TORY SOCIALISM
Below is an extract of an article recently written by Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail:
Full of fake Tories, with the political grasp of a Teletubby
Last updated at 6:36 PM on 04th October 2008
David Cameron’s media bodyguard closed ranks around him last week, trying to keep the truth about him from coming out.
Most of the exclusive club of political journalists decided some months ago that they will now support the Tories and give Mr Cameron the uncritical adulation they all gave to Princess Tony 11 years ago.
This is Mr Cameron’s reward for wiping out the last remaining traces of proper conservatism in his party.
When he says he ‘gets the modern world’, Mr Cameron is signalling to these people that he is one of them – relaxed about drugs, sexually liberal, opposed to ideas like discipline and punishment.
This means that any speech he makes, however indifferent and dishonest, is praised.
Well, I was at the Tory conference in Birmingham, and I endured Mr Cameron’s allegedly superb speech – and what went before it – and I thought I might let you know what was really going on.
I know a lot of you won’t like it. You harbour the illusion that a Cameron government will be significantly different from a Brown or Blair government.
But you will like it even less when you find out that Mr Cameron, who plans to be elected as New Labour, will govern as New Labour did, too. Then where will you turn for help?
The warm-up act before Mr Cameron’s oration took the form of personal statements by a series of Tory candidates.
First up was the comical figure of Louise Bagshawe, an author of trashy novels who sported an AIDS awareness ribbon for her appearance.
No surprise there. Miss Bagshawe has the political grasp of a Teletubby and was – like so many other Cameron fans – a supporter of the Labour Party in 1996.
A couple of others, to give you the flavour of the thing, wished us ‘Happy Eid’.
This was followed by two peculiar videos. One showed Shadow Cabinet members toiling on some worthily soppy community project.
The other seemed to claim that the Tories – who devastated defence expenditure the last time they controlled it – were in some way on the side of the Armed Forces.
Then we had the man himself. His speech was in general a buttock-numbing affair, and nearly went badly wrong when he talked about how he ‘slept with an entrepreneur every night’.
Tories don’t like these Cherie Blair-type references to things they regard as private. You could feel the discomfort in the hall, and Mr Cameron (realising he was not in fashionable London) had to scrabble hard to recover.
He also made a number of references to God – one claiming that the Almighty preferred Margaret Thatcher to Jim Callaghan – which would have jarred with any seriously religious listener.
One does have to wonder if he actually understands the church services he has so assiduously attended to help his daughter into an exclusive church primary school.
Then there were the various claims that he wouldn’t put up with bad things in our society.
He wouldn’t put up with examiners who gave marks for the f-word. How will he change this? Does he think he will have the power to fire the legions of examiners who think like this?
Where will this power come from? He has no real plans for school reform, only the usual gimmicks.
He raged against the death of a woman, allegedly from MRSA.
What is his magic cure for MRSA? He has no right to make such claims. He is raising hopes only to dash them.
He made his usual declaration of support for marriage, but combined it (as usual) with a refusal to confront the fact that the State aggressively subsidises single parenthood, and aggressively undermines marriage in immoral sex-education programmes, and that as long as it does so, marriage will die.
Oh, and he also pretended to be ‘tough’ on the European Union. But the reality is very different. Two Tory Euro-MPs who are genuinely critical of the EU last week withdrew mysteriously from a fringe meeting where they would have been speaking alongside people calling (rightly) for withdrawal from the EU.
In the Tory Party you can posture about Brussels, but in the end you must support it, as Mr Cameron enthusiastically does.
You have been warned. Yes, the Tory Party is a Trojan Horse, but the soldiers concealed within it are warriors of liberalism and political correctness.
Full of fake Tories, with the political grasp of a Teletubby
Last updated at 6:36 PM on 04th October 2008
David Cameron’s media bodyguard closed ranks around him last week, trying to keep the truth about him from coming out.
Most of the exclusive club of political journalists decided some months ago that they will now support the Tories and give Mr Cameron the uncritical adulation they all gave to Princess Tony 11 years ago.
This is Mr Cameron’s reward for wiping out the last remaining traces of proper conservatism in his party.
When he says he ‘gets the modern world’, Mr Cameron is signalling to these people that he is one of them – relaxed about drugs, sexually liberal, opposed to ideas like discipline and punishment.
This means that any speech he makes, however indifferent and dishonest, is praised.
Well, I was at the Tory conference in Birmingham, and I endured Mr Cameron’s allegedly superb speech – and what went before it – and I thought I might let you know what was really going on.
I know a lot of you won’t like it. You harbour the illusion that a Cameron government will be significantly different from a Brown or Blair government.
But you will like it even less when you find out that Mr Cameron, who plans to be elected as New Labour, will govern as New Labour did, too. Then where will you turn for help?
The warm-up act before Mr Cameron’s oration took the form of personal statements by a series of Tory candidates.
First up was the comical figure of Louise Bagshawe, an author of trashy novels who sported an AIDS awareness ribbon for her appearance.
No surprise there. Miss Bagshawe has the political grasp of a Teletubby and was – like so many other Cameron fans – a supporter of the Labour Party in 1996.
A couple of others, to give you the flavour of the thing, wished us ‘Happy Eid’.
This was followed by two peculiar videos. One showed Shadow Cabinet members toiling on some worthily soppy community project.
The other seemed to claim that the Tories – who devastated defence expenditure the last time they controlled it – were in some way on the side of the Armed Forces.
Then we had the man himself. His speech was in general a buttock-numbing affair, and nearly went badly wrong when he talked about how he ‘slept with an entrepreneur every night’.
Tories don’t like these Cherie Blair-type references to things they regard as private. You could feel the discomfort in the hall, and Mr Cameron (realising he was not in fashionable London) had to scrabble hard to recover.
He also made a number of references to God – one claiming that the Almighty preferred Margaret Thatcher to Jim Callaghan – which would have jarred with any seriously religious listener.
One does have to wonder if he actually understands the church services he has so assiduously attended to help his daughter into an exclusive church primary school.
Then there were the various claims that he wouldn’t put up with bad things in our society.
He wouldn’t put up with examiners who gave marks for the f-word. How will he change this? Does he think he will have the power to fire the legions of examiners who think like this?
Where will this power come from? He has no real plans for school reform, only the usual gimmicks.
He raged against the death of a woman, allegedly from MRSA.
What is his magic cure for MRSA? He has no right to make such claims. He is raising hopes only to dash them.
He made his usual declaration of support for marriage, but combined it (as usual) with a refusal to confront the fact that the State aggressively subsidises single parenthood, and aggressively undermines marriage in immoral sex-education programmes, and that as long as it does so, marriage will die.
Oh, and he also pretended to be ‘tough’ on the European Union. But the reality is very different. Two Tory Euro-MPs who are genuinely critical of the EU last week withdrew mysteriously from a fringe meeting where they would have been speaking alongside people calling (rightly) for withdrawal from the EU.
In the Tory Party you can posture about Brussels, but in the end you must support it, as Mr Cameron enthusiastically does.
You have been warned. Yes, the Tory Party is a Trojan Horse, but the soldiers concealed within it are warriors of liberalism and political correctness.
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