Ex Tory Minister grasps Cameron's "credibility is blown away"!

David Mellor, who ran Mr Hunt’s department under the last Tory government in the 1990s, said Mr Hunt had only survived to protect Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr Mellor said that he thought there would be a “number of scalps” from the fallout of the Leveson inquiry into press standards. He told Sky News’ Murnaghan: “Jeremy Hunt will probably have to go. But I think the real scalp is the Prime Minister – he won’t have to resign but his credibility is blown away.

The report may be read in full from the Daily Telegraph this morning linked here.

Such a conclusion is not even related to that newspaper's main headline today regarding the latest item of expenses fiddling by senior politicians, in this case Tory Party Chair and Cameron appointee, the Cameron ennobled Baroness Warsi, read here.

Everything, but everything, that Cameron has either touched or attempted during his trenure as party leader, itself achived as a result of blatant manipulations, fully detailed on this blog, has turned to complete disaster not just for his own party as was initially the case,) but now for the country itself.

It is only the Conservative Party that can now effect the obvious remedy!

Read also AKHaart here on Cameron!

Tories believe Murdochs can do no wrong!

The Conservatives believe Cameron and Osborne are fit people to run the country, naturally they would believe the Murdochs are fit to run such a company. Do any left in the party now hold a moral scruple between them?     

How can Cameron and Osborne continue after Leveson today?

The first and last paragraphs of one report on evidence given by James Murdoch, at the inquiry today, linked here, was as follows:

James Murdoch met David Cameron 12 times while he was leader of the opposition, including four meetings also attended by Rebekah Brooks, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.....

Mr Murdoch confirmed he was "friendly" with Mr Osborne. He said he had one discussion with the Chancellor about News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB. Mr Murdoch said his conversation about the proposed buy-out of the satellite broadcaster with the Chancellor "would have just been to be grumpy about it taking a long time and being referred to (regulator) Ofcom, which I was very clear in public about at the same time".

The Murdoch's have owned British politics for decades it appears from all this mounting evidence - they are therefore apparently as culpable for the nation's decline as is the EU!

Cameron's dumping of his party

As Cameronism collapses, the following point was well made by Peter Oborne yesterday, linked here:

In private, Cameron’s circle make no secret about why he has chosen to govern through a tight-knit inner group. The leader and his Chancellor were the two favoured graduates from the exclusive and well-trained school of modernisers (initially led by Michael Portillo and Francis Maude) which captured the party at the turn of the century. This faction was transfixed by the success of Tony Blair – rather than being revolted by New Labour’s methods, they sought to copy them.
They enthusiastically embraced many of the worst aspects of Blairism: the obsession with very rich men; the divergence between public statements and private conduct; the preference for policy-making through private cabal; and the almost demented Blairite contempt for their own party members.

Nottingham Nasty Clarke under attack from his own MPs!

The report regarding the disgraceful situation over Abu Qatada is linked here.

My own view on the ECHR ruling was on Ironies Too, linked here.

PM Cameron's pledge for 2012 in his New Year Message:

"While a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in, many others are stuck on benefits, without hope or responsibility. So we will tackle excess in the City just as we're reforming welfare to make work pay and to support families."

PM Cameron's friend gets rewarded in New Year Honours List, as quoted from here:


Sunday Mail

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DAVID CAMERON was under increasing pressure yesterday after a Tory donor – whose firm made at least £100million betting against Britain’s stricken banks – was knighted.
Paul Ruddock’s gong in the New Year Honours List was condemned by politicians and campaigners.
His hedge fund company Lansdowne Partners made around £100million by betting that Northern Rock’s share price would fall in 2007 and made millions more from moving shares in other troubled banks.
Ruddock, 52, who has donated more than £500,000 to the Tories since 2003, was knighted for services to the arts.

Tory Crisis Grows

The Slog now has seen reality, a quote from the latest comment:

The business case for departure from the EU is extremely powerful, but blocked at every turn by pols and bureaucrats who can talk only in terms of fear: how would we cope? where would we sell? What would the penalties be? Nobody can give all the answers to these weak-kneed questions, but what we can do is point out that with £118bn less to find each year (and another £40bn bill about to be dumped on our welcome mat) we'd be off to a flying start. The fact of the matter is that redistributionist Europe and its chocolate soldiers are history: the future lies in making added-value products, and selling them to a bottomless market called Asia.

Between mad pc on the one hand and the BNP on the other, there is a largely untapped area of the electorate called Decency & Common Sense. I think we have reached the stage now where one major defection of a senior Tory or a leading media figure to UKIP just might prove to be a game-changer. UKIP now has the same level of Opinion Poll Support as the LibDems. A joint Tory/UKIP ticket in winnable seats would produce a comfortable majority in many of them; but that would require wholesale regime change in the Conservative Party.

A teeterer becomes a quitter!

The linked post describes the anguish of a former Conservative, "Breaking up is hard to do" from Beneath the Wig Blog