & CPF Secretary Date of meeting: 29th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,360,364,1],"tags":[164,171,368,363],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-party-forum-values-22","category-conservative-policy-forum-values","category-cpf-response-values-33","category-welcome","tag-ajouter-un-mot-clef","tag-conservative-party","tag-conservative-policy-forum","tag-conservative-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nName of CPF Group<\/strong>: British Conservatives in Paris
\nName of CPF Coordinator<\/strong>: Paul Thomson
\nNumber of attendees<\/strong>: 8
\nContact details for response<\/strong>:
\nPaul Thomson
\nBCiP Vice Chairman & CPF Secretary
\nDate of meeting<\/strong>:\t29th September 2017<\/p>\n
\nWe used it ?
\nFeedback:
\nWe did not use it ? <\/p>\n
\nAttributed\t?
\nAnonymous\t?
\nPrivate\t?<\/p>\n
\n?\tFavouring reform over revolution\t?\tFor representative parliamentary democracy
\n?\tFor the rule of law and for a law-abiding & orderly society\t?\tFor community
\n?\tFor the notion of human stewardship (a responsibility which brings with it obligations & an ennobling endowment)\t?\tFor the dignity of the human person ? associated with a sense of tolerance for differences
\n?\tPatriotism ? love of ?nation? (though not in an ethnic sense) and country\t?\tAcceptance of the fallibility of humans
\n?\tAppreciation for tradition(s) ? respect for the past at the same time as openness to the future\t?\tFor the ?conservatism of the working man?
\n?\tFor pragmatism\t?\tFor ?aspiration?, freedom & a healthy individualism<\/p>\n
\na.\tModern Conservatism<\/strong>
\nWe did not attempt to define these terms
\nb.\tCompassionate Conservatism<\/strong>
\nIdem
\nc.\tOne Nation Conservatism<\/strong>
\nIdem
\nd.\tBlue Collar Conservatism<\/strong>
\nIdem
\nHaving defined each of the phrases, on a scale of 0 to 10, to what extent do each of them resonate with your group?s ideas of Conservativism?<\/strong>
\nComment: there was no unitary group view on any of the four items. Specific scores are instead indicated.
\nModern Conservatism\t0\t1X1\t2\t3X1\t4X2\t5X2\t6\t7\t8\t9\t10X2
\nCompassionate Conservatism\t0\t1X1\t2X1\t3X4\t4\t5\t6\t7\t8\t9\t10X2
\nOne Nation Conservatism\t0\t1X2\t2\t3\t4X1\t5X2\t6\t7\t8\t9\t10X2
\nBlue Collar Conservatism\t0\t1X1\t2\t3X1\t4X3\t5\t6\t7\t8X1\t9\t10X2<\/p>\n
\n?\t(In no particular ranking:)
\n–\tEducation is too plutocratic (cf desirability of supporting grammar schools or finding some (better?) equivalent
\n–\tForeign languages should be compulsory to a much greater degree ? to enable those from a less highly educated\/cultivated background to be less disadvantaged compared to those exposed to foreign cultures\/languages because of family influence
\n–\tYoung people need to be given a better overall ?deal? going into adult life: the combination of high housing prices, high student debt and low wage growth is crippling ? consider (a) lower tuition fees (university), (b) material increase in housing supply, (c) otherwise employing tools to reduce the cost of housing for the younger generation
\n?
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\n?\t<\/p>\n
\n?\tNot covered due to shortage of time
\n?\t?\t?\t<\/p>\n
\n?\tBrexit negotiations<\/p>\n