Things Can Only Get Better

A Populus Poll in The Times (6th October) notes that a large majority of voters don’t believe that the Conservative Party under David (“Dave”) Cameron has really changed merely that they are doing well because of the fact that New Labour is so chronically unpopular.

The Poll shows that only 28% of voters think that the party really seems to have changed under Mr Cameron (a man who openly admires Tony Blair in the same way that Blair openly admired Mrs. Thatcher) and “that is why they are doing so much better”. No change from one year ago.

According to the Poll some 68% believe that the party does not seem to have changed much under Mr Cameron and is only doing better “mainly just because the Labour Government has become so unpopular”. This is down two points on last year.

Despite all the spin, the ‘green tinge’ and sharp suits, the Tories are still at their core the same party that messed up the economy in the early 1990’s, the same party that privatised the energy companies and the same party that led the dash for gas.

And forget any idea that the Tories are historically good on defence, our troops were buying their own boots and rucksacks before the Falklands War took place – so nothing has changed there, even under New Labour. The Tories are still the same Party that began the rundown of the armed forces with ‘Options for Change’ in 1989 a policy followed by New Labour under Blair and Brown.

The Tories broke up and privatised British Rail, and damaged the NHS; they are still same party that destroyed the mining industry, weakened our manufacturing sector and at the same time they are the party that used the various questionable privatisations to help to line the pockets of their chums in the City, and enough of them managed to line up nice well paid jobs in the private sector for at their service in Government – all at our expense.

It’s also worth remembering that the Tories had 18 years to reform the education system (and failed), they had 18 years to rebuild the UK armed forces (and failed) and 18 years to make the NHS more efficient (and failed) – now we have had 12 years of New Labour failure on the same issues – so why on earth should we vote for more of the same…

Oh Yes - it’s also worth remembering that Tories managed to make themselves in the eyes of ordinary electors unelectable and corrupt (what with members of the governing party actually being charged, convicted and imprisoned, not to mention the brown envelopes, the insider dealing, etc) in 18 years, New Labour (under Blair and Brown) has managed it in 12 years which is in a depressing kind of way quite impressive…