The Labour Party’s meltdown at the polls makes the Tories decision to vote for an immature, ersatz Conservative as leader all the more tragic.

The Conservative Party will pay a heavy price for losing its nerve.

It didn’t need to apologise for being Conservative by voting for Call Me Dave. A proper Conservative leader (David Davis, William Hague), who would cut taxes, reform health and education and start on the business of cutting government down to size, would have done even better in Britain’s local elections. If the public were offered a clear agenda of change, to build on Margaret Thatcher’s great reforming years, they would jump at it.

Instead, the Conservatives are led by two-bit PR man David Cameron, offering a childish, knee-jerk attitude to the environment; a man who hid his true views during the leadership election campaign. Any candidate, particularly a silver-spoon-in-the-mouth Old Etonian, who ran on a dump grammar schools, there’s nothing wrong with redistributing wealth, fiddle the candidate selection process to impose women, tax cuts don’t matter-platform, would not have even made the starting line-up.

Cameron’s silly husky hugging stunt in Norway, his grandstanding about the environment, ending with the ludicrous spectacle of him cycling to work, followed by a gas-guzzling limo with his stuff, just makes him look foolish. At least it underlines his superficial ways to those who hadn’t spotted it before.

The Labour party is melting down before our very eyes. When the next election campaign starts it will be impossible to mask the fact that Cameron is an apologist for Conservative values; a man likely to produce Blue Labour instead of New Labour.

The country is crying out for intelligent reform, and can’t wait to see the demise of the mental crooks from the Labour party. What a pity that instead of being able to start on practical solutions for the great problems of Britain, the Tories will have saddled themselves with Cameron, and his coterie of apologists and hand wringers like Francis Maude, Theresa May, Caroline Spellman and Oliver Letwin.

Surely the Conservative party has enough maturity and bottle to rectify this problem before it becomes a festering boil. Britain needs an intelligent and brave new government. Dave stands in the way. Need I say more?

Mass Postal Voting Must Be Stopped
It is only a matter of time before we start hearing reports of voting fraud in the local elections because of the corrupt curse of extended postal voting.

Postal voting should only be allowed for the genuinely infirm and crippled. The act of voting requires that each citizen takes part in the election campaign from beginning to end; then goes to the polls. It is not possible for a responsible citizen to cast a sensible vote before the campaign has been completed. On those grounds alone, the case against postal voting is powerful. Just think of those voters in Spain who might have voted before the Islamist bombing outrage, and the government’s less than impressive response? Imagine having voted Labour just before Neil Kinnock made his Sheffield yobbo speech?

Leaving aside the possibility of fraud, when voting papers arrive at households which, to put it kindly, have a more medieval approach to women, there is the possibility of force being used behind closed doors.

Postal voting should be a generous attempt to make sure that a tiny amount of our citizens who are not blessed with robust health can vote. Anything more taints the system.

License New Islam In Britain
The case of September 11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. jury, should remind us that action needs to be taken in our country to put a stop to militant, traditional Islam.

We are told that Moussaoui came under the influence of extreme Islamists during his stay in London. This should remind us that despite pleas to the contrary, the Koran is full of potentially corrupting material which the deranged used to justify their cruel and bestial acts of terrorism.

If Islam is to be practised in Britain, our government must insist that it is purged of medieval content, which is often alien to our own hard-won democracy and values. The government needs to insist on a revised, modern Koran, perhaps along the lines of the New Testament. All Islamist organisations which sign up to this modernised text will be allowed to practise their religion. Those which don’t will not be allowed to operate. The New Koran will include reforms like –

·      “Honour” killing is banned
·      It is ok to pay interest
·      End teaching that women are inferior to men, ban the Hibab
·      Stop forced marriages
·      Embrace democracy and equality for all before the law
·      Accept the division of church and state
·      Stop anti-Semitism

There’s plenty more, but that would be a start.

Maybe the BBC Has Started Listening
I predicted last week, that although I had no idea how the local elections would go, one thing was sure, the BBC would continue with its brainless description of the British National Party as extreme right-wing. The BNP is a classic socialist/fascist party, seeking big-government solutions to problems, anti-free trade and against capitalism, NATO, and the like.

To my amazement, I haven’t detected the BBC falling into this trap as yet.

Can it be that the BBC has started listening? Lord Tebbit has been making this point in a high profile way. What a scary world it would be if the BBC biggies had actually sat down and said “Yes. These people are right. The BNP isn’t right wing. Stop calling it that forthwith”.

A BBC that listens to its audience, and reacts in an intelligent, principled, transparent way? Surely some mistake.

Good Luck Steve McClaren
It is great news that we will finally have an Englishman to coach our heroes after Sven leaves. I’ve never understood the logic of having a foreigner leading an organisation that is purely a national manifestation. You’d be laughed off stage if you suggested that Ronaldhino should play for England, so how could you justify a foreigner managing it?

But all this fuss about England’s manager leaves me baffled. A top manager like Chelsea’s Morinho or Arsenal’s Wenger needs formidable talents. He must spend huge sums on the best players he can find. The best players are by definition going to be thin on the ground. This is a time consuming and delicate process. But managing the national team surely doesn’t come close in terms of talent required. You have a free pick of all the best players available. Moulding them into a team might pose a problem or two, but surely it wouldn’t be a full time job.

Why not award the England manager’s job to the manager of the team finishing highest in the premiership, as long as he’s English? This man would know all the best players around from his working experience. Taking a few days off before England games shouldn’t be too difficult. And the FA would save at least £2 million a year.

And while I’m on football; could the powers that be end the corrupt, mindless practice of trying to pretend the 3rd division is the 1st. Let’s call the leagues what they are. The Premiership is Division 1, the Coca-Cola Championship is Division 2, and the next one is Division 3 etc. 

 Neil Winton – May 7, 2006  

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