Saturday 7 November 2009

Heir To Blair Already Two Seats Down

Gerald Warner writes:

Some very heartening news – a double whammy, in fact – for all British patriots keen to see Cast-Iron Dave Cameron and his Vichy Tories get their comeuppance. Both blows to Dave’s ambitions, though he may not even recognise them as such, have come from the distaff side of his party.

First of all, Julie Kirkbride, whom the electors of Bromsgrove thought they had scraped from their shoes, is trying to withdraw her commitment (well, why not, in a party led by Dave the EU-Turn – commitment/shmomitment?) not to stand again at the next election. Attagirl! Her chances look slim, but we must ardently hope she carries the Vichy Tory banner at the next general election, since that will guarantee one less seat for forsworn Dave and his cronies. They will have to weigh the votes for whoever stands against her.

Second encouraging sign: Elizabeth Truss, Dave’s vicar of Dibley on earth in South-West Norfolk, has given an interview to the Eastern Daily Press indicating she is still determinedly pursuing the local parliamentary candidature. Of the constituency association’s ignorance of her extra-marital affair when it selected her, she is quoted as saying: “I feel I was open and transparent in the process.”

The interviewer wondered if the row was due to the fact she is a woman – a frequently employed spin by her sponsors (“Is it cos Ah is female?). Well, it is certainly cos she is female that she has been given A-List preference and thrust upon South West Norfolk Conservatives by the enforcers at Wisteria Mansions. Her metropolitan supporters have also helpfully denominated the local Conservative grass roots the “Turnip Taliban”, which should be a real incentive to them to get the vote out – though not necessarily with a view to putting a cross beside the name Truss.

Both Truss and Kirkbride, in their respective constituencies, have slightly less promising prospects than Osama bin Laden in the Tel-Aviv mayoral race. So it seems almost too much to hope that they will succeed in being selected, thus reducing Dave’s putative majority by two seats. There is an incompetence about the Vichy Tories that suggests their ascendancy may be short-lived, which would be very good news for Conservatism and British patriotism.

I don’t know who thought that the Tories ever were Eurosceptics or social conservatives, but anyway. Until the Elizabeth Truss affair, so to speak, I had quite forgotten about those noisy undergraduate anti-monarchists at Lib Dem conferences in the Nineties. It seems that they have now slept their way onto the Cameron A-list. But who were they? Who are they? I suggest looking into those with a long history of being noisy, undergraduate, anti-monarchist, given to disrupting party conferences and similar events, and practitioners of entryism. Such are the people now running Westminster Village think tanks and being imposed on safe Tory seats. Truss is a Trot. Making Cameron, in imposing her as a parliamentary candidate, truly the Heir to Blair.

Both South-West Norfolk and Bromsgrove urgently need parliamentary candidates of any party or, far more probably, none who have an absolute commitment to the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, controlled importation and immigration, and a realistic foreign policy. And who have a no less absolute commitment to the Welfare State (including farm subsidies), workers’ rights, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation (not environmentalism), fair taxation, full employment, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, and a base of real property from which every household can resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

Where are they? Could one of them, dear reader, be you?

6 comments:

  1. Where are they? Could one of them, dear reader, be you?

    What exactly do people get out of joining the British People's Alliance?

    All the evidence suggests that it's a one-man-and-his-blog operation, the official website looks as though it was slapped together in five minutes (the "news" section is still stubbornly stuck at September 2008, as though nothing has happened since), and there seems to be no real organisation to speak of.

    So aside from boosting your own ego, what do candidates get out of the association? I trust you're at least underwriting their deposits?

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  2. "What exactly do people get out of joining the British People's Alliance?"

    You can't "join" it. That's not how it works. Look at the website.

    And it's certainly not about what people can "get out of it it"! How very New Labour, of all parties... You are exactly the sort of cancer that we need to cut out.

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  3. Bolt you're so avaricious you should stand for parliament.

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  4. What exactly are you doing for the cause, Bolt?

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  5. "Both Truss and Kirkbride, in their respective constituencies, have slightly less promising prospects than Osama bin Laden in the Tel-Aviv mayoral race."

    In a very tough field, this wins the prize for "most stupid sentence on this blog". Since you didn't write it, David, you should be delighted.

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  6. It's called hyperbole, dear.

    Or is it?

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