The Blairites are making a comeback — at Conservative HQ

Tony Makara

More must be done to promote job-creation in the private sector. Especially in manufacturing and agriculture which could, over time, produce the million plus jobs needed to end wefare dependency.

A start can be made by making it profitable for producers and farmers to supply the domestic market. Which is a ready made market waiting to be exploited. Special tax status should be awarded to British firms who supply the domestic market, allowing these producers to keep more of their profits as incentive. New firms should be allowed to operate tax-free until they have grown to a certain size.

David Cameron has pledged to support the supply-side with transport infrastructure. This is a very positive move and would lend itself to British producers supplying the domestic market. Recent events have taught us that imports are not always cheap and that we need a more balanced economy with more British produced goods available to consumers.

David Short

Because Cameron is an empty vessel, very similar in that sense to Blair, and whose experience as a pr man of a 'real job' is even less than that of Blair, I don't really believe that this rich kid is 100 per cent destined for power.

It's a pity there's no chance of a Tory leadership change before then.

A hung parliament with the Lib-Dems in the driving seat is more likely.

Don't forget Kinnock's hubris.

David Lindsay

The Continuity New Labour Council.

Just what we all want, need and deserve.

Isn't it?

sid

I can't believe how anyone can be deceived by that pompous charlatan Camoron. Obviously a good education in an exclusive school helps. Tory MPs desperate for power have copied the Blair blueprint to the letter. The hierarchy have squashed any dissenters, and banished them to the hinterlands. As usual there are plenty of servile fags, fighting to gain favour with the prigs in charge. All they crave and all they will receive will be a condescending pat on the head from the head prefect and his clique. How can a party that produced Thatcher have sunk to such depths.

David Short

Somehow Cameron has got to be rid of before the next election. He hasn't had the courage to come out against 42 days, against 28 days, in fact against any day that a British subject of the Queen should be held without charge.

Even those of us who would otherwise support Labour cannot condone this.

We need an Opposition that will repeal this law. Either vote Cameron out as Tory leader and bring in Boris or DD, or we will really need to push hard for a Lib-Dem government.

I know the Tories don't normally kick out a leader until he's/she's lost an election, but this is too important an issue to for the normal rules to apply.

I wish the Spectator, even under the dim management it now has, would make this a central issue.

Matthew Cain

Phil Collins has always been adept at repeating what he has heard from more intelligent, thoughtful colleagues and claiming credit for the remarks himself. The man is not wise enough to know his own limitations.

Bob T

Excellent interesting article which speaks volumes about Cameron and former Blairites (and indirectly Brown). So much so that it is difficult to understand who has moved in what direction with what end in mind. Indeed it is reminiscent of the plaintive question raised in a well known ditty involving an unlikely couple in a comparable state of confusion: "Who does what, with what, to whom?"

Pugnacious Perry

Oh Lordy, Lordy, - he who SHOULD have been the Ire of Bliar, - surely isn’t really the Heir of Blair after all? The inane grin, the gush, the faux sincerity . . . . . the ‘I hear you’ . . .

Time to give up on this one folks, there’s better things to do with our time and energy