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Review all the posts from "Tory Party faces meltdown....The Times" through
"German Chancellor intervenes over Cameron, the Conservative Party and the EPP" to "Daily Telegraph urges Cameron to honour his EPP pledge"

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From "A party split from top to toe" through "IDS in his own defence" to "Howard's EU compromise with Clarke"

Re-instate Iain Duncan Smith

Further to my post of this morning calling for Iain Duncan Smith to be re-instated as leader of the party, linked here, it seems worthwhile reminding ourselves of the calibre of the man by repeating some earlier posts from this blog.

The first in this series is an attack he launched on the degradation our politics by the cosying up of politicians of all parties to the tabloid press, and the lowering in standards across society as a whole by the free reign Blair provided Alistair Campbell. Read it in full herewith:

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Sunday, August 31, 2003

IDS on the Attack

A strong attack came from the Tory leader today in the Independent on Sunday, titled "End the culture of deceit" , linked here. (Link repaired 8th July 2011).

According to a summary at the beginning Iain Duncan Smith quite correctly believes and states:-

The real problem with the last six years is that Labour hasn't just ruined its reputation, it has poisoned the whole of politics
Which is exactly what we have been arguing for many months on our sister blog Ironies and elswhere.

However, it is not just the deceit and the control and the inefficiences of the Blair government, all of which IDS adequately covers; it is the very quality of debate in public life that has been devalued by Campbell's thuggish approach to the media. This in turn, as I have unhappily witnessed during infrequent visits, has permeated through society so that not just on the roads or in crowded public places, but even within families or closer circles there is sometimes a harsh and badgering tone to routine daily or mundane exchanges.

I hope that with the passing of Campbell, soon to be followed (it is deeply wished) by Blair and the rest of his truly woefully awful cabinet and administration, some degree of courtesy might be restored if not to politics than at least to the broader British society.

In the penultimate paragraph of his comment the Leader of the Opposition says the following:-

At the next general election the British people won't vote for politicians whose only plea is for them to be trusted with even more power. They don't want another know-all government that promises the earth but delivers nothing. They want a government that is ready to pass Whitehall's power to local communities and to the doctors, teachers and police officers who serve them.

They also want an honest government, and the problem for the Tories as the natural successors to Blair, is that their political party is stained by the same brush as he correctly identifies colours the problems of New Labour.

British Democracy depends upon the party system to function, all parties are now rightly held in such contempt that one must wonder how any can win. That seems to be the challenge for IDS, can all traces of the Major mal-administration be completely purged so that they might just be mostly forgotten?

In my view, with Europe entering a period of almost certain, deep and seemingly incurable economic crisis a re-positioning on that critical policy matter, that impinges on all others even those he chooses to prioritise namely health, education and law and order, would seem the most attractive way of distancing himself from the disastrous policies of his Conservative predecessor. More rigorous sidelining of the remaining Major euro-federalists within the party and more robust policies towards the EU, if adopted now, might well pay dividends subject for once to both being sincerely meant and subsequently followed through.

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The moral and political case for IDS to resume his Conservative Party leadership.

David Cameron has lost the moral and political authority to continue to lead the country. Ridding the nation of this encumbrance to sound policies and morally based judgements ,and therefore it follows, optimum national survival during the rapidly approaching, world economic tsunami, cannot be delayed for much longer. 

The first point that must be dealt with to achieve the National Government (which I believe is becoming the sole recourse,) with the authority to take the urgent decisions to protect the incomes and welfare of Britain’s population, must be taken within the Conservative Party. In calmer times the trashing of our three most recent Prime Ministers by the Murdoch empire could be given time to play out through the process of police enquiries, judicial reviews and the complicated inner politics and leadership election procedures of the Conservative Party, which holds the greatest number of seats in Parliament, from which flows the ability to select an individual to lead the country which other party MPs then have the right to accept or reject.

Iain Duncan Smith was the last leader of the Tory Party to be elected under the system of election introduced by William Hague. The coronation of Michael Howard, followed by the hugely suspect procedures which resulted in David Cameron arriving at the head of the party, are both covered in great detail on my blog Teetering Tories on a day to day basis at the time of each process. In my view, given all the circumstances as there detailed, IDS has the absolute moral right to to justify the party leadership being returned to him at this difficult moment, for just as long as the coming World Economic collapse continues, and while he can gain the necessary support from the Labour and Liberal Democrats party, whom I would suggest he invites to form a National Government, just as in war time, which the coming months seem likely to resemble.

So much for the moral case. What of the politics?

As I pointed out on these pages earlier this week, eight years ago IDS identified the dangers to our country from the European union, and was subsequently removed from the leadership of his party for his pains. Just as happened to Margaret Thatcher before him. Thatcher and IDS have both been proved entirely correct in all their warnings. Nobody in the Conservative Party, other perhaps than Ken Clarke and a few other EU fanatics, could today argue with that obvious fact.

David Cameron has failed politically. He apparently sacrificed his probity to News International, in order to gain election against the least popular and thoroughly tainted party in recent modern history. He failed! Popular opinion had it, that IDS was ruthlessly dumped following being smeared in the media, because he was considered unelectable. He could hardly have done worse than Howard and Cameron. The crisis that is about to engulf us comes from the EU. Cameron on his record since becoming PM, has proved himself unable to stand up to this monstrous and wealth destroying, oppressive and totalitarian, Construct; which is today slowly consuming itself and the wealth of its membership, to no point!

The founding by IDS of the Centre for Social Justice and his work as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions add tremendously to this upright man's political qualifications for leading the nation, where the pain will inevitably initially be felt most strongly by the poorer members of society!

This post also appears on Ironies Too, prepared during David Cameron’s Press conference at 10:20 am 8th July, 2011. It will eventually be repeated on Orphans of Liberty.

Cameron's EU Interview with the Spectator.

The Conservative Home web site has a report of an interview between David Cameron and The Speccie, linked here. I particularly laughed over the following quotes:

DC.....To them the euro is absolutely central to their vision of their membership of Europe — and they will, I think, do pretty much anything to make that work.’"

A bit like Cameron & Andy Coulson in shameless pursuit of election, or indeed, of the News of the World under Coulson's editorship in pursuit of a story!

How about this opening from the man whose Government has automatically rubber-stamped more EU powers into the UK Law, than ever previously witnessed:

"‘No one in Britain, however sceptical they are about the euro — and they don’t come much more sceptical than me —....'"

But wait, the worst comes at the end of thepiece on the craven Conservative Home blog's posting:

Or, as he puts it in a slow and deliberate way, ‘There will be opportunities for Britain to maximise what we want in terms of our engagement with Europe.’"

Yeah! Like being out of the EPP by Christmas, or giving the people a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. This man is a perfect specimen of "News International Man" and to coin a phrase " - they don't come much lower than that - "

Or, on second thoughts, perhaps they do - as Rebekah has still not resigned!

Boris Johnson sets sights on Tory Leadership!

Two top headlines from the The Mail Online this morning that should shame every Tory in the land:


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Cameron damned by faint praise!

There is an excruciatingly awful article in something called the Comment Section of the Conservative Home Blog today, by somebody called Phil Goodman, it has paragraph after paragraph extolling the virtues of our lying Prime Minister (can he and Osborne keep the facts concealed over the EFSF as the 2nd May anniversary nears and Greece defaults, one wonders) but it ends with this final sentence with which the author clearly confesses that all written before is just so much hot air:

But if AV falls, Cameron isn't short of time to improve his relationship with his Party over time: after all, he has a full five year term, if the Government lasts.

I have written on the BBC and the Tory lies on Ironies Too this afternoon, linked here. Also in CH comments Ruth Lea again pleas for an EU Referendum, has she not noticed there are no Tories left at Conservative Home, they are out, as will soon be their Government!

Happy Birthday to Norman Tebbit

Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail, says it all really, a sample:

Had history taken a different turn, this would still be a proper country. If the IRA hadn’t blown up the Grand Hotel in Brighton, crippling Tebbit’s wife Margaret, he would have succeeded the Iron Lady and Britain today would be a proud, independent nation, not a two-bob Ruritanian province of Brussels.

How can Government Spending Cuts hinder Volunteering?

There was an extraordinary item kicking off BBC Radio 4 news bulletins early this morning. Reuters reports it rather differently here.

This Headless woman, who was interviewed on the Today radio programme, seems to have no concept as to what a volunteer actually is!  Her (so-called Charity, note the giveaway EU flag on their website) would seem an ideal target for having her complete ignorance of what she purports to promote publicly, namely volunteering, fully exposed.

According to the Articles of Association (read here in PDF) of the supposed charity, their accounts must be supplied within two months of receipt of a request upon payment of their costs.  Members seem due a whole string of potential benefits while restricting their liabilty to £1, somebody with time on their hands or a professional journalist's job might wish to look further into this outfit.

Update 9/2/11 Fake Charities blog covers this particular con and also carries this telling quote from Guido:

A charity that relies in the main part on taxes is no more a charity than a prostitute is your girlfriend.

- Guido Fawkes

Cameron at Davos - Lists why the UK should quit the EU!

Here is a section the British Prime Minister's speech of this morning:

Now, there are some who say that slow-growth status for Europe is inevitable.
They are the pessimists – and this is their charter.

• One – we in Europe are incapable of solving our debt and deficit problems.
• Two – we’re unable to compete with dynamic economies because we’ll always be over-burdened with regulation and bureaucracy.
• Three – we’re hardwired to be consumers and not producers.
• And four – we’re attached to liberal values that are leaving us far behind the juggernaut of authoritarian capitalism.

Today, I want to make the case for optimism – for confidence in our future. We can overcome these problems but we do need a change of direction. Huge deficits don’t just fall out of the sky.

There is absolutely zero chance of the EUabandoning any of those four quoted reasons which will continue to lead to poverty for all Europeans in a non-democratic authoritarian nightmare. Yet late in his speech Cameron states:

But above all what we urgently need in Europe is an aggressive, pan-continental drive to unleash enterprise.

Cameron knows he will never get that, indeed he was elected to lead his party precisely because he assured his party members that he accepted that fact and PROMISED a referendum, the end result of which would have been a certain UK exit from the bureaucratic nightmare the EU has become.

As the world economy falls to pieces, why should the UK seek its own way out when tied to this non-democratic juggernaut while ignoring older friends across the world? At least President Sarkozy's speech the day before (video on Ironies Too) addressed the real issues!

"Dare I say it?" Not if you are a real leader!

David Cameron was at his slippery slimiest best on the Andrew Marr show yesterday, read the transcript from here. One phrase in particual makes absolutely plain that he is completely clueless about the purpose and point of the Prime Ministerial office he supposedly fills, it was this:

Now there is a lot of room for local authorities to share back office costs, to cut out bureaucracy, to stop waste, to stop doing some things that weren't adding value. All organisations have to do that. Dare I say it, even the BBC has to do it.


A dowager duchess at a select dinner party might preface a sentence with "Dare I say it" a Prime Minister, responsible for the governance of a nation can only appear as an effete and useless fop when using such a phrase.

Bernard Ingham wrote on Heseltine's 1986 resignation from the Cabinet earlier this week in the Yorkshire Post, linked here. Those who like me believe that the whole Heseltine saga is all part of a wider EU plot, and that the former Tarzan's huge elevation by Cameron has the potential to collapse the entire coalition should read the article in full. Others may rest content with Thatcher's former Press Sectretary's concluding paragraphs, quoted here:

So what was it all about? Did the flamboyant Heseltine spontaneously combust with frustration? Did he calculate that Thatcher was so weak – or could be so weakened after the "leak"– that she could be toppled just when the economy was coming right? Or, with an eye to the future, was he seeking martyrdom on the cross of Europe by an overbearing PM who "denied free discussion"?

These are nice questions. Tarzan, as he was called, is more complex than he looks. He cannot evade the charge of premeditation because he managed to cobble together a 20-minute 2,500-word press statement soon after his resignation. And who was instrumental eventually in bringing Thatcher down? Why, Heseltine at the prompting of another Eurofanatic, Sir Geoffrey Howe. And what was then the issue? Why, Europe – just like the Westland affair.

Cameron beware, lumbered as you are with a mainly Eurosceptic Conservative Party and Europhile Liberal Democrats. Europe haunted Thatcher and Major and tore at New Labour. It will try to sink its teeth into you, too. It dogs all governments.

Cameron's puppeteer finally comes out

The Wall Street Journal covers the emergence of Michael Heseltine from the shadows, read here.

Ever since the vapid, two-faced shyster Cameron emerged into the limelight of the upper echelons of the treacherous Tory party it was perfectly obvious that somebody far more senior and well-connected within Europe must be pulling his strings. This blog has hinted long and often that it was none other than the man who unseated Maggie Thatcher and took the reins from the traitor Edward Heath in driving our democracy to destruction. Three images show Heseltine's true colours, here with Blair and Clarke for Open Europe, here with his puppet and presently PM and here most fittingly dressed up as a soldier!

I emphasise the significance of the latter picture as only those of us who suffered the misfortune of being educated indoctrinated for any time in the boarding schools of Britain's public school system will recognise that the most sadistic and worthless of our contempories tended to rise to the upper ranks of their often compulsory cadet forces! The actual image of Heseltine, complete with swagger stick, that I recall as being so typical I cannot trace this morning but I will place it here if I come across it.

So the Conservative Party must this morning accept that it has been completely duped. Happily next Tuesday the perty can kick out the EU Bill sending Cameron and Heseltine to oblivion shortly thereafter, if they fail so to do than the voters of Oldham can show their own disgust accordingly.

Cameron's private hopes for LibDem victory

Such is the headline to an FT report just filed from George Parker in Oldham. He claims that in spite of the Tories having been only 2,500 votes behind the victorious and lying Labour candidate Phil Woolas at the May 2010 General Election, Cameron and his aides are privately hoping for a morale boosting victory by the LibDem candidate next Thursday.

Now there's a thing, a Tory PM and party leader hoping to be defeated by a LibDem!

David Cameron should pay his £300,000 inheritance windfall back to the taxpayers!

The Daily Mail reports that Britain's Prime Minister has received a tax free inheritance of three hundred thousand pounds. Read the full report from here.

On this blog on 10th February 2010 the fact that Cameron had manipulated his mortgages seemingly to optimize his MP expense claims, again as reported by the Daily Mail, linked here, was commented upon by this blog, read here.

It was only recently, on 12th November 2010, that this blog noted Cameron's father had been in receipt of a  typical annual payment from the EU for £247,000.

As the money forming this inheritance comes via his father, would it not seem reasonable in view of the many payments received by the pair from the public purse, for the Prime Minister to transfer this £300,000 back to the treasury to ease the austerity which Cameron claims we must all collectively suffer?

Tories not trying in Oldham?

No Comment to this image from EU Observer linked here.

A Mainstream Tory Revolt at Long Last!

Read the article by Melissa Kite in the Sunday Telegraph, linked here.

Fifa exposes all Cameron's flaws and frailties!

The failed bid by England for the football world cup enthusiastically backed by David Cameron who ludicrously travelled backwards and forwards to Zurich for this well deserved trashing either side of PMQ when he made the following, now quite hilarious, assertions:

Q2. [27559] Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con): The Prime Minister explained how he is shuttling between London and Zurich in support of England's World cup bid. Can he update the House on how that bid is progressing, please?
The Prime Minister: I am grateful for that question. England 2018 has a very strong bid. With regard to the technical aspects, we have the stadiums, the facilities and the transport networks. We have the enthusiasm in our country for football and we can put on an absolutely first-class World cup. I know that many people will ask, "Are you spending too much time on something that might not succeed?" I would say, "If you don't get on to the pitch, you have no chance of winning." We should all get behind the bid.

Arrogance is the hallmark of the statement and the resultant total failure, behind it also lies obvious lack of proper planning, inability to realistically appraise the opportunities for succes (England, after all, gained only one outside vote), failure to gain the necessary intelligence on those upon whose votes your success depended and finally a complete ignorance of reality even at the moment immediately ahead of your certain humiliation.

It is on this same basis that Cameron and his small clique of big-headed bullies now govern the country and run the economy, only blind idiots could be so unaware of the nation's truly crippled financial straits that they would feel able to throw away billions of pounds in wasted aid to Ireland at such a point of history.