Cameron is alienating his voters
29 July 2006
Neither pundits, pollsters nor politicians of Right, Left or Centre seem to understand the scale of humiliation heaped upon the Conserva- tive and Labour parties alike in last month’s by-elections at Bromley & Chislehurst and Blaenau Gwent. They should do, for the writing has been on the wall long enough for any literate politician to read. Dai Davies, the Independent who trashed Labour in Blaenau Gwent, read it out aloud at his declaration, warning political parties they must listen to the voters or it would be the worse for them.
The Conservative party clutches favourable opinion polls like a baby grasps for a dummy. But the polls are all too much like the witches who hailed Macbeth as ‘Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and King thereafter’ and Banquo warned Macbeth:
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