And so the Conservative party have today claimed that they are in fact the progressives of UK (and Welsh) politics.
As a refresher for the Tories here’s some dictionary definitions of conservative and progressive.
Conservative –adjective
| 1. |
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. |
| 2. |
cautiously moderate or purposefully low: a conservative estimate. |
| 3. |
traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness:conservative suit. |
| 4. |
(often initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to the Conservative party. |
| 5. |
(initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Conservative Jews or Conservative Judaism. |
| 6. |
having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative. |
| 7. |
Mathematics. (of a vector or vector function) having curl equal to zero; irrotational; lamellar. |
–noun
| 8. |
a person who is conservative in principles, actions, habits, etc. |
| 9. |
a supporter of conservative political policies. |
| 10. |
(initial capital letter) a member of a conservative political party, esp. the Conservative party in Great Britain. |
Progressive –adjective
| 1. |
favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters: a progressive mayor. |
| 2. |
making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community. |
| 3. |
characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement. |
| 4. |
(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to any of the Progressive parties in politics. |
| 5. |
going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step. |
| 6. |
noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income. |
| 7. |
of or pertaining to progressive education: progressive schools. |
| 8. |
Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference. |
| 9. |
Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease. |
–noun
| 10. |
a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, esp. in political matters. |
| 11. |
(initial capital letter) a member of a Progressive party. |
| 12. |
Grammar.
| a. |
the progressive aspect. |
| b. |
a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it. |
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One talks about liking things how they are, the other about change and moving things forward. Not exactly compatible concepts
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