Post-war consensus (Caroline Era)

Butskellism is an initially satirical term used for the emerging ideology formally known as the Post-War Consensus in the. It takes the form of a truce between different classes in society widely perceived to be to the benefit of the greater good, involving Keynesian economic policy, a powerful and growing welfare state and economic intervention and regulation, particularly in the United Kingdom, its successor state the Federated Kingdom of Great Britain and the Isles, and in the British Commonwealth. It later became the more clearly articulated ideology of the British Unionist Party in opposition to the Federalist Party, and of other parties in the Commonwealth nations.