Originally posted by Bill the Cat
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- Abortion is legal in the UK, with a few restrictions ("abortion is generally allowed for socio-economic reasons during the first twenty-four weeks of the pregnancy" -wiki), and government-funded, and the Conservative party is not proposing changing this.
- Same sex marriage was recognized in England during the tenure of a Conservative party government, and the Conservative party isn't proposing changing this.
- Their leader, Boris Johnson, seems to lean more atheist than Christian:
Although baptised a Catholic and later confirmed into the Church of England, Johnson has stated that "his faith comes and goes" and that he is not a serious practising Christian. He holds ancient Greek statesman and orator Pericles as a personal hero. According to Johnson's biographer, Andrew Gimson, regarding ancient Greek and Roman polytheism: "it is clear that [Johnson] is inspired by the Romans, and even more by the Greeks, and repelled by the early Christians". Johnson views secular humanism positively and sees it as owing more to the classical world than Christian thinking. -wiki
- Boris Johnson also has a history of drug use, and a Trump-like history of marriages and affairs, as well as one of his affairs leading to a child and another to abortions.
About the only value I can identify in the UK Conservative party that US social conservatives on this forum would like, is its anti-immigration rhetoric / desire to change immigration policy.
(And that's not something I associate very strongly with social conservativism anyway, because here in New Zealand the right-wing party wants massive immigration in order to drive up house prices and make their rich home-owning voters richer, while the left wing parties are worried about rising house prices and environmental impacts etc and so want less immigration)
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