Slippery Dave's skids

tygerland Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 12:38:39 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

It was supposed to be the smoothest of the three conferences.  After the nervous Lib Dem opener, to last week's "Big Goodbye," the Tory conference was supposed to be about the unity and ideas of the next British Government.  Day One didn't turn out so well.




David Cameron's speech didn't live up to last year's leadership election winning oratory turn, and was knocked into a tipped hat by Blair's astonishingly well-delivered farewell.  The great pretender fell a little flat desperately demanding that the party "stick to the plan."  Lest the mask will slip, Dave?  

For all the rejuvenated Tory arrogance, their YouGov lead fell away in the latest polls and clear and present divisions marred the conference's opening day.  Arguments over tax-cuts and gaffs over NHS privatisation have spoiled Cameron's party.  The Cameron wagon has hit the skids and the wheels are wobbling.  

We all know that Cameron is repackaged Thatcherism.  He was the architect of Michael Howard's negative dog-whistle manifesto.  His shadow-chancellor is a baby-faced tax-slashing assassin, a fully paid up neocon, and to top it all, was originally named Gideon.  I know it's like the bastard child of Thatcher and Dick Cheney.  

Then there is the bungling Oliver Letwin, who admitted there would be no limits to Tory ambitions to privatise the NHS.  Whaaah?  That's not `on-message' Oli.  You let the mask slip then. They released a denial, but Letwin's on tape.  Shit.  Add into the mix the grassroots rebellion over a refusal to promise tax-cuts and a backlash over Cammy's A-List, and we have a melting pot ready to boil over.  Don't miss it.

Oh, and did I mention the police are quizzing the Tories over the Cash or Peerages scandal?  


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by swatantra on Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 04:07:53 PM GMT

As they say its governments that lose elections, not oppositions winning them. All Dave needs to do is hang around long enough and watch Labour destroy itself through internecine fighting. Hopefully that won't happen, if the usual suspects behave themselves.  Perhaps the possible loss of their comfy seats might at last bring it home to them. We need to publish a list of the most vulnerable seats that could fall to the Tories or Lib Dems. Certainly the newer intake of MPs will be very concerned. But we also need to persuade the 'deadwood' those MP's who have been there donkeys years to step down for younger members.


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