The British Conservative Government’s Political Elite, and the European Union: Safeguarding British Interests (With Special Reference to: 2010 – 2016)

The ‘natural’ Party of Britain the Conservative Party, took the UK into co-operation with Europe. The idea of a European co-operation was a British one, by the Conservative Prime Minister, of WWII coalition Government, Winston Churchill. It is now the very ‘natural’ Party of Britain which is taking the country out of this co-operation, which is now known – as the European Union.

The issue is deeper than what one might think of as, the effects of ‘globalisation’ it is much more profound than the ‘globalised’ economy.

The British Conservative Government’s Political Elite, and
The European Union: Safeguarding British Interests
(With Special Reference To: 2010 – 2016)

The British Political Elite:
social and historical context and background

As class and social structure has a direct impact on political life, it seems appropriate to start the discussion by giving an outline of the social structure of Britain and of its modern history. To begin with we shall define the nature of the state and nation. In the political sphere, constitution remains unwritten and probably unwritable, and contains large elements that are the effect and residue of long-established custom and convention, rather than legal or executive recognition, and is completely open to amendment in every particular, containing (and probably able to contain) no equivalent of the entrenched clause. Sovereignty resides, according to many observers, in the ‘Monarch in Parliament’, an expression which indicates the peculiar combination of hereditary monarchy and parliamentary representation that has led to the contemporary institutions. The actual locus of this sovereignty is in fact hard to determine: executive power is considered to reside not with the monarch but with the Prime Minister or, to be more exact, the Prime Ministerial Cabinet.