Reply: Yes, of course the PM wants the Conservatives to spend too much too soon and to rush out policy statements. It’s a win win for him as he sees it - he wins if he wrong foots his opponents but does not have an election, and he hopes it’s a win if he moves the opinion polls so far in his favour that he thinks he can get away with an election. But it becomes a lose/lose if either he goes to the country and ends up losing the majority (the last ten weeks have shown huge volatility in opinion) or if he does not go the country and people become critical of the way he has played politics with the power to decide on election timing.

Reply: I heard David Cameron speak at a dinner last night where he pledged a referendum on the Constitutional Treaty, lower taxes over the first Conservative led Parliament, deregulation and more accountable less bureaucratic local policing. That sounded fine to me. Conservative MPs do not normally criticise the Leader because we wish our side to win to start to put right some of the wrongs in this country. Criticising the Leadership in public just makes it less likely we will win.

We find ourselves in a strange political situation. In England the local government map is pretty much blue, 26% votes cast in favour of Labour in the May 2007 elections. Labour has lost Scotland to the SNP/Lib Dem coalition. Labour only has direct local control in Wales, traditional Labour heartlands and loony-left inner-city boroughs. All of these have their gripes with the war-mongering, big-business friendly new-Labour party too.

Labour’s solution? More legislation, more bureaucracy, more quangos. Replace the embarrassing unelected regional assemblies with unelected, but much more popular, regional development agencies that people are used to, and, more importantly, associate with more jobs, not more politicans and taxation.

Divert attention from the constitutional vandalism taking place over the

Unless The Sun’s campaign is successful we will, no doubt, soon relinquish even more powers to the nascent European Superstate. Even if The Sun wins this time round, the treaty/constitution issue won’t go away. Ultimately I fully expect Brown to fudge and lie his way into eventually signing the damn thing.

This ‘contemporary resolutions’ vote is just further proof that silencing the opposition is a lot easier than winning the argument; I suppose we should expect no less from the leader of ZaNu-Labour.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7010233.stm

Yes John, it is no wonder that people are totally fed up with politicians….

See this to find out why…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEKTD8ECiI

1. Politicians are scum and only interested in their own fortunes
2. Politicians are so divorced from the ‘Clapham Omnibus’ that they honestly have no conception what most people think
3. Voters are stupid and don’t vote they way they think or are too inherently tribalistic to countenance voting for the ‘other side’ even if the other side is offering policies more in line with their own views
4. Politicians actually have so little power that voting for Tweedledum or Tweedledee will not change much - esp when 75% of our law comes out of Brussels.

Or maybe a challenge to you John: If what you say is true why doesn’t Cameron offer something concrete on school vouchers, public funding of private health care provision, quango wipe-out, police paperwork wipe-out, tax reductions, limiting immigration via rules based on the value an applicant brings to the UK, an English Parliament, a vote on continued membership of the EU, the death penalty, restoring cabinet government, the huge disparity between risk and reward of careers in the public vs private sectors, the BBC, etc, etc. There’s so much wrong with our country that people do feel strongly about that is entirely absent from the political agenda.

Maybe it’s just less difficult to copy Labour spending plans for 3 years and tax the parking spaces at Tescos instead! In the long run we’re all dead after all. Why bother trying to make the UK a better place?

Reply: I do want to offer the public something better and different - as I recorded in my recent Policy Review. We need to see which proposals the Conservatives are going to adopt. They party is signed up to a referendum on the Constitutional Treaty, to controlled immigration, to better policing, to cancelling ID cards and sweeping aside regional assemblies and bureaucracy already, which is a start. It is not going to sign up to taxing people to go to Tescos!

He is a control freak, just like Blair.