British Conservatives… Gawd!
DAILY PUNDIT
By Lastango on EURO
Melanie Phillips discusses the UK Tories and David Cameron, their empty-suit leader.
"The reason for this shambles is that, from the start, the Tory analysis of both British society and the reason they lost three successive general elections was fundamentally flawed. They knew that people despised them, and that many even saw them as a bunch of weirdos from a different planet. They knew they were associated with issues such as immigration, crime and Europe.
They therefore assumed that the reason people loathed them was that they loathed their position on these issues.
But that wasn't it at all. They were despised because they were all still associated with the John Major government, which was seen as a collection of incompetent and opportunistic sleazeballs who would sell their own grandmothers to get elected.
The British public refused to elect the Tories not because voters didn't care about crime, uncontrolled immigration and the loss of self-government to the EU, but because they didn't trust the Tories to handle these, or indeed any other, issues."
On that theme, try a bit of Steyn from a past post:
"The other day I was reading an account of the latest genius idea from Britain. The carbon emission-trading system imposed by Kyoto is absurd and entirely ineffectual, but in London David Cameron now wants to apply it to hamburgers. Over there, a Big Mac costs 3 bucks or so. But, if children eat too many, the consequent problems of juvenile obesity will be a further strain on the National Health Service.
So Mr. Cameron wants to impose some sort of Kyotoesque calorie-trading system on fast-food purveyors whereby McDonald's would have some transfat cap imposed on it to ensure they pick up the tab for what that 3 dollar Big Mac really costs society. And David Cameron is the leader of the alleged Conservative Party.
He also lives in a country whose major cities have been hollowed out by Islamist cells.
Nevertheless, as England decays into Somalia with chip shops, taxing the chip shops is the Conservatives' priority." |
