It’s January 2, and today David Cameron kicked-off the Conservative Party’s election campaign. On Monday, the first part of the manifesto will be published and no doubt Labour and the Liberal Democrats will be out of the blocks soon. I suspect the British (unlike the Americans who are used to long election campaigns) will be heartily sick of politics come the general election, whenever that will be.
Cameron’s big announcement was that he would invite the leaders of the other two main parties to sit in a war cabinet on a regular basis. He said this would not be every week, but it shows a Cameron government intends to get a consensus from all the main parties when the lives of our troops are at risk.
This – according to the Conservative Party - is the ‘year for change.’ This puts a positive spin on what will be, economically, a dire year. The country’s finances are in the most parlous state they have ever been in, however, Cameron will be doing all he can to convince voters life will be better under a Conservative government.
Time for change? Time will tell.
To read David Cameron’s full speech, click HERE.
1 comments:
Speaking with a number of Conservatives recently, it's quite obvious we have a dilemma of huge proportions.
The bottom line is that anyone but Labour is better and the Lib Dems cannot be allowed to govern with those policies in place - have you seen their manifesto lately?
The minor parties won't pick up an awful lot and from correspondence I'm getting, there are many disaffected Conservatives like myself.
We should be lightyears ahead and we're not. Why not? I'm not going to answer that here on your blog, Andrew.
So here we all are - quietly knowing we're Tory at heart but at the same time - not able to support the current direction. Whatever do we do next May?
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