Win one for the Gipper

denis cooper

I suppose you know what a bellwether is.

cityboozer

"To work though, such right-hailing, middle-grabbing politics need to be formulated by sensible-looking, human-sounding people. People who don't look like they would foam at the mouth. People who disagree with their opponents but who do not hate them or wish them ill. People like David Cameron."

So why have the Browns and Ballses got away with it for so long? Is it just double standards in the media or something else?

General Zod

I predict you will enrage the resident foaming mouth brigade by this post, Daniel.

Ferdinand

More weirdness for the Sorosian think-tank world. Why should UK politics be conducted for the benefit of American "centrists" (the type of people who support mass immigration, "colour revolutions" and other things of which George Soros approves)?

Right On

I doubt a Cameron victory will make a dramatic change in Republican strategy. The biggest impact will be whether some more moderate voices are able to become prominent without alienating the base.

The way Marco Rubio has hammered Charlie Crist suggests that the GOP are not even close to thinking about moderate leadership - which won't be a bad thing if they can form a coherent narrative and promote strong leaders (Rubio, Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Gresham Barrett if he wins the Governorship in South Carolina, John Thune, Rob Portman if he wins in Ohio are just a few).

They need to distance themselves from the big government era of Bush and re-establsih themselves as the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.

Nothing that happens on May 6th will change that.

Verity

Is Daniel Korski really suggesting that the American Republicans look to the British "Conservatives" (soi-meme) for guidance? If so, this is one of his sillier flights of fancy.

HairyNoddy

The success of the Cameronians is down to the success of Labour. Labour conned the country into believing their lies whilst simultaneously bankrupting it and plotting against it (mass immigration and transfer of power to the EU).

Cameron failed to attack Labour and failed to draw our attention to their many failings. For this failure to provide effective opposition, he deserves some of the blame for the country's current situation. Far from attacking Labour he seems to want to re model the Conservatives along leftist liberal lines, and has alienated large numbers of the Conservative party faithful in doing so.

I think that any foreign right wing opposition should learn from Cameron's mistakes: stay united, stay true to their traditional values and keep drawing public attention to the failings of the left wing government.

paulg

I thought you said you were off to some big conferences: NATO, E.U etc; don't tell us your invite never turned up!

Wight Tory

You could go with the fact that under the left's guise, this country is in a mess, when in truth they had a blank canvas to work with. Left, right, middle or extremes either way isn't the whole pictures is it? Somebodies wrong in another's correct, and that's what's being voted upon. Its who is trusted to do the correct thing with the mess we have.

Labour will say, they are like the man at the telephone junction, wires everywhere and its them who knows what goes where...The Tories will say look at the mess, are you sure you know what your doing? Leave it alone before you mess it up some more... The crowd looking in have to decide who do the believe?

This situation is unique, one choice to decide, the selected will do their thing and the rejected will say its wrong, even though the country said they were on May 6th.

Cameron really needs this VAT thing to blow up in Browns face, Hammond needs to visit the Civil Servants who are dissecting the books and show them, then get them on side by stating the Conservatives are right. Do that and the country will have clarity, the Labour ace has been trumped and the waste issue will cement the vote. America and the rest of the world might broadly follow this election as a guide to future tactics, but as a choice, the UK public just want somebody to believe in...

Dave B

I think you'll find that most of the 'Cameron' platform, was instigated by IDS.

perdix

If Cameron fails on May 6 it will be down to the distortions in the British electoral system.The comparison with the USA is naive.

Holly ......

Sad sad news about Malcolm McClaren.
I loved his contribution to my memories,
through his music.

Will J

That picture is quite an unfortunate shot: "Con".

Frank P

More borelix from Korkscrew.

Yow Min Lye

I disapprove of the EU and want out of it; but I don't hate our EU Commissioners or wish them ill. Neither do I foam at the mouth (or I wasn't last time I passed a mirror).

Therefore, can I and millions like me stop being patronised by so-called 'centrist pro-Europeans' who are meanwhile selling my country down the river.

Therefore,

Snowman

Daniel, you've lost it. A connection between the fate of the Tories and the Republicans? You drunk penning this nonsense?

JONNY

If there is a Tory link with the Republicans they should cut it.
Obama remains the only contender over here. The rest are scatter-gun.

Bob Cat

Win one for the Gipper ? Who was/is this Gipper ?

Ahhh....Yes......... RONALD REAGAN - the Great, no less.

Would that be the same Reagan who won the Presidency in 1980 winning every state bar West Verginia, Minnesota and Georgia and re-elected in 1984 winning every state bar Minnesota ?

Yep that's him. That well known Dave style hoodie huggin' Social Democrat.

Get a life ! Or more to the point even a vague political and historical understanding.

Hysteria

WTFFFF?

comparing DC to RR?

Vulture

Bob Cat is quite right: Ronald Reagan was a right-wing Republican in tune with the sound conservative instincts of the vast majority of Americans, not a metropolitan Marxist like Barry Obarmy.

BY this post Mr Korski demonstrates quite conclusively that though he may know the ins and outs of Baroness Ashton, he knows less than nothing about the US or its politics. Would we had a genuine Gipper rather than dopey Dave.

djw2009

If both parties stand for the same thing, then there is no democracy. This sort of centrism, driven by a left-wing media, has hollowed out democracy. The Telegraph and the Spectator have been screeching all week about the need to vote conservative to save £15 in N.I. being imposed on jobs - when it comes down to trivial sums it is clear that all the politicians in both main parties could just as easily be in the other party. Daniel Korski, if you believe in this technochratic post-democratic world, why don't you go the whole hog and recommend abolishing elections too? Actually I think revolution is the only real conservative way today. I would love to man the barricades myself, given the chance.

The Aged P

So in essence the GOP should choose the candidate selected by NYT, WaPo and the alphabet networks, just as they did in 2008 when they came up with centrist McCain...didn't he do well!!!!!