1. Origins of the One Nation To survive, the conservatives adopt reforms that grow out of the past. And this branch of conservatism identifies its ideas with those of Disraeli. He “is commonly held to be the source of One Nation theme.”Although many of its concepts can be found in earlier thinkers and politicians, the terminology of One Nation begins with Disraeli. In his novels, notably Sybil, he was preoccupied with the social divisions or ‘two nations’, which he characterized as: Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed by a different breeding, …show more content…
His speeches and ideas, left the party with some fragments of a philosophy that could transcend class differences by becoming a national presence with an appeal to all communities, no longer the defender of the landed and aristocratic elite alone. One Nation in its Disraelian form can be seen as a necessary to talk about the poor, and for the rich to act to ameliorate their condition ‘the angels in marble’ Disraeli’s memorable phrase .But the rich should remain in the ascendancy as they were an essential part of the social fabric. After his death there was no revival of the ‘One Nation rhetoric and action’ until Stanley Baldwin’s leadership, he was the first conservative leader to speak of ‘One Nation myth’, in response to the significant extension of the emerging welfare state. As with the disraelian era, this outcome was to help the party adapt to the working class dominated electorate following another extension of the franchise. For years the Tories saw no need to do more than offer mild assistance to the poor in their distress. Baldwin insisted that the Party must go much further. He committed it to the task of bringing peace in the country between all classes of the community. In a speech on 4 December 1924, He