Country First.
TB understands that Conservative Future deputy chairman Christian May's weekly column over at
"There are many conservatives out there, including senior members of the conservative movement, who are delighted with the news that Gordon Brown is, for now, staying on as leader. Many speculate that David Cameron himself also breathed a sigh of relief when it looked like Brown had managed to survive Monday's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party. However, I for one do not take such a view. We must remember the cry, "Country before Party." Keeping Gordon Brown on as PM will certainly mean that the Labour Party will continue to flounder in the polls, but won't somebody please think of the country?"
Bang on in this bear's view. Putting the party before country is why Labour are set to be punished so horrendously at the next election. Check out the rest of the piece
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might make uncomfortable reading for some more senior Tories tomorrow. Here is a little juicy morsal to wet your appitites:"There are many conservatives out there, including senior members of the conservative movement, who are delighted with the news that Gordon Brown is, for now, staying on as leader. Many speculate that David Cameron himself also breathed a sigh of relief when it looked like Brown had managed to survive Monday's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party. However, I for one do not take such a view. We must remember the cry, "Country before Party." Keeping Gordon Brown on as PM will certainly mean that the Labour Party will continue to flounder in the polls, but won't somebody please think of the country?"
Bang on in this bear's view. Putting the party before country is why Labour are set to be punished so horrendously at the next election. Check out the rest of the piece
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Well that is a little short sighted, actually. The fact is that the best thing for this country is a Conservative government. The fact also is that the best way for us to get one is to keep Gordon in Number 10. At worst he has 10 months left, how much more damage can he realistically do?
Sure the next 10 months will be uncomfortable but in the end the greater good of the country will be served and cutting off the head and cauterizing the neck of New Labour.
Damage can be done in those 10 months by not taking the right steps towards recovery. Don't ever forget that people are voting Tory more to get Labour out than anything else.
At least if Purnell took over you'd have someone sympathetic to Cameron's aims.
Matt, I don't think it's short sighted. The best thing for the country is indeed a Conservative government, and I believe that an election now would return that. People have made their feelings clear by voting for minority parties in recent polls, but a Westminster election would be different.
I would argue that it is better to have a Conservative government with a stronger majority and more terms of office at the cost of 10 more months of this rabble. The worst of all worlds would be a weak Tory government ousted after one term because they lacked the necessary clout to push through reforms and cuts that we need.
Oh, I agree TB. Gordon's quantitative easing and spending plans will mire the country in debt for decade or more.
Worse still, if Labour's still in power by September and other EU countries ratify the treaty, it'll be a devil of a job to extricate ourselves from its measures.
Osborne noted today that the markets believe that the economy would do better under the Conservatives than under Labour. As such, wouldn't it be irresponsible of Labour to seek re-election? ;)
If the treaty is ratified while Brown's in office and if Cameron refuses unequivocally pledge to roll back the treaty, then you might find that UKIP popularity soars.
Faust: If UKIP popularity soars, then it would be somewhat of an own goal if that transferred to more UKIP votes on polling day since that would make a 4th term of Labour more likely.
Knut, I think people will vote tactically. They knew that the LibDems and Labour were for the Treaty and delivered their blows accordingly. Anything could happen between now and the GE.