May 6th will decide if we have to endure a nightmare five more years of bad government high on debt and addicted to bullying, centralising, nannying interference – or if we make a fresh start.
There is only one choice – Brown or Cameron in No.10 on 7th May. I have no doubt which of these has what it takes to get Britain out of the hole Gordon Brown has dug for us. It is not Mr. Brown. The problem cannot be the solution. When your house is on fire it is not the arsonist you call. So don’t dial X for Brown on 6th May!
People tell me David Cameron is too much a man of the centre ground. So he is. I make no apology for that. But he is also a Conservative. His instincts, and ours, are the natural conservative instincts of the British people – for family, a smaller state, the rule of law, traditional teaching, paying down debt, reducing immigration, protecting the countryside, cutting welfare dependency, returning power back to local people, to professionals on the ground and the ‘small battalions’ everywhere. What is more, as we saw in the last few days, even in the face of the yawning maw of Brown’s debt, our instinct will be to reduce tax on low and middle income and help business and jobs grow when and where we can.
We will work to win and deserve to win not just because this Labour Government is bad – though it is truly, truly dreadful – but because David Cameron’s analysis of the ‘broken society’ is a compelling and challenging image of what has gone so wrong after years of crazed and wasteful public spending, progressive tampering with teaching in our schools, constant state meddling in our lives, the growth of inter-generational welfarism and the junking of old values and ideas. We can’t go on like this.
It will be an immense task to put together the pieces. But David Cameron can and will do it, by drawing deep on old-fashioned Conservative commonsense and the goodwill and spirit of people of all parties and none in our country who want to save our country from ruin. He has the will, toughness, policies and values to do it.
Gordon Brown has ransacked our pensions, sold our gold reserves, invented more taxes than anyone in history, debauched the treasury and mortgaged our future, piling debt beyond belief on our children and grandchildren. It will take great sacrifice to win back that future for our children, all too many of whom languish among the highest toll of youth unemployment in Europe. We owe it to them to roll our sleeves up and get on with the job of winning back the future that New Labour are stealing from us all.
( 9 comments ) Tags: Big Society, Europe, gold reserves, Gordon Brown, pensions, youth unemployment
Comment by Ross Gow on April 21, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Indeed. Brown has been wholly catastrophic for thiscountry and a vote for Clegg is totally pointless, unless you actually want:
- 58,000 criminals let out of jail to serve their sentences in the comfort of their own home
- an amnesty for all illegal immigrants and unrestricted immigration
- Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
- no Nuclear, Gas or Coal fired technology
- legalised drug-taking
- our troops out of Afhganistan
- loss of the ‘special relationship’
It’s a no-brainer. Vote Conservative.
Comment by Bill Fox on April 21, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Great article and not a single mention of the Lib Dems, this is more like it!
Comment by Bill Pearson on April 21, 2010 at 7:55 pm
David
Why not change tack and suggest that the Lib Dems would make an excellent Official Opposition instead of Labour. Suggest that they will bring a fresh challenge and will improve the Democratic process. Use this as a lever to switch Labour votes to Liberals while continuing to issue the rallying cry to your core vote. You then don’t have to ‘agree with Nick’ but you will be being positive.
Bill
Comment by Steve Willis on April 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm
If Clegg won’t say which party he’ll support in the event of a hung Parliament, there’s no point in voting Liberal Democrat because you may get someone you don’t want.
I’m surprised nobody in the Conservative Front Bench has made this attack point. It totally bursts the Clegg Bubble!
Comment by Graham Bond on April 22, 2010 at 8:44 am
A vote for the conservatives will mean that at least we do not get watered down wooley polices.
the lib dem policieson defence and cutting tax relief on pension will damage this country for decades
Comment by C Rowley on April 23, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Gordon Brown has just said “It’s no time for a novice”. He’s obviously never heard of Maggie !
Comment by Quin on April 30, 2010 at 6:00 pm
That certainly spells out pretty much how I think – but assuming the British electorate sticks to its guns and doesn’t let spoiler Clegg get in the way, don’t you DARE let us down!
In my opinion David Cameron is the UK’s last, best hope!
Comment by Y Rhyfelwr Dewr on May 3, 2010 at 8:21 am
I am voting Conservative, and that’s not something you normally expect to hear in the south Welsh valleys.
I like the Big Society and can only hope it will be enough to pull the people of this country out of their feckless dependency on the state.
I like the Conservatives’ plans for devolving power to the people, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why anybody would be opposed to this. But as controlling and interfering as the EU is, I can’t help feeling that sooner or later, a local community will come into conflict with the EU. I should have liked to hear Cameron discuss which side he would support in such a situation.
That much said, the sovereignty bill and devolution strike me as the most powerful guarantee against future European encroachment.
Given the way Labour has undermined our civil liberties so monstrously these last 13 years — freedom of speech, freedom to dissent, freedom of conscience, trial by jury, habeas coropus have all been undermined grievously — I’d like to hear Cameron commit to repairing them. It is ridiculous that a man can be arrested or sacked for articulating his religious beliefs, a situation that hasn’t existed in this country in centuries.
With a fifteen-month old daughter, I am intensely interested in reforming our pathetic school system, which churns out people who, after 11 years of completely free schooling, can’t even spell or use an apostrophe properly, never mind know what happened in 1066.
Best of all, CAMERON ISN’T BROWN!!!!! Five more years of that intolerable man, and we’ll all be living in caves again.
Comment by Danny on February 22, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Before criticising people who, and I quote, “after 11 years of completely free schooling, can’t even spell or use an apostrophe properly” why not do that yourself. I’m sure it would boost confidence in the Conservative party if they could use correct spelling/grammar, and at least ‘spell check’ as a bare minimum before posting.