Russian translation of 'compassionate conservatism'?

[Robert Orr]

>Russian doesn't use this metaphor at all, as far as I know,
>but it comes from the Thatcher cabinet days and draws on the
>argo of the English public (which here means private and upper
>class) school. If you were a more gentle and understanding type
>you were labelled "wet" by your fellows.



This usage actually percolated far further down (?!) than the above would
imply.  I did not attend a "private upper class" school, but I remember the
epithet from long before the Thatcher era.

A Canadian equivalent might be "krasnyj (!?) konservatizm" (torizm)'

Robert Orr
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