Cameron needs to avoid being a one-idea pony

TGF UKIP

WOW! Not often I get served up so much ammunition all in one go.

The huge problem is, though, Mary, for not just the Tory Party but for poor old Britain too, is that the Dave you got today is the real Dave and the only Dave - a vacuous, lightweight, highly skilled greasy poll climber.

When he had finished with what Gove had fed him, all he had left is what The Shaven Headed One had instilled in him "Look good, sound nice, rely on Gordon, hope for the best and for God's sake don't frighten the horses."

But that's why Tiberius loves him so.

Verity

Well, TGI UKIP beat me to it! Drat!

Praguetory

A sincere request - can we get through any article without Obama being raised?

J H Holloway

Cameron clearly has 17 months left. That should be 17 months to nail everything down and come out with an answer for everything.

The Tories have very little to do in the meantime. Each shadow minister has to become and expert in their own area.

If they can't get on with it, I might have to sit down and type up some policies myself.

Susan Hill

Praguetory... If we can`t then I am quitting Coffee House and the Spectator for good. I already despair of being able to watch any news broadcast on any channel on my TV without its being all about The One, with everything else re the entire world, let alone Great Britain, squeezed into the last 3 minutes.
Let us have no more of the O word unless we have that pretty stars and stripes pattern round the heading, just so I can click away.
But just before we go, there is an excellent take on O`s clever conniving plans to make the USA an entirely Socialist country. It is on Dick Morris`s latest, if you don`t subscribe and you want the truth about The One, you need to. dickmorris.com will get you there, then subscribe. The latest sense is headed Obama`s Trojan Horse. If I were an American I`d be terrified.
And now it`s goodnight from me and...

wonderfulforhisage

Redwood seems to know what he's blogging about.

Forlornehope

If the Tories intend to fix taxation, government finance, welfare dependency, saving and pensions, they are going to have to fundamentally address all these issues together. That will inevitably create losers as well as winners. The whole system is a mess and needs to be fixed but there is no political mileage in shouting about it now. I only hope that they have a real plan and the guts to sort out the mess. If it ends up with my personal taxes going up a bit to get a better system, I actually think that would be fair enough, but not too much mind!

TGF UKIP

Verity, I'm afraid you may well have to review your opinion of our mutual friend Dave.

I am sure you will view him in an altogether different light (perhaps an even softer and more pastel one) when I tell you that in a trailer on the Today Programme for Womans Hour, it was revealed that not only your other hero The Sainted Obama, but Dave too, considered themselves to be feminists.

There I knew that would make you change your mind!

Nicholas

Is it really 17 months? What a depressing thought. At the moment even Cameron's policy-lite alternative looks a rosy alternative to the ghastly reality of Brown even if he has not yet twigged or exploited our yearning for a real deliverer. I suppose there is only a very slim chance we might be liberated by a foreign power between now and Brown's Götterdämerung bunker moment. Unfortunately no Lysanders in moonlit fields to bring us hope and succour as we continue to suffer under the yoke of the fascist oppressor.

Despite my determination to avoid the party political broadcast arm of New Labour I caught a bit of Newsnight last night. Even the current chaos was being debated by wall to wall Labour (that ghastly John McFall) with not a Tory voice to be heard. For someone with a supposedly PR background the Cameron Tories profile is so low it is positively subterranean.

Obnoxio The Clown

Wow. The Speccie finally realises that Dave is another Blairobama: a presentable but vacuous and unprincipled cipher.

Well done.

Hysteria verging on Despair

Well I was going to post on behalf of TGF and Verity and save some bandwidth - and dagumit they are correct -

Did you catch Ian Martin's piece on the hard truths and what we need to do ?

None of the main stream have an articulate vision, or set of policies that are in any way fit for a new reality....

I am going to change my name from Hysteria to Despair....

TrevorsDen

So thats it then - the Tories need to come up with concrete policies on everything.

Just like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did then? How lucky we were to have all those carefully thought out policies which have given us such wonderful economic housing policing educational and social policies. And thats not even mentioning immigration and benefits.

Yep smack you bum Mr Cameron you will never be as clever as Gordon Brown.

Who is this Mary Wakefield anyway?

Verity

TGF UKIP - Derangement lies this way.

Hysteria - don't change your name just when we'd got our mental systems calibrated.

The Tories under Cameron are a shambles. Open goal after open goal. No programmes except those intelligent ones for education from Gove. Otherwise, Cameron's Tory policies are a dog's breakfast. And, by the way, the Leader of the Opposition's wife should not be in business and benefitting from the high profile.

Climate change (which has happened for 100 million years and one has little faith that Dave and Zac can alter); hoodies; grafitti; A-List ...

Hopeless. (And please, no more photos of Dave and his family in their kitchen, in their living room, walking down the street. David Cameron is constantly molesting me with his life.)

seb

What would motivate any opposition leader to tell the public, prior to a general election, that the solution to the mess created by the incumbent lunocracy could be costly and painful for many of them? The desire to lose, thereby allowing the criminals in charge to inflict more horror on the nation?
I think most voters can cope with the idea that our schools are largely social clubs for mongs and could do with improvement. Squaring up to a rapid shrinking of the public sector and to tax increases is perhaps a challenge best faced by voters the day after The Moron is deported to The Kirkcaldy Home for the Insane.

Tiberius

Mary, you really must stop throwing the red meat to the pack! There clearly was a lot of indigestion yesterday evening.

And such mal d'estomac clearly blurs the fact that Cameron, the Party leader charged with the responsibility of saving the country from socialist oblivion, is gaining polling to achieve that precise aim.

On education specifically, it stands out from the crowd because it's one policy Labour hasn't stolen, and isn't one that haunts the Tories (like spending cuts and the NHS) as a result of past prejudices against the party.

John Page

Wrong target, Mary. Could it just be because DC runs away from having policies?! The leader has just reshuffled his shadow cabinet. How many policymakers has he put in key posts?

oldtimer

TrevorsDen asks:
"Who is this Mary Wakefield anyway?"

I assume it is one of the regulars in drag.

BrianSJ

I thought Demos was broke.
This Progressive Conservatism sounds like opportunism of a very low order, which seems to be pretty much par for the course with Demos.

Tim Carpenter LPUK

Grief. "progressive". What a word. Utter newspeak. As odious and disingenuous as the term "deprived".

FF

As far as I can tell, the Conservatives' education policy is the same as Labour's, except they want apprenticeships to be outside the education system and they want to centralise funding away from Local Authorities.

For everything else, the language is nearly identical.