Quote Originally Posted by Elwood Blues View Post
Disraeli was of course the first one nation conservative.

The Liberal-Labour (these were Liberal MP's backed by a Trade Union) said of Disraeli's workers reforms of the 1870's "The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty."

Still not sure why Splott Parker thinks so badly of him
And the tories have spent the last hundred and forty years more than making up for their apparent generosity towards the working class in the 1870s .

My teacher was right though, Gladstone would probably have felt more at home in today's Conservative party than Disraeli.