I will be writing about Cameron's speech, but I think it is better if I write it once I have been scraped from the ceiling. Needless to say, I am fuming and actively considering my position within the Conservative Party. I want the best for Britain, and although I believe Britain will be better off under a Tory government, rather than the shower we have at the moment, I still feel David Cameron is fudging the issue of Europe, rather than dealing with the problem head-on.
More tomorrow.
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Can you sense a power shift going on towards our true conservative, free market principles?
A resignation in itself, Andrew, is a proper gesture but only if it is done in bulk. It must be the case that it is done in unison, with large names also doing it. I wouldn’t worry too much about Cameron, in the sense that he is just a Brownite and far gone.
Much more important is finding a viable direction for this groundswell, such as Eurosceptics banding together. It may be that the only step is joining UKIP or LPUK and I’m chatting to them at the moment – there are rich pickings in the disaffected Tories.
I can’t blame those two parties for jumping in now – gosh, it’s their duty to. But I think stage one is to see if our own MPs will jump. Forget Cameron in this. We need to put to them that we now need their leadership – our letters need to get through to them. Some sort of online petition.
We are natural loyalists rather than rebels. Let’s channel this anger into something new which really could wrest power from those who have it now.
I can understand the feeling and the impulses. I am some times tempted by UKIP and the minor parties but I think what we need to remember is this:
1) Only a Conservative victory in 2010 is an alternative to a Euro Federalist government in the UK.
2) The economy is sick - very sick. Far worse than the media is letting people know about. Its a national emergency and only one party can stop the haemorrhaging. To weaken that party's electoral chances now would be self destructive.
3) There are alternatives. Facebook and the internet allow for mass campaigns without party permission. Conservative Home has shown this ( though the Ashcroft takeover has to put some doubt into peoples minds there ).
4) The plans annouced by David Cameron are more radical than people intially realise. They set up the UK to split from an ever deepening Union and his negoatiating hand is stronger than the media portrays it. This is why you have French European ministers having a hissing fit on the media yesterday.
5) We could solve some of these problems in a different way. Specially it is time the right started thinking about a written consitution. The left have been planning one for decades and if they see it as a way to force a natural left wing bias into the state ( I'm sure this is the thinking behind the supreme court also ).
Stay and fight !
Andrew - forgive a cross posting of a comment I made elsewhere, but it says what I'd like to say here also:
None of can be sure what David Cameron will be like at PM. That's politics. There's evidence for whatever view you want to take and people tend to project their hopes and fears onto leaders before they are in office in irrational ways.
The UK will be far far better off with a Conservative Govt lead by David Cameron than a Labour one under Brown ( or any of his non entity hangers on ). Any vote that isn't a Conservative vote makes Gordon Brown winning his first contested national election more likely.
This idea of wanting this to get much worse so the revolution will come is the council of despair and is more at home with the Trots and Socialist workers.
Note that Hannan co are staying in the Conservative party to win over its soul. That's what matters.
If the Eurosceptics leave the Conservative party it will have the same impact on us as the moderate Labour wing leaving for the SDP - 10 more years of the opposite party.
The left are desperate for us to fall out amongst ourselves just before victory - its their last chance. That's why Chris Bryant is on TV these days crowing away, rather than now Lady Kinnock.
The lesson from Labour is that it is possible to win over the whole party - but not if you leave.
This should interest you - a hint from Guido about Dan Hannan's plans. http://order-order.com/2009/11/05/dans-new-plan-b/
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