Great News Everyone!

[andrewducker]

After the Tory party failed to make huge strides in the recent by-elections there are mutterings of a recall and replacement of David Cameron as leader.

Which seems overly harsh to me, as expecting Conservative victories in the Labour heartlands seems unlikely to say the least. Voters who were protesting against Labour were much more likely to go Lib Dem, and indeed that's what happened.

But with any luck this will lead to the return of the massive infighting that destroyed the Tory election chances for the last 10 years, drag the party back rightwards (where their base seems to be steadily aging/shrinking) and produce a sea-change in the make-up of UK politics.

Ok, make that "with a _lot_ of luck".

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Hold on... I thought the Tories were the bad guys?

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

A lot of luck indeed. Anybody with half a brain cell knowes Cameron is the 'last best hope' for Conservatives.
Riding the bucking bronco of a party with ideological fractures is part of the game - Tony managed it for over ten years.

Also, unless the electoral system is reformed, the Lib Dems will never be able to step up. They don't have safe seats in large numbers, and safe seats maketh the party under FPP. So if the tories imploded again, we might get another stretch of untempered Labour.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Knowing that your evil conservatives are a whole lots less evil and a whole lot less powerful than our evil conservatives definitely gives me hope for the future.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I think our best hope is that the man is obviously a bit of an idiot, and voters will gradually (and indeed are coming to) realise this.

I don't think we'll get massive infighting. Long periods in the wilderness promote sullen acquiescence in the membership - just look at Labour ...

[guyinahat.livejournal.com]

Another thought. If Labour stay in power too long, then the Tories might end up winning because people just vote for a change, rather than any ideological merit. Maybe the election after next, when we could be looking at 18 years of Labour rule. In that scenario, we might end up with some hardcore tosser like IDS or Howard.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

If there is one change that is sorely needed, it is the removal of the 'Tim-nice-but-dim' Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Walter Menzies Campbell. He is a very nice man - I've met him personally - but completely unelectable, rather ancient, lacking teeth, and, alas, somewhat useless. Who would I replace him with? Chris Huhne. Again, I've met him personally (my mother was friends with his sister when she was a girl), and at Hustings: he is a fantastic speaker, and one that seems to possess both a brain and a fiscally-aware social conscience. Moreover, I would hope that were he to be elected, he would more than provide the change that you, and the country, wish for...