... coherent policies' and how he seemingly adapts and invents policies and ideologies to suit the situation in order to keep/get himself to the top of the 'greasy pole'. They argued that Disraeli did no more than to 'dress modest, piecemeal reforms up in fancy rhetoric' (Walton) and that in all his glorious speeches of the 1870s and before, little in the way of concrete policy was actually spelt out. Walton comments, "The only Disraelian aspects (to the policies passed during his time in office) were rhetorical." and Blake adds that Disraeli's ideology was 'piecemeal' and that he had no lifelong project just a hunger to get to the top. It is easy to see how this opinion could be formed: Disraeli began by standing as an independent Whig radical and moved to the conservative party, he joined the young England group and attacked Peel's anti protectionist policies, until taking them ...

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