Steve’s Reviews > George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I > Status Update

"After 12 years in government the Conservatives were an exhausted force. It was surprising perhaps that a party so predicated on privilege had lasted so long, though as governments have learned since, you can get voters to vote against their own economic interests if you can find something sufficiently powerful to counter them with - religion, a powerful hate, a collective (even if unrealistic) aspiration."