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Seven Reasons to vote Tory.

Posted by davidtoo on Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:28:12

  • ID Cards are to go under the Conservatives. Even the Liberals haven't promised that they would scrap them if the plan was already in the process of being implemented.
  • The sentiment behind Cameron's "hug a hoodie" loosely that society must show strict discipline towards and genuine affection and enthousiasm for the young, you'll struggle to find in Blair's Britain.
  • We're not Labour. We don't rule by opinion polls. And we don't like spin.
  • David Davis who has shown that you can stand in a marginal, campaign on issues from the right and treble your majority. The people need a lead with the message that it pays society and the individual to be socially conservative.
  • Our euro-scepticism, tax-cutting, pro-business, Unionist, pro-Monarchy, countryside-loving instinct rules.
  • Blair goes on a Berlusconi jaunt to Tuscany, Cameron to a Scania factory in Sweden. What does that tell you about the sort of country both leaders aspire for Britain to become?
  • In local government, in the vast majority of cases, the two characteristics that Labour and the Liberals lack, respectively - 'fairplay' and spine - the Tories possess.

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Posted by leowatkins on Sunday, 18 February 2007 00:47:11

 

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Posted by Popple on Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:54:45

No ID cards - sorry but the Conservative Party in Government will only make them work better and a good thing too.

Posted by davetheslave on Sunday, 18 February 2007 10:49:55

"Blair goes on a Berlusconi jaunt to Tuscany, Cameron to a Scania factory in Sweden. What does that tell you about the sort of country both leaders aspire for Britain to become?"

So Cameron wants Britain to become a social democratic country with high taxation, 18 months paid parent leave, free university education, low wage inequality, a smoking ban, lower blood alcohol limits for driving, taxpayer-funded public transport, state-restricted alcohol sales, advanced HBT rights, and very powerful trade unions?

I'd sign up to that agenda (I live in Sweden), but it doesn't exactly tie in with your message that "it pays society and the individual to be socially conservative", does it?

Posted by Geddes on Sunday, 18 February 2007 14:14:04

My local conservative representative is an alcoholic. Hm. That's why it went LibDem.

Posted by Votedave on Sunday, 18 February 2007 15:54:42

Watch your language, Leo.

Posted by PJP40 on Sunday, 18 February 2007 20:16:44

"theyve sold of the Hammersmith Palais - a premier gig venue - to be redeveloped into offices and restaurants."

Sounds good to me - although the Palais has a golden past all it is famous for now is shootings and stabbings. I would rather go to Shepards Bush Empire anyway, and that is not exactly far from H&F; is it?!

I am in the adjacent council to you - Ealing - where the new Tory Council have cut taxes and recently had their Child Care rating raised from 0 stars to 2 stars. The only council in the whole of Britain with such a raise....

Posted by davidtoo on Monday, 19 February 2007 17:51:30

Thanks for your replies.

Popple - I'm sure we would run it better, but read the Conservative Party website: it is not going to happen under a Cameron government. We've even written to the Cabinet Secretary to intimate as much (BBC Five Live about 10 days ago.)

davetheslave - You're the expert on Sweden. I'd like to visit it too if I had the chance. I guess this is the point. If I were going to visit I probably wouldn't want to spend hours being lectured on truck engine design. Hence the respect for Cameron on this point.

Geddes - if I make an unsupported generalisation, I guess you are within your rights to counter with an 'inextrapolatable' qualification.

PJP40 - quite!

 

Comment edited by davidtoo on Monday, 19 February 2007 17:56:25

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