Suppose Labour crash to the worst defeat ever in the Euro elections, led by a Prime Minister who has never been held accountable in the polls. A PM who was soley responsible for the dominant issue, the economic mess. A PM who was never elected by his party.

Now he may have a very flimsy mandate. But it would be necessary that a vote of confidence is held by either his party, parliament or the country, if he looses the Euro elections to a record level. I think that unless his position is actually put to the ltest, as opposed to his party, then he has stepped ouside his constitutional right to govern. I think that a loss is a loss, but a record loss means he will have to face a real vote of confidence. His circumstances are unique, the economic circumstances are unique and his right to govern will be unconstitutional.

I know that most people think that Labour has now lost all hope for the next election – but I think that they are wrong.

There are millions of government employees who will vote Labour, and – just as important – who will use their influence to propagandise on behalf of Labour.

These people nowadays represent a truly mighty, exceedingly well-funded, organised force.

Then, of course, there are all those claiming benefits from the state. They, too, will tend to vote Labour.

So, how on Earth can the Tories ever win when it comes to the next election?

There are millions of people who, at the outset, will be completely set against Tory ideals.

Well, in my view, there is only one hope.

The Tories must take on the state!

The Tories have to *show* the people that the state is not, in fact, their friend.

But the Tories are not doing this. They continue pandering to the notion that the state is ‘good’ for people.

For example, in essence, most of the public believes that “Public spending is good”.

And unless the Tories can reverse this notion – i.e. by showing the people that public spending is *bad* – then how on Earth can the Tories ever win – unless they, too, fall in line with the current ethos, and also proclaim that we need a lot of public spending?

It seems to me that the Tories have to agree that public spending is ‘good’ in order to stand any chance at all at the next election …

… UNLESS, that is, they can convince the public that public spending is bad!

But this is going to require some bravery on behalf of the Tories because, to begin with, the notion that public spending is bad will not go down well with the public.

But, RIGHT NOW, there seems to be a golden window of opportunity to *launch* a full attack on public spending and the size of the state apparatus.

And yet, David Cameron is just not doing this.

In fact, I do not think that David Cameron ever will.

As such, he is really letting the side down, in my view.

Charles

Well, he would be. Bought and paid for by Entrust.

It’s the public sector ethos: “Because I can”. As to the performance bonus, let’s privatize the BBC and then, perhaps, we can better judge its performance, having done so use that knowledge to decide the size of the bonus.

Brown has already put his country before the UK, Scotland of course. Devolution was developed by the EU and the Scottish maffia used that plan to destroy England, in that at least it has been succesful. All socialist parties since the war, WWll that is, have run down the economy and had to be bailed out once by the IMF and again by hard work on the part of the incoming conservative administration. The worry now is that the situation is so much worse than on previous occasions and I do wonder whether Cameron and Osborne have the nous and backbone to do what is clearly essential.

Derek

So these researchers have also found another area in the PFC (the dlPFC) that modulates the vmPFC. There are a couple of things that this research could tell us. First that the Tories should campaign offer the healthy option on the menu. That the Labour party is just cake. Spending spluges taste nice but a nation cannot live off cake indefinately. Tories are not the cake party, but we will never be the nasty party. The Tories are the healthy party. The Labour party are the tasty party, but in the long run they are the nasty, obese party.

Conservaties are the healthy party – especially for those who have poor self control. If the Tories want to win those voters they need to look at what persuades people to change their lifestyle and eat properly. I suppose the 5 a day is the best thing I can think of.

It’s not sustainable for large private companies either as stakeholders and shareholders (that’s private sector pension holders and isa savers, amongst other big individual investors) need a return on their investment of money and time. Goodwin’s pension agreement featured on the BBC website on Friday should be a wakeup call to all shareholders in FTSE 100 companies of where our investment is truly going.

I am not certain that that has quite been conveyed to the voters as yet – anyone who worries about the UK remaining solvent must vote Conservative or Brown will win on the back of people employed by him or subsidized by him to re-elect Labour.

So broadcasting that message might make sense….

Hazel Blears, the cheerleader-in-chief’s response is to complain that ‘the message’ is not getting across. What she fails to understand as you make clear is that the message has indeed got across. What she ought to be doing today is to apologise for it.

The latest is Labour ‘Lord’ Baroness Uddin – who has claimed £100,000 in expenses for her ‘main home’ which was an unfurnished and unoccupied flat in Maidstone. At least, it was unfurnished until the Sunday Times challenged the Baroness. She actually lives only 4 miles from Westminster.

Other notable instances include Admiral Lord West renouncing his skepticism about 42 days, “I am just a simple sailor”, after being called in to meet Mr Brown.

Most recently David Blunkett was reported as having called for the ID scheme to be scrapped. He actually said no such thing, really implying only that it should be aggressively remarketed. However, it appeared as dissent, and the result was a recantatory letter from Mr Blunkett to the Daily Telegraph: “I am entirely committed to the whole programme and, specifically, the database.”

I wonder whether anyone has a definitive list of such redeclarations of faith.