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A Real Tory – the lady was not for turning

The time has long passed to be polite. There are big stakes being played for – the UK is not an impecunious entity, neither financially nor strategically within Europe and the biggest disappointment has been the two types of treason.

Your correspondent uses the word “treason” not lightly. Brown’s and Nu-Labour’s treason [plus that of the Lib-Dems in a near insignificant way] is a “known treason” to the nation.

Brown has done so much damage on a personal level, a national level, that almost everyone has written about it, not least because he has signed the UK over to Europe. Due to the thickness of the immediate hip-pocket British public, it’s been bought by them and many believe that the EU is some jolly, benign source of funds which somehow supplement our government, which is not investing in infrastructure.

They’re clever bu–ers, the EU, knowing that no one is going to bother reading the fine print and they can be as fascistic and corrupt as they like – we’ll pay through the nose for the privilege. So Brown’s treason is a known known.

Worse, in my eyes, is the Tory treason because they’re trying to ride into power on the strength of a Euroscepticism the party is not embracing in the least.  It is utter bullsh!   Significant then that Dan Hannan’s voice now rings hollow in the minds of Torygraph readers and that’s reflected in the pitiful numbers of commenters on his tit-for-tat party piece on the Lib Dems.  A major Telegraph pundit can usually count commenters in the hundreds.  Dan Hannan has around 30 now, not far off my best figures, whereas, when he was believed, he could count a huge readership.

Why the fall from grace?

The truth is he is between a rock and a hard place.  He’s a rosette man in terms of the party gaining power whilst at the same time, a Eurosceptic in personal belief.  One can’t do that, Dan – there’s a thing called “courage of one’s convictions” and people do have memories of these sorts of things.  Heath is still a dirty word in the party.  Political animals would call my criticism naive and their relativism “practical politics”.  News for them – the British public would like you to shove your practical politics up your proverbial and just stand up and be counted for once.

Consider a few words from the Labour rag, in this case, quite true about the Tories:

“‘We should be committed to a stronger European voice in the world,” he says. “It is the common will to act together that is decisive.” But unfortunately “European unity is lacking on so many issues”.

Brown?  Rumpy Pumpy?  Not a bit of it.  William “sleep with the bloody EU” Hague!

Why? For reasons of strategic realism and electoral guile. The realism is explicit. The Tories were against the Lisbon treaty but “we have to work with what’s there”. That includes the EU’s new foreign service, into which, he assures me, he would despatch some of Britain’s brightest and best diplomats.

Yes, the Tories want the repatriation of some powers, but “we’ve taken a strategic decision that we’re not starting in government [with] a confrontation with the EU”. He had an “excellent meeting” with the German foreign minister the other day. And so on. Welcome the new, pro-European Monsieur Hague.

A hung parliament is NOT a mandate to put anyone at all into an EU foreign service.  You have to go to the people first.  If you go to the electorate in a GE and get a hung parliament for your troubles, that shows conclusively that people wish for neither Labour nor Red Tory.  Try putting a referendum on an in/out EU membership.  Then, if you get 55% to 57% for Europe, fine.  You won’t though and you bloody well know it.  On a straight question of in/out, everyone up and down our fair land knows the result of that already.

You might like to click on this whilst I get my breath back.

Why aren’t any of you Three leaders giving the people a voice [and don't insult our intelligence by calling the GE a voice]?  For reasons of strategic realism and electoral guile.  That’s why. You are flatly ignoring the voice of the people and that’s going to come back to bit you on the bum.

Ladies and anyone of a sensitive disposition – look away please during this expletive about Hague:  the prick!  The unmitigated traitor to anything remotely resembling conservativism!  All that sop to us at the conference – the nod and the wink and all the time, they were colluding with Brussels in the same way Labour have done enthusiastically for thirteen years.

A Labour man or eight wrote to the Albion Alliance that they supported a referendum because it was a chance to legitimize Europe.  Fine, we can’t argue with that.  Bring on the referendum and let’s have done, one way or the other.  At least you boys and girls who hide your emails so no one can lambast you are honest in your treason towards the UK.

Honesty though is something the Cameronites are simply not displaying and true Conservatives are completely dismayed.  Even the Labour rag concedes:

To be sure, there is no new Lisbon treaty in the offing, but there are hard choices coming down the track. Within the first weeks of a new government, Brussels will produce a directive on hedge funds. Britain’s new leaders will need all the friends they have in Europe – or no longer have, in the case of the Tories and the EPP – to make that directive compatible with the vital interests of Britain, which is home to most of Europe’s hedge funds.

Just expand some of the compressed entries here [click top left on Home and read the rest ] and look at some of the delights the EU has in store for us after the general election.  Toll the bells and let’s all weep.  My Scottish friend tried to explain the other day:

The reality is that there is NOT sufficient traction for the kinds of ideas you advocate within mainstream Conservative-leaning votes IN ENGLAND. Conservative leaders who have tried to advocate such policies have failed to win elections and there definitely aren’t enough people to vote UKIP either, in England or of course anywhere else in the UK. I know these are unpalatable facts to you, but facts they are.

So, there it is.  Clearly the Cameronites are hellbent on getting into power and are placating the EU for now, then they’ll progressively introduce power repatriations, so they think.   Hence their nod and wink to us to shut up before the election.

Unfortunately, it don’t work that way, matey.  The public sees Cameron’s U Turns and doesn’t trust him as far as it can kick him.  Not only that but a mere glance at the game plan of the EU and the pending legislation plus the self-amending Lisbon Treaty and delegated authority provisions shows the Tory leadership is being led up the garden path.

Do you see what this is all about – a clash of egos between Cameron and the Commissioners.  Even the fact that he has to placate the bastards in order to be elected as a government should have shown him the true lie of the land.

And those politicos, including former rightist super-bloggers who go along with this guff about “strategic realism and electoral guile” are actually only displaying their own egos. “No, I shan’t read anything about the EU because I know it all and it looks way cool the stance I’m taking. The wheelers and dealers shake my hand and have drinks with me for being so “sensible”. Where are you, Albion Alliance? Cold-shouldered.”

I wonder which the people of Britain would prefer to see – strategic realism and electoral guile or principle?

A Faux Tory – turns left then right again, depending on the wind

So no, Bill – it is not “the kinds of ideas [I] advocate within mainstream Conservative-leaning votes IN ENGLAND” which is the issue.  The issue is that a man who would vacillate, backtrack and appease as Cameron has done is, quite frankly naive.

Heath and Cameron will go down in history as the most disgraceful leaders ever to call themselves Conservative.  The majority of Conservative PPCs want out, despite the spin from CCHQ, when it would only take Cameron to do the right thing and almost the whole country would carry him across the line in a landslide.

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