Cornerstone Group
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The Cornerstone Group is a highly socially conservative group in the United Kingdom that works from within the Conservative Party. It's essentially the rough British equivalent of the Republican Party, though it chooses to work with (relative) moderates from within another party rather than start their own, though some members have been flirting with UKIP lately.
[edit] Typical policies
Pretty much what you'd expect from hardcore social conservatives. Opposed to gay marriage and generally fairly homophobic,[1] global warming is a hoax, ban abortion, teach sexual abstinance in schools, hostility to contraceptives, more restrictions on immigration, and a vehement harted of liberalism. Their platform sums it up thusly:
“”"We believe that these values must be stressed: tradition; nation; family; religious ethics; free enterprise. We want to use the leadership election to argue for principles and policies, not about personalities. We must seize the centre ground and pull it kicking and screaming towards us. That is the only way to demolish the foundations of the liberal establishment and demonstrate to the electorate the fundamental flaws on which it is based."[2]
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In other words, there's a reason why even other Conservative Party members are embarrassed by them.[3]
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[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Their "president" Edward Leigh is more or less openly a homophobe
- ↑ http://centrallobby.politicshome.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/conservative-mpsnbspcall-fornbspmoral-values-agenda/
- ↑ Such as Alan Duncan