In response to a post of mine yesterday, James Higham at Nourishing Obscurity has written this post:

Certainly yes on Boris for London, but Cameron is the Leader of the Conservative Party, and should stay in that position. During the leadership election, I voted for David Davis, but since two thirds of the members disagreed and preferred David Cameron he is, and should be, leader.

The leader of the party deserves loyalty as a whole. It is fine - and beneficial - to disagree on bits and pieces, such as on particular policies, over political strategies etc. But by in-fighting we harm no-one but ourselves. We all have the same very basic core beliefs and ideas - that is why we are all members of the Conservative Party. There are always going to be differences of opinion within large political parties. It comes from the nature of having lots of opinionated people together. To win, and to be able to enact them, we have to cast aside, or at least not shout about, our differences but stress the things we do agree on and work together to achieve them.

I think Cameron's not doing a bad job overall. He's done good things and bad things, but he is currently still in the positive by my point scoring. No matter what, he is the leader, and deserves the support of all Conservatives. We could in-fight and end up with another four years of Labour (mis)government, or we can pull together properly and have a Conservative one. No matter what anyone can claim about "Cameron not being much better than Blair" or any other such crap, he is and will be a better PM than Brown.

David Cameron is the leader we have. He was elected by the members by a comfortable margin. Whether or not you supported him, we must get behind him now. The choice is simple - unite and have a strong fighting chance of ousting Labour and re-establishing good government in Britain, or fighting within and suffering a deserving defeat. Unite and win, in-fight and die.