I want the Conservatives to win next time because…

We have a winner in our competition to say, in a sentence, why a normal voter would wish for a Conservative victory. It shows what a fix Cameron is in that so few Tory-supporting people could come up with a good reason for him to be Prime Minister. There were some hilariously cruel suggestions, but we needed a useful one. And here it is…

“I really want the Conservative party to win the next election because only the party that created modern British society can truly be trusted to know how to fix it.- TMS”

I love this. A great reminder that the Conservatives liberated Britain from the 1970s morass, and that the hard won prosperity we enjoy today stems from the Thatcher revolution. And Labour’s failure to turn this into social cohesion is their biggest failure, and the Conservatives biggest opportunity. This is the “broken society” agenda – Cameron’s most powerful weapon. And Brown will never follow this, because he will never accept British society is broken.

So congratulations TMS – would you like to collect the bubbly, or shall we post it to you?

Many answers made me laugh, and despair. Here are a few:

I want the Conservatives to win the next election because…

….because I backed them at 4/1 a couple of years ago (Colin Pritchard)

…. because slow progress in the right direction is better than rapid progress in the wrong direction (Timj)

 …because there’s a faint hope that sooner or later they may have an authentic leader able to discern and courageously articulate traditional British values of fairness, independence of spirit, and freedom (Perry)*

…because there’s only an inch of difference between them and Labour but it’s the inch we live in. (Mark Taha)

…because they are unlikely to be quite as bad as the current government and will do it for 99p against Labour’s pound, which over five years makes a difference (Og)

…because failing a second coming, I’m unlikely to see a bigger miracle this decade (Maurice)

PS. Liam Fox came up with “broken society” two years ago as the theme for his leadership campaign, something everyone has now forgotten. So take a bow, doctor. Your party owes you.