We stand for conservative values, such as 29 minute bus idling
People have said that British conservatives are more liberal than U.S. conservatives. This (also cited here) proves it:
A PETITION signed by more than 150 residents concerned about heavy traffic has been handed over at County Hall.
Residents of St. James Avenue, Upton, Chester are campaigning for traffic calming and a reduction in the speed limit to 20mph outside Upton High School....
Cllr Lott added that residents were also annoyed by bus drivers leaving their engines running for more than 30 minutes while waiting outside the school.
Sounds like a lot of government nitpicky by British Conservatives, and we know that conservatives are against big government, because they say so:
...I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations and that the best government is that which governs least....
Fred Barnes (and no, there is no need to comment on Barnes and Kondracke) said the following in 2003:
...The case for Mr. Bush's conservatism is strong. Sure, some conservatives are upset because he has tolerated a surge in federal spending, downplayed swollen deficits, failed to use his veto, created a vast Department of Homeland Security, and fashioned an alliance of sorts with Teddy Kennedy on education and Medicare. But the real gripe is that Mr. Bush isn't their kind of conventional conservative. Rather, he's a big government conservative. This isn't a description he or other prominent conservatives willingly embrace. It makes them sound as if they aren't conservatives at all. But they are. They simply believe in using what would normally be seen as liberal means--activist government--for conservative ends. And they're willing to spend more and increase the size of government in the process.
Being a big government conservative doesn't bring Mr. Bush close to being a moderate, much less a liberal. On most issues, his position is standard conservative: a pro-lifer who expects to sign a ban on partial birth abortion, he's against stem-cell research and gun control, and has drawn the line at gay marriage. His judicial nominees are so uniformly conservative that liberals are furious....
Ah, the neo-conservatives, who never met a government program they didn't like. Now we just have to wait for the small government liberal.
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