Why oh why do some members of the party think that it is a good idea to start in-fighting? It doesn't help anyone except the Labour Party. Michael Ancram is attacking Cameron for "trashing" it's Thatcherite past, and writes a column in the Telegraph under the title "Tories must not be ashamed of their history". Of course we shouldn't. I don't think anyone has ever said that we are, or should be. But neither does that mean that we should copy it now. Every era has it's own politics. Thatcher and her policies were right for her time. But that time ended probably about two decades ago. Not along after I was born, in fact. Iain Dale writes:
Politicians like Ancram have had their day. They should leave it to those who have a future ahead of them to plot the party's future.
That they should. Ancram, and other political dinosaurs like him, should exit stage left. They are stuck in the rut of politics of the past. They don't understand the political realities of modern Britain.On this topic, I agree completely with Dizzy and Caroline Hunt, who writes:
Do you know I think there is something inherently wrong with a large number of party members - they've got so stuck in their Daily Mail reading, complaining about how everything was better in their day ways that they actually cannot get it round their thick heads that their may actually be some thing good, worth supporting, like oh I don't know - the political party that represents their sodding political views!!
No they'd much rather sit in their armchairs and complain that things were much better under Thatcher and clearly the solution to that is to let Gordon Brown have an easy ride and keep Labour in power for another four years. Fuck the fact that Labour have eroded civil liberties, taxed businesses out of the country and passed more sloppy pointless legislation than any executive in this country since Oliver fucking Cromwell.
This sort of in-fighting and semi-defections doesn't help the Conservative Party at all in actuallyNo they'd much rather sit in their armchairs and complain that things were much better under Thatcher and clearly the solution to that is to let Gordon Brown have an easy ride and keep Labour in power for another four years. Fuck the fact that Labour have eroded civil liberties, taxed businesses out of the country and passed more sloppy pointless legislation than any executive in this country since Oliver fucking Cromwell.
doing the job we want them to.
As I wrote before, 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.
The political dinosaurs need to be asked some very simple questions, with yes or no answers:
Do you support the Conservative Party? Yes/NoIf they answer yes to both of the questions above, then this is what they should do: Put a sock in it. Support David Cameron and the Shadow Cabinet in what they do and say. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
Do you want the Conservative Party to win the next general election? Yes/No
Sources: The Telegraph, BBC
