“some public-school educated Tories think a school system which produces a poorly educated underclass leaves their own class a free run at the top jobs” 

    David Cameron won the Leadership of the Conservative Party by false pretences. Let’s make no bones about it – he lied.

    He ran as a “Compassionate” Conservative, invoking associations with U.S. president George W Bush. But his actions since being elected show he is not the candidate that he appeared to be. There is no escaping this unpleasant fact.

    Cameron must be removed forthwith, immediately, now.

    Pay no attention to the media’s insistence that Cameron is a breath of fresh air in the party providing a welcome new way of looking at problems. This man is shocking the members, who are leaving in droves, betrayed by Cameron.

    If he’d run for the leadership espousing the policies he has since embraced, he would have gone down in flames.

    If you doubt me, this is what Cameron said on the Andrew Marr BBCTV Sunday show on January 15. He said that during last year’s campaign for the leadership he made it absolutely clear that he was against grammar schools.

    “Well I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. All the way through the leadership campaign I made absolutely clear I did not want a return to the 11-plus, I did not want a return to grammar schools across the country,” Cameron said.

    That’s news to me.

    Anyone who paid any attention to the campaign between David Davis and Cameron will know this is a lie. Had he campaigned on an anti-grammar school platform, or anti-reform of the NHS, or redistribution of income, or hating conservatism, he would have been obliterated.

    Politically correct waffle
    Also, at the start of the interview Marr asked Cameron about his priorities. You couldn’t make it up, to coin a phrase. Cameron started off with some dross about getting more women and ethnic minority candidates elected. No passion and rage about Labour’s failures in health, pensions, transport, defence, Europe and the economy; only politically correct waffle from the temporary new leader.

    Sure, it will be embarrassing to have to admit that a huge majority of the Conservative Party membership were conned by this man. But the damage will only congeal and turn rancid if the party delays too long. If Cameron is allowed to continue, the Conservative Party faces meltdown, wipe-out, disaster.

    Consider what Cameron has done.

    Betrayed basic tenets
    He has rejected the most cherished tenets of Conservative philosophy, including the need for a smaller state, freedom for the individual, and lower taxes.

·      This privileged Old Etonian wants to end selection in education, the traditional, but dying, route for bright working class children out of poverty and under-achievement.

·      This inheritor of wealth embraced Labour’s solution for health care, which imprisons most of the population in a failing, state directed, incompetent monopoly. (Not him, of course.)

·      This man of the people, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, thinks all “isms”, including Conservatism, are outdated. He has turned his back on tax cuts.

·      This ignoramus thinks science is based on “consensus” and has accepted the Kyoto treaty on climate change, which will destroy western economies, and have no impact on climate.

·      Cameron has nothing to say on the pensions crisis induced by the incompetence and envy of Gordon Brown, or on unfair, counterproductive levies like inheritance tax and stamp duty.

    There is no doubt that if Cameron had run on this ticket, he would have been roundly defeated.

    It is not as though those on the losing side of the leadership election are indulging in sour grapes. When Iain Duncan Smith won, there were plenty of conservatives who were unhappy, but nobody thought for a moment that he’d won by skulduggery. 

    Conservatives enable, Socialists redistribute
    Oliver Letwin, another old-Etonian wouldn’t you know, has talked about redistribution of wealth. Letwin ought to know that conservatives traditionally want to enable the under-privileged to prosper, by improving education, and health, lowering taxes, and breaking down barriers to advancement. They don’t redistribute. Redistribution is theft from those who’ve worked hard and made a success of their lives.

    Conservatives want excellence in education and know that grammar schools have been the way to reach down the social scale and give working class children the possibility of a world class education. I recently heard Kenneth Clarke say on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions, that when he attended his first cabinet meeting with Margaret Thatcher, the room was jammed with people who owed their success to a grammar school education. If we listen to the likes of Cameron, this will never happen again.

    Keep the lower orders in their place
    Cameron’s most egregious, statement concerned education. No more selection under the Tories, said Cameron in speeches before the Andrew Marr programme. Cameron, who was born with what probably was a silver shovel in his mouth, wants to embrace Labour’s path to education, where the whole system is levelled down. Everyone gets equal but second-rate education, and the rich send their children to private schools. Some of the better off middle classes destroy their finances by sending their children to private school. The children of the poor end up being so poorly educated, the government has to fiddle the rules to get them into universities.

    So why did Cameron decide to betray the talented working class child? The Spectator magazine’s Ross Clark has an interesting theory. It would make sure his fellow old Etonians get the best jobs because it keeps the working classes in their place.

    “The tragedy of grammar schools is that not only have they been opposed by left-wing ideologues: they have long suffered from rather lukewarm support among public-school educated Tories, some of whom, one thinks, perhaps appreciate a school system which produces a poorly educated underclass, because it leaves their own class a free run at the top jobs,” Clark said.

    Level up, not down
    In health care, real conservatives should be finding ways of improving health services to the level of insurance based German, French, or American systems. The British system is outdated and failing. But Cameron is too cowardly to tackle this issue head on and said he was against any insurance based system.

    Real Tories don’t think this way. Cameron sees health as a non-win area for the Tories because Labour liars always say things like “The Tories want to privatise the NHS”. An honest party would accept that and say “You bet; in spades”. The NHS isn’t the wonderful, world class institution the Labour party says it is. The NHS is and always was a failure and based on paternalistic top-down ideas of the 1940s.

    “Moderniser” who’s stuck in the 1940s
    The electorate deserves the chance to debate this in a grown-up fashion with distinct choices. Cameron, who can’t stop telling us how keen he is to “modernise”, wants to retain this outdated system.

    It may well be that a majority of the nation agrees with Cameron’s “ideas”, even though I doubt it. But in the name of power at any price, Cameron has simply destroyed the Conservative Party as we know it. There is no point in winning power if you do it in the name of principles which run contrary to your philosophy. If Cameron really believes that the only route to power is by becoming an ersatz socialist, he should show some self-awareness, and join the Labour party. 

    Cameron must go and the sooner the better.