Blackballed by Cameron
9 October 2010
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How I became a Tory pariah
David Cameron’s Conservative party has several uniquely destructive traits. But perhaps foremost is that it believes the lies of its enemies. And even when it doesn’t, it panders to them.
A perfect example arose three years ago when the shadow minister of homeland security, Patrick Mercer, gave a newspaper interview in which he mentioned the fact that he had heard racist comments while he was in the army.
Even a cursory glance at the interview showed that Mercer was reporting — and deploring — these comments. But Cameron didn’t bother with a glance. Here was an opportunity to show the new Conservative party. So Cameron described Mercer’s comments as ‘completely unacceptable’, issued soundbites about the evils of racism, smeared and sent to the back benches a much better man than himself.
In July the same traits were on show during Cameron’s visit to Turkey. While praising his hosts, he dismissed opponents of Turkish EU entry as ‘prejudiced’.
Partly this is a generational thing. While Cameron was growing up, left-wing views were steadily ingraining themselves. To be a Conservative carried a stigma: the mean, bad, ‘nasty’ party. Cameron and his colleagues to varying degrees assimilated these opinions. Rather than realising that the left is the cause of many of our society’s problems, they instead awarded the opponents of conservatism the right to be the sole arbiters of moral credibility. And so for the new Conservatives it has become far more important to appeal to their opponents than to be remotely pleasant to likely allies. I know because on a very small scale I have experienced it myself.
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Bill Corr
October 9th, 2010 3:54am Report this commentAnyone possessed of a brain and knowing anything at all of present-day Turkey - not to mention the history of Turkey over the last hundred or so years - is opposed to Turkish membership of the EU.
Witness the treatment of Christian, Jewish and Kurdish minorities.
Witness, too, the preposterous political trials now under way as the retro-Islamists of the ruling party attempt to undermine the Kemalists of the General Staff and their associates.
There is an online English-language newspaper called 'Daily Zaman' which will enlighten unelightened readers as to what is happening in contemporary Turkey.
Concerning Wisteria "Call-Me-Dave" Cameron, it's important to remember that he is a PR man first and foremost; "Grab Tomorrow's Favourable Headline" might well be his motto.
It would be interesting to know what Muslims in the Conservative Party like Baroness Warsi - she who claimed that "Asian" electoral fraud had deprived the Tories of three winnable seats - thinks of Douglas Murray.
Bill Corr
October 9th, 2010 9:44am Report this commentApologies for the minor error on my part.
Try reading this::
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-208034-ergenekon-fact-vs-fiction-1-unraveling-the-trial-of-the-century.html
... "Today's Zaman" is the title
Herbert Thornton
October 15th, 2010 11:23pm Report this commentBill Corr's essay highlights yet again, though not enough people are yet realistic enough to recognise it, the reason why Cameron fared so poorly at the General Election.
Cameron - and the Tory apparatchiks who support him are in thrall to Political Correctness. As a result, they care no more about the problem of too much immigration than did the Labour Party. Worse still, they are, just like the Labour Party, pig-headedly, foolishly and willfully determined to ignore the mortal peril of the growing presence in Britain of Islam.
Sadly, Political Correctness Disease is endemic in all three main parties - and in the Establishment in general.
Herbert Thornton
October 15th, 2010 11:28pm Report this commentNow it's my turn to apologise. I referred to 'Bill Corr's essay' when I should have written 'Douglas Murray's essay'. But Bill's comment is equally sound.
Jack R
October 19th, 2010 7:46am Report this comment"Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Mercer as was spent a quarter of a century as a Army officer in charge of the welfare of his men but according to today’s interview he saw nothing wrong with them being subjected to the worse possible racial insults. But that’s the way it is in the Army he told the Times"
Patrick Mercer, said that when he joined the army in the 1970s the atmosphere in which recruits were trained was in many ways utterly unacceptable nevertheless "nothing was said about this,it wasn't challenged, it was taken on the chin because that's what made you a man"
C Powell
October 22nd, 2010 6:29pm Report this commentSadly, it will probably take another atrocity before anything is done about the Islamist menace in Britain.
Brendan
October 22nd, 2010 7:41pm Report this comment'Call me Dave...'
Er, 'Dhimmi Dave...???'
Mike
October 22nd, 2010 11:27pm Report this commentKeep saying the truth the islam problem is a ticking demographic time bomb working in a jobcentre i have seen how they out breed and claim welfare over any other social group.
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