Foreign, Indeed

I remain thoroughly unconvinced that Cameron is going to win. We are still talking about practically a year and a half from now. By then, the crescendo of derision from the Telegraph and Mail papers will be deafening; Blair faced nothing similar from the Guardian in the run-up to 1997 except on the letters page. And that is before we mention the constituency map.

But suppose, just suppose, that Cameron did win. The Dick Cheney Appreciation Society that surrounds him would then have control of this country’s foreign policy. That policy would be run from the Washington and New York offices of clapped-out think tanks from the Bush years.

They would not be running America. They would not be restored to running Australia, or Spain, or Portugal. They would no longer, by then, be running France, or Italy, or Germany. Not really, anyway. But they would suddenly find themselves, and we would suddenly find them, running Britain again.

A foreign policy run by and for foreigners, and, moreover, foreigners who will mercifully never again be permitted anywhere near anything important in their own country. How conservative is that? How Tory?

Don’t let it happen.