What should Cameron's New Year's resolution be?

Sally Chatterjee

To fight like never before to oppose the misguided policies, methods and beliefs of an increasingly deluded and crazed government.

Anthony

Get back Andy Coulson. I didn't even know he'd gone until I read it here.

frank goddard

We all know that it was the property market that got us into this mess,so let the market get us out!! Do as the Howard goverment in Australia did,instead of giving the money direct(to fund their high bonus's)to the banks, make them work for it by giving first time buyers £5k and a Max loan of 95%,let the banks then claim it back from the goverment.Surely this will get the economy moving quicker than VAT and Bail-out money,!!!

Chris burley

Get brown to admit he screwed up the economy

Trumpeter Lanfried

I resolve to speak for England, not constantly looking over my shoulder to opinion polls in marginal constituencies but boldy setting out the policies I believe in.

mitch

Stop being so bloody nice! if you want the keys to No10 act like you want it.
Gordon didn't get where he is by being nice to his fellow MPs.

Travis Bickle

To not allow a certain Wednesday lunchtime sparring partner to get away with telling so many blatant porkies...

Robert Simpson

To resolve to produce 5 core reasons to vote Conservative which every British voter is familiar with by the next election.

Coeur de Lion

Just stick it to them

Craig Barrett

You have one chance to pick a team for government so make sure it's the right one. Full time and 100% committed - this is not a time to look after friends, this is about winning.

Show some hunger for power.

teledu

Something radical (for either of the two main parties), commit to introducing Proportional Representation.

Pete, Scotland

Do a better job of opposing the Government and highlighting it's faillings.

drakes drum

To get people around me in whom the majority of conservative voters can believe in!

To discover a common touch.

To ask Mr Clegg to amalgamate with us!

To send Mr Brown four white feathers!

To send George Osborne to acting school.

RODEST

In 2009 the Conservatives will rewind Labour spin and start to rebuild the country by mending society, encouraging family values that will prepare children for a better future than they have at present and establish sound economic policies and controls that will protect this country.

luke

I will not underestimate either Brown or the challenge that remains to change forever the tory party. Either could yet finish my political career before it has really started.

Dan

(1) Add some gravitas to his shadow cabinet.

(2) Stop being so soft and take the fight to the Campbell/Brown/Mandelson axis of spin.

Austin Barry

I will not be conciliatory. I will not equivocate. I will attack Brown and his dismal failed policies on every conceivable occasion. At every opportunity I will haul Brown's miserable carcass onto the gibbet of this mess he has created. I will demand that the electorate greet this loathsome failure of a politician with howls of execration. I will strive to illuminate conservatism as a message of hope for all. I will, above everything, strip this man and his miserable cadre of fools of the power and trust they have abused.

grumpy old man

Dc's resolution should be "to let the Truth set us free".

JohnAnt

Meaner, leaner, tougher, braver, ruder: every day and in every way.

Martin Alexander

''I resolve to be truthful to the British people in every thing I do and say''.......That would get my vote.

Max Kaye

1. Ask the same question(s) repeatedly at PMQs until a real, substantive answer is given.

2. Don't let any lies and 'Brownies' go unchallenged.

3. Keep pressing for a General Election at every opportunity. Brown is terrified at the thought of going to the people - and it's virtually a fact that he will never be elected by the British people.

AlanofEngland

In the name of democracy, allow the people of this land at least ONE occasion to decide their own future. His resolution should be to renounce the EU and PROMISE an in/out referendum forthwith.

Paul Lettan

Develop a MacMillan style public house-building programme, emphasis on energy efficiency, for the 2010s. Aim 2 million new homes by 2020. Allow local authorities to own freehold and provide low cost mortgages for 99 year leases. Set up local authority run credit unions to manage mortgages. Use Quebec's Caisse Populaire Desjardins as model for credit unions.

TrevorsDen

Don't listen to Peter Hoskin

Jonathan

Simple - to appoint Ken Clarke to Shadow Chancellor and Osborne to party chairman (with an explicit mandate to run the general election campaign that is, basically, already underway). Despite all Osborne's good work, he is not resonating with the public on the economy and has been seen to be bested by Mandelson. Clarke has the charisma and credibility to shred Darling and Brown on the economy, which is their only halfway decent card. Countering the bogus Labour narrative on the economy is, therefore, the key to getting Labour out at the next election. The euro issue is easy to deal with - the line can be that given how Brown and Labour have broken Britain's economy, we are a decade away from being close to meeting membership criteria, so debating the merits of euro membership is in practice pointless.

Hysteria

sheesh - where to start ...?

how about - "I will develop a few simple messages that will explain both my world view and why people should trust me to lead the country"

(in my view these should be inextrcably linked...)

Sterence

Resolution is the word. Be resolute: fight the Mandelsonian fire with fire. Stand up for the individual against crushing statism. We need you.

raj

Working for Happiness of all

Dr Blue

1. Expose to beyond any shadow of a doubt Labour's combination of incompetence, arrogance and mendacity in every sector of politics.

2. Give people a positive reason to believe the Tories will do better.

3. Cut back the wastage in the public sector. At least 20% of current government spending is waste. The government employs some people in public sector to do real jobs- doctors, soldiers, teachers etc and then a useless army of people to get in the way of the workers doing their jobs. Labour has a total command and control mentality and so employs supervisors of supervisors. The result is ever more bean counting and ever less less real work done. John Seddon describes the phenomenon well in Systems Thinking in the Public Sector.

Ray

Every time I stand up in the Commons I recall to mind what another five years of Gordon Brown would do to the Britain I love.

Thus I will goad my Shadow team into throwing their whole passion into everything they say and do in order to prevent this nightmare coming to pass.

John Littlerichard

Give up chocolate.

The chubby little monkey.

wight tory

Do a PMQ's "Adverse Calander" Number the Brownies being told/has been told, do five a week and ensure that in the following week it carries on from the previous weeks total. Then finish with the phrase "and on that note, doesn't the PM agree that Britian's people deserve better than what's been delivered over the past decade"

Everard Digby

Strengthen the Shadow Cabinet. For a start get rid of George Osborne who has shown a lack of judgement and is unable to land killer blows on Brown and Darling.

If Cameron is serious about being PM he needs to ditch his friends who are a liability

Dalesman

Bring back David Davis, and get Gordon Brown to answer a question.

James

Er - become a Tory, maybe?

Harry

Find a way of communicating directly with people, avoiding the poisonous biased broadcast media who are now the mouthpiece for Labour. Get out into cities and towns, talk to people, find out what the people really think, and want. Then shout it from the rooftops, in the street. You have to find a way of defeating the biased media.

William Norton

Ignore any newspaper or on-line list of suggestions for your New Year's resolutions.

The last of the red hot taxpayers

He has got to get tougher. We cannot go on bailing out anyone who has a sob story / has donated to the Labour Party. Some businesses are going to fail, but that is not a failure of Capitalism, it is bad managers being held accountable (unlike politicians who only get held to account once every five years). National Express offering £5 coach trips to Leeds from London? What sort of business plan is that?

Tell it like it is and stop trying to tell people only the nice things. The public are grown up enough to hear some cold, hard truths.

MartSharm

Ignore Brown. Dismiss him as a vacuous, narcissistic puppet with an empty head, whose only talent is spending other people's money.

Set the attack dogs on the REAL deal - Mandelson and Campbell. They are the ones pulling Brown's strings, and they are loathed by the public, their unelected status a clear demonstration of the moral vacuum and disregard for parliamentary democracy at the heart of the Labour party.

Ian C

Vow to send your front bench on a 'how to win friends and influence people' course. Sack any one who does not get the point of it.

Gordsdaysrnumberd

Bring Kenneth Clarke back into the Cabinet as a shadow for Peter Mandelson. He is a big Tory beast who is admired by most voters and can do untold damage to the Government if let off his leash.

Dan

The statist leaning media is DC's big problem. It isn't listening to him. so:

1) Make the BBC's clear bias obvious by committing to getting rid of the licence fee.

2) Brush down John Major's soapbox and get out there.!

stepney

Sharpen the message of hope.

Expose Labour's lies.

Dominate the airwaves with big hitters.

Find a Robin Cook to harry the liars opposite constantly. Find a Campbell to dominate the news channels and (God forgive me), find a Mandelson to poison the opposition.

Onyerbike

Convince the British public that they cannot continue on this road to ruin. Encourage them to discover the Great British tradition of innovation and hard work instead of expecting to continue lounging in this cushy socialist non-productive world which will bankrupt their children.

Kev G

John L - Agreed. While I hope most of us rate acts over words and maybe words over appearances, those jowls do not help and come up through the school of hard knocks he has not, more's the pity.

Myism

Project real gravitas and overturn Obama's perception of me as a "lightweight"...

deirdre thompson

bring back David Davies

Ben Elford

Ditch the 'green' agenda as impossible to believe in at the best of times, unaffordable in the coming worst of times.

Now that would take some resolution.

Christopher Bowring

To take a long, hard look at the pseudo-science behind the current global warming hysteria and to conclude that reducing C02 emissions is an expensive and pointless activity.

True Bred Pomponian

Have a re-union of the Bullingdon Club, in full kit, to be photographed by all the media. At least it would be better than last year's efforts.

Arthur

Stop wearing white shirts all the time - it makes him look like a follower of Scientology.

El Sid

"I resolve not to be a fluffy vacuum where an Opposition should be."

Give people a reason to vote for you - come up with ideas and commmunicate them effectively (which has proved strangely difficult for a PR man). Don't rely on Labour just screwing things up - but at the same time do a better job of communicating to the electorate a sense of the scale of Labour's failure.

Look like a government in waiting. Put the country before personal feelings. Recognise that Osborne has single-handedly cost you 20 points in the polls not because of the yacht thing, but through his ineffective opposition, the "another Etonian" thing, and lack of understanding of financial matters - and get him away from public view. Give him the election to organise, whatever his title, with the promise of a juicy job after the election - the country and party come first for now. By the same token, give Davis his old job back - the attack has to come on all fronts. And find an attack dog from somewhere.

Looking for specific policies? See the comments in this post from Sunday : http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3086766/if-taxpayers-cash-is-to-be-spent-in-clunking-fistfuls-what-should-it-be-spent-on.thtml Things like Government-sponsored environmental remediation, improvements to energy efficiency and investment in electricity transmission infrastructure could all fit the greenwash agenda, while providing a more effective economic stimulus than subsidising Indian 4x4 makers.

Bribing civil servants to give up their pensions may not be one for the manifesto though... :-)

DM

Attack, attack, attack at every opportunity. People like you (for the most part - you've cracked that bit), now they need to respect you.

Verity

Ken Clarke to Shadow Chancellor and Eric Pickles to party Chairman. Bring back David Davis. Dump the condescending, arrogant Theresa May. Give John Redwood a high profile spot. Cameron's not that bright. He needs all the mental wattage he can get surrounding him. Get rid of some of those OEs. There's an unpleasant air of elitism about Cameron's team. Not one of them has served in the Armed Forces. Bring back Patrick Mercer. The public admires military men and they have a huge natural constituency in the Armed Forces themselves and in all their families.

Stop shoving his family in our faces. (The notion that a photo of him and his family walking down an ordinary street on an ordinary day would make a good Christmas card is just too bizarre.)

praguetory

If we can persuade voters that you can rebuild a society that rewards people who work hard and play by the rules, the Tories will wipe the floor with Labour at the next election.

So my NY resolution if I were Cameron would be to make a conscious effort to speak up and stand up for the little man.

TGF UKIP

Renounce political correctness, green obsessiveness, The Shaven Headed One (which may very well be a duplication of the first two) and social democracy and resolve to become a conservative.

(Is it correct that his Christmas card is, a la Blair, a picture of him and his family? If so how absolutely vain and nauseating and the man is beyond redemtion)

Cogito Ergosum

Buy a better horse for Tamzin.

Puncheon

Just start bare knuckling. These OE's think all they have to do is ask nicely and smile politely and they can have whatever they want. Well the ruffians have taken over the mansion and they won't move out until they are kicked hard. You will have to grab them by the scruff of the neck and throw them out, smashing their heads against the door post on the way.

Jed Yoong

Don't turn into a Tory Blair!
Looks that way!
Labour has turned conservative with Brown while the conservatives are now hip with Cameron?
Stay away from the Blair GRIN!

DIS WISS

This failed government have completely LOST THE PLOT on
THE ECONOMY
EDUCATION
CRIME
IMMIGRATION
THE WELFARE STATE
DECENCY
HONESTY
PRINCIPLES
RESPECT
EVERYTHING

Verity

Dis Wiss - This government has not lost the plot on immigration. They have always used mass immigration and the elevation of Stone Agers above the indigenes as a weapon against the British.

It is one thing that Labour has done that worked as planned. The demoralisation of the owners of the country.

The other is the wrecking of our former legal system, whereby people got punished or rape, paedeophilia and murder.

Mark Cleary

Campaign against the BBC licence fee.

Christopher Burley

Create a british pension fund created and controlled by the government by asking people to pay extra tax. Use the money to fund public housing works and to pay off our national debt. Secondly, cut public expenditure by 100bn, but give 10bn to our armed forces which Labour have destroyed over the last decade.

Nick Black

Resolve to:

-Get Gordon Brown to give us that election the country deserves.

-Win it and give this country the government we so sorely need.

dave, surrey

have your head shaved and miss a few meals.. look lean, hungry and mean.

More importantly get the BBC to recognize Gordon brown for what he is: not so much an economic genius but more an economic coco the clown who's led the country to near bankruptcy with record levels of debt and government borrowing.

Philip Brooker

To raise the profile of ex-cabinet Heavyweights; Clarke, Redwood, Davis; clearly set out what the next Conservative Government would do (spin-free please), and start to look like a Government in waiting.

Herbert Thornton

Make sure that I always have, within easy reach, a warm, dry towel.

chris

Grumpy Old man is 100% CORRECT.
Just tell the truth, all the time.

Fergus Pickering

Proportional Representation? Anf give the leggover a cabinet seat. You must be joking. PR gives power to liberal wankers or extremist nuts. Don't listen to the berks on blogs like this. Just be the charming fellow you are.