A compromise, but at what price!?

First it was the uncomfortable acceptance of defeat and going into coalition with a leftish partner that wasn’t always easy to communicate with. It was tough to start with, but anything for the good of the nation, any price, any compromise! As conservatives, for us country will always come first and the rest just has to follow.

However, soon afterwards, the language started to change. Not only that, but our own side seemed more comfortable with the LibDems than they are with some of their own; they appeared to be too at ease, too at home!

Then the Tory backbenchers – who obviously are more in tune with the daily ins and outs of the Westminster village and can see first-hand what many outsiders can’t even comprehend – began to fidget a little. They started to show signs of unrest, and discontent. “They are spoiled” cried many from all sides, they have been squeezed out by the coalition and are unhappy – they are just being selfish and spoiled ….

Little by little, day by day we saw as our own government – at more than 60% of the partnership – became too in your face, too meddling, untrusting and too forceful! Times are hard, but commanding and undermining are not the same as compassion and understanding. The government became overly content to offer opinions on peoples’ personal lives and livelihood, telling folks what they should and shouldn’t eat, how much to drink. And instead of getting on with the business of sorting out the mess they inherited from the previous meddling lot, they themselves began moralising. They stared to tell the taxpayers, the voters what loopholes not to use rather than getting on with closing them. Suggested what bonuses bankers should receive in place of regulating the banking system.

It is very, very, painful for any conservative, after 13 years of watching abled individuals being babied and spoon feed what the state thinks they should and shouldn’t do and how they should behave, to watch a two third Tory government do the same! It’s a painful compromise any true Tory will find hard to stomach.