Keeping the backbenches occupied

Woody

Interesting idea, do CCHQ read this blog?

stephen

Just watching Jeremy Hunt's performance on Question Time in Plymouth, the sooner he is recycled to the Backbenchs the better. Surely Cabinet Ministers should have the air of maturity and experience IMHO Hunt shows neither there must be better talent on the Back Bench!

djw2009

I think the Spectator has destroyed itself as a conservative magazine. What with Korski, Blackburn and Forsyth, they have a bunch of prize leftwing chumps working for the magazine, none of whom could analyse a toenail clipping, let alone a government policy.

"There are things that the Conservatives would like to do but can’t do because they didn’t win a majority". Actually, no. NO. There are things THE CONSERVATIVES PRETEND TO THE COUNTRY THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO BUT CAN'T BECAUSE OF THE LIBDEMS, but in fact the leadership of the party don't want to do them.

Cameron is happier with LibDem politics than Conservative politics. He is after all just an opportunist whose instincts are pretty leftwing.

* Inheritance tax cut - the thing that launched Dave's fight against Brown - is one of the things that "sadly must remain a mere aspiration", while behind closed doors, Cammie has been begging the LibDems to insist this policy be dropped.
* Ditto foxhunting ban.
* Ditto national insurance rise reversal.
* Ditto repeal of the Human Rights Act (all campaigned for by Dave in the election)
* Ditto integration in Europe, which has suddenly sped up with controls on hedge funds and national budgets

I am sure there are many things I have forgotten since this unloveable bunch of political transvestites came to power. But: Cameron does NOT want to do anything in the Tory manifesto that is not in the coalition agreement.

If you can't spot a liar at 10 paces, James Forsyth, you cannot be a political analyst. Get a proper job!

djw2009

>>>there also need to be people who act as policy outriders for the Coalition.

You mean, like Fraser Nelson, James Forsyth, Daniel Korski, David Blackburn, Ben Brogan, Janet Daley? I think there are enough political tarts in the media performing that role, don't you?

Verity

When did British prime ministers become Italianate and start talking with their hands ... reinforcing URGENT POINTS! ... with GESTURES? I don't recall Margaret Thatcher making violent hand movements when she spoke. Nor, on film, Harold MacMillan. Nor, on film, Winston Churchill.

They all spoke calmly, relying on their words ....

Now we have Diva Dave - making urgent hand signals ... if he becomes any more floreate he'll be singing the lead in Madame Butterflyt ..... Traffic signals? Left lane only, merge right? Football umpire signs? Why aren't words enough for Dave?

Does anyone else find Camoron's operatic hand gestures emetic?

What a nasty little man. People sense that he's horrible, which is why he couldn't get a majority despite the biggest open gate in the history of the world. The Trojan horse should have been so lucky.

ajs

There, there, Verity; keep taking the tablets and avoid chocolate cornflakes. You know they have a bad effect on Fido as well as yourself.

2trueblue

What would you be saying if we had ended up with a Lib/Lab coalition?

The Lib Dems have so far pushed far into Tory territory and can not carry on. They are the cuckoos in the nest, and although the logic of letting them be seen to share the responsibility/blame for the pain we are going to endure is logical, it is eating too far into mix. I am for anything that might keep the chaps out front aware and in line with the real issues of the tory party.

Verity, being continually negative about Cameron achieves nothing.

Vulture

@2trueblue;
Verity likes being ahead of the curve.

Cameron likes being behind it - that's why he thinks Bliar is great; AGW is real; and
O Bummer is still the Blessed One.

We'll all be negative abt Dave pretty soon.

2trueblue

Vulture, being ahead of the curve means you can miss your target. I prefer the straight line, it hits most of the time.

Blofeld's Cat

Verity - horrible, splenetic, pointless bile as usual.

I actually think he's doing rather well (for the country, if not for you) and if I only hear him on the steam wireless, I can't see his hand gestures and I can't see his face.

Steve Tierney

The issues commented on which we've had to hold back on; Human Rights Act etc can WAIT.

The two urgent issues - the ones which were an imminent threat to the whole country were the debt problems and the destruction of civil liberties.

We are dealing with both, and in good order. As long as we carry on doing that then we'll still have a viable country in the future - and then we can have the other battles in the safe knowledge that our grandchildren wont grow up in a bankrupt police state.

General Zod

Verity is getting confused and describing herself, not Cameron.

Time for your medicine, Verity.

Verity

To the delusional "General" Zod, your aspiring to mediocrity has failed again.

The correct, hoary old internet term for those who wish to be dismissive of others yet lack the mental wherewithal to think up their own insults is "Time to up the meds".

General Zod

Piffle.