New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

If there were actual merits to such a worldview, you wouldn't have had to allude to the 19th century. All it is is the usual conservative corruption, racism and sleaze. Nothing more.

To put it simply, Conservatism is about one thing and one thing only. Privilege. It exists solely for the purpose of defending and promoting the interests of the elite. 

Conservatives tend to view people as good or bad while Liberals or left leaning non-conservaties tend to judge people by their actions. In the US, Republicans lost their sh*t over Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky but then they had dismissed him as being "bad" because he was a Democrat. Today, they've turned themselves into a cult based on an adultuerous failed businessman. Clinton was an opponent, so he was bad. Trump is one of them so what does it matter if he uses the services of prostitutes or dodges paying taxes. Wealthy people shouldn't even have to pay taxes anyway according to some.

The one thing conservatives cannot abide above anything else is questioning hierarchy and this is the essential thesis of liberalism. They turned on Bill Gates because his excessive philanthropy is anathema to them. If poor people didn't deserve their poverty, they wouldn't be poor. Capitalism is God's way of determining who is smart and who is poor. Something something bootstraps, etc etc... They're on top so the system must be working just fine.

Someone like Marcus Rashford is a walking contradiction to this fallacious and self-centred ideology. A man from a poor background who asks questions about hierarchy while amassing a sizeable fortune for himself and acting to improve the lives of others. They see people like him as threats not just because he refutes their excuses for hoarding wealth and power but also because they know that they have no ideas or reasons to maintain a voting base. It's all about the grubby hoarding of power, wealth and influence and nothing higher than that.

Working class conservative voters enjoy having someone else to look down upon so the media caters to this by demonising immigrants, welfare recipients, people from the BAME community, BLM, LGBT people, etc. Of course, people from these backgrounds with the "right" beliefs in hierarchy can be recruited to add legitimacy which is why you see people like Priti Patel in senior positions.

Conservatism is a dead ideology. Religion isn't there to prop it up the way it was and, here in the UK, Brexit and the ageing population aren't going to be enough to sustain it for all that much longer. The Tories aren't going anywhere but there's no real reason for anyone outside the circle to join the party either. Today's Extinction Rebellion and BLM activists aren't tomorrow's Conservative voter base the same way that our parents' environmentally minded contemporaries were. Young people expect to live with a lower quality of life than their parents for the first time in modern history, so they don't really care for the social contract or the protection of others' privilege that this has been warped into by the right.