Just stop picking – and, while you’re about it, stop being so facetious.

It could also be fighting the last battle, rather than the next.

What was needed was the public to understand our general philosophy and critic of Labour’s economic failures – espeically predictions born out.

To be most effective those criticisms need to be made ‘before’ major events, not afterwards.

Lets be straight – we are now proposing tax cuts as we don’t want to be the last party in the UK not to be doing so.

As people become more frightened and disillusioned they will look for those who have been standing firm to their principles to guide them.

That should have been us.

The danger is that the electorate conclude – “they are all the same”, which is what playing the games of messrs Drapper, Campbell and Mandelson will communicate.

The thing is, Mervyn King, Trieche and Ben Bernanke knew what was about to happen and they continued increasing interest rates. They knew that increasing rates would cause millions more people to lose their homes.. yet they carried on.

When Northern Rock was hit, King should have immediately cut interest rates by at least 1%. Instead, he sat and watched a total train smash of our Banking System, our investments and Pensions. The fact that he has now dropped rates by 2% in the past few weeks has confirmed he was totally wrong.

Mr Orsborne was slagging Labour off making a political point that Labour will try to get King to reduce rates… When a cut in interest rates is what Osborne should have been asking for.

The Tories need to find a more qualified shadow chancellor that offers the solutions to the crisis. Not cheap political slander. As Obama / McCain have shown, petty political posturing does nobody any good.

Please!
Listen Ear!

John, Thank you for providing this forum to convey our concerns to the party.

I have more experience in economics than he does and i wouldnt feel ready to be chancellor. I bet he doesnt.

You could argue why its absurd.

That’s how its done !

It was one of the most effective performances on BBC TV from any Conservative politician I can remember in the last few years.

Labour and the BBC attack George Osborne because of that photo from his University days that allow them to go for Cameron on the class issue, not because Conservative economic policy is brilliant.

George Osborne is a good man and a great asset. But sometimes you need to rotate your assets.

We certainly don’t want the case as with Labour under Blair where the Chancellor becomes impossible to rotate.

It is also the case that the Conservative message is not getting across right now. If we don’t win and prevent Brown’s linguistic programming of the electorate about “global” factors then it could mean 5 more years of Labour government.

Since Churchill was brought up he was willing to remove good men as commanders to replace them with those who deliver victory. The cause is greater than any one man.

Naturally, if Osborne manages to do this, then I will forgive him almost anything. But speeches made to small, select audiences, no matter how good, reasoned or incisive they may be, are not going to win the next election. The message has to be got accross to the masses. And that means the constant repetition of straightforward, honest and clear messages put across with passion, even anger.

The job of the opposition is to oppose. That has never been more true than now.

A certain Winston Churchill doubt holidayed with some wealthy people. Big Deal.

‘The’ story is the stupidity of the media and their failure to expose Mandelson’s sleazy connections.

I hope people take note!!

Why do so many, otherwise probably intelligent people, allow themselves to be manipulated by a biased government subsidised organisation and labour political activists?

According to his wiki he got a history degree from Oxford then go his first job in data entry. If that isnt a sign of lack of self confidence, what is?
So that would explain why he is a no show when an important debate is going on over Britains economic future.
Also his Blairite tendancy means he would rather wine and dine with the power elite.

Do you mean the inheritance tax farce? Where he offered to tax rich foreigners so he could abolish inheritance tax, a tax any Tory ought be proud to say ‘I would abolish it just because it is wrong!’ No, we got the same old socialist wealth redistribution that the Labour party offer.

The fact is, there are not enough Tories in the Tory party.

However ….

We are not even seen to be throwing punches right now – let alone making them count in the battle on the Economy.

I realise how unjust that may seem to those in the know fustrated by the media refusing to publicise speeches, but inviting Vince Cable on TV every 6 hours.

Its possible George should play a different role. Cameron is due a reshuffle. It would be embarrassing for a day, but then it would be yesterdays news.

The problem is that Gordon Brown is making the running on his attempts to ‘globalise’ the blame and make himself look good. We need someone to stop him in his tracks and pin the shameful blame that is his failure to him. The stakes are frighteningly high – victory at the next general election is even now in the balance.

All i have seem in the media for months if not years now is socialism.