Who will fight 2015, when everyone is busy preparing for leadership?

Posted 12 Mar 2013 by Walaa Idris

Despite the weekly, now daily revelations of a new potential Tory leader, realistically there is no vacancy for Mr Cameron’s job. However following daily news, you will be forgiven for thinking there is one.

By all accounts, David Cameron is still the Conservative Party’s big hope and our best leader since Margret Thatcher. He might not have given us a Conservative majority in 2010 and his modernising agenda might not appeal to everyone, but he is still our best bet for a win come 2015, even if it is another coalition. Because another Conservative LibDem partnership will be far better for the country than a Labour government can ever be.

Tory agitators need to understand that.

They also need to appreciate that until UKip has some parliamentary representation the best they can do is split the Tory vote. And although splitting our votes does not necessary win them any parliamentary seats it will most definitely lose us MPs. Only the Tories can stop this from happening. They can do it by uniting behind their leader, have one voice and listen to the public.

Recently, it has become clear that voters don’t care about political parties’ inner fighting and mechanics. However, they care very much about their daily living and the state of their own personal economy. Those out of work want jobs; those in work want job security, lower taxes and better services. Pensioners want good care and good returns on their life savings and parents want to know they can securely look after their families. Beyond that most electorates don’t want for much. They don’t trust Labour and understand the damage they caused to this country, and now that LibDems are in government they will protest by voting Ukip.

Eastleigh was exactly that. It was the proof and the warning the Conservatives needed to wake up.

Latest polling showed that most of those who voted UKip in Eastleigh see themselves more as left wing than conservatives. And they did not care whether they had a vote on Europe or not, but were concerned about local issues and the cost of daily living. They also wanted to show their irritation with mainstream politics in general and the Conservative Party in particular, and they disliked negative campaigns.

Boris Johnson, David Davis, William Huge, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Liam Fox, Jeremy Hunt, Philip Hammond, Adam Afriyie, Jesse Norman, Justin Greening, Theresa Villiers and now Theresa May. Are all nice people but in all honesty I can’t see any of them as leader of the Conservative Party. So the sooner they and their backers pack-it-in the better is it for all of us but mostly the country.

We can’t (as a party) on the one hand say we put aside our ideological differences, came together and subscribed these tough measures in the national interest, to better and fix our nation’s economy, and with the other daily complain and leak what can only be personal ambition and self-interest!

Politics is very much like Showbiz; both politicians and Showbiz types are alike in that they live in a bubble and only listen to what they want to hear. But in the real world, Cameron is the star who weekly out polls his own party, if that is not prove he is on the right track, I don’t know what is. But what I do know for sure, it is definitely the time for Tory egotists’ to wake up and put their country and what’s best for our party first.

Categories: ,

1 comment(s)

Jw Rotherham

Jw Rotherham
12 Mar, 11:30

Put our country first by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Re-negotiation is NOT an option. You, John Redwood and all the europlastics should get a grip – the only way is OUT of the E.U. When will you all realise this?

Commenting is closed for this article.