should also have confidence in what we might offer others. Each of us should consider and apply to ourselves the graffiti slogan which appeared all over Eastern Europe in 1989:
If not now, when? If not us, who?
Notes
Chapter 1: The Christian Democratic Tradition in Britain
1
Spring Harvest Seminar, 'Where Truth and Justice Meet', 1989.
2
The Extraordinary Black Book, London, 1831, pp 20-21.
3
Donald Reeves (ed), The Church and the State, Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
4
The Universe (The Christian Supplement, No 4, 1990).
5
Garth Lean, God's Politician, Helmers and Howard, 1987.
6 Thomas Gisborne, MP for Stafford, 1830-1, Derbyshire, 1832-7, and Nottingham, 1843-7. 7
Presbyterian Herald, March, 1989.
8 One-nationism has its genesis in Disraeli's novel, Sybil or The Two Nations, and contrasts the rich and poor. It has since been used as a popular description of those Conservatives who believe in public spending as a way of maintaining social cohesion and bridging the gap between the affluent and least well off. 9 An extract from Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage, published in 1861, vividly illustrates this type of Conservatism. This is how Trollope describes Lady Lufton, a High Church Tory: 'She liked cheerful, quiet, well-to-do people, who loved their Church, their country, and their Queen, and who were not too anxious