A New Year's resolution for David Cameron

William Church

Very eloquent. Could Mr Hoskin please put this suggestion to Mr Cameron in person and quote his reply on the website.

Obnoxio The Clown

1. We're not Labour.
2. We're not Labour.
3. We're not Labour.
4. We're not Labour.
5. We're not Labour.

Verity

Very astute. He deserves the bubbly.

Paul Hampson

They ought to be! This Soft on crime, Politically correct, health and safety obsessed, state controlled communist Government ought to give anyone a sense to vote Conservative at the next election. Give the guy a break! Socialism is being kicked out throughout the world. See France, New Zealand et al. See GB at the next election. Problem is, people become brain washed very easily.

TGF UKIP

That should cause some confusion and, if Mr Church does get his reply, it should add considerably to the gaiety of the season.

Susan Hill

Well I can`t think of five reasons. Or four. Or three.. Or....

toni

Didn't Labour do that in 97?

Verity

Susan Hill - the wisdom and brevity of Robert Simpson's winning idea aside, I am with you. I cannot think of a single reason to vote Conservative because I have absolutely no idea what they stand for.

TGF UKIP

C'mon Pete! You like your challenges/competitions and there's at leat two more here.

1) What do Coffee Houser's think the five core reasons should be? and

2) What do Coffee Housers think Dave's five core reasons will be?

Susan Hill

Verity.. I know what they USED to stand for. But none of that seems to interest Cameron

Verity

Susan Hill - Precisely.

Tiberius

Susan Hill: in the 11 years before Cameron became leader, the Tories stood for a lot of things that you or even Verity might have liked, but which millions of voters, er, didn't.

Now a majority of those millions poll that they might vote Conservative come the GE. Wasn't that kinda the whole point of Cameron becoming leader?

Verity

Tiberius - Millions of voters, er, were taken in by scuzzbag Tony Blair's showy presentation. Millions of voters, er, despite the evidence of their own circumstances, voted for Blair a second time. Millions of voters, er, although in ever-decreasing numbers, voted for the monstrous, lying, destructive Blair a third time. Millions of voters, er, laughed William Hague, a clever, competent and articulate man, out of the Leader of the Opposition's office because Lord Rio of Rumba, then simply known as Peter Swivel Hips, savaged him.

I'll tell you something else: if Tony Blair were standing in the next election, they would vote for him again despite what he and his slithy toves have done to the economy, our civil society, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

The left is the most vicious, vindictive and destructive government this country has ever known, but millions of voters, er, are stupid enough to be swayed by presentation over substance and ignore the evidence of their own eyes. Millions of voters, er, don't know their arse from a hole in the ground.

Now that they are having their savings, their pensions, their homes and their incomes savaged they may be coming to. I wouldn't count on it, though. It will take great guile and determination and a very strong leader with a vision that he can articulate forcefully to win the next election. He's got to be able to understand, and feel, the average person's circumstances.

David Cameron, whose first act as Leader, was to jump on the "global warming" bandwagon, now officially discredited, is not that man.

oldtimer

Those who say above that they cannot think of any reasons to vote Conservative have not been paying attention to the groundwork already put in place by Cameron. It certainly has not been encapsulated into five memorable soundbites; but that should not be too difficult to do when the time comes to do it.

strapworld

Sounds too much like Prescott's little pledge card!!

Gordon Musgo

My five...
Smaller government
Personal responsibility
Repeal of all repressive laws and regs from last 11 years
Referendum on EU, after comprehensive cost/benefit and constitutional implications report.
That's only four, but enough. Maybe no 5 would be distribute the bank shares we all bought?

Verity

"Repeal of all repressive laws and regs from last 11 years."

Think of the fresh air!

Thought fascism down the pan at a single stroke of the pen. We'd need a Conservative leader with the will and the steady nerve to do it, so not Dave, then.

Teachers allowed to teach. Children allowed to call one another names. Schools allowed to expel troublemakers. No help wanted ads reading "Open to all, although X group is currently underrepresented". (While we're at it, we could make being a "Diversity Officer" a public offence.) Blunkett's pretend bobbies could go in the trash at the same time. Blunkett's Binned Bobbies.