It is rumoured that some Conservative MPs are going to refuse to campaign against Douglas Carswell. If theirs were a properly run party, then it would kick out anyone who said things like that.
Thatcher certainly would have done. The friends of Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, say.
Major would have kicked out anyone who had said that they were not going to campaign against Emma Nicholson, Peter Temple-Morris, Alan Howarth or Hugh Dykes. Or against George Gardiner, come to that.
Anyone promising not to campaign against Shaun Woodward or Bob Spink would also have received short shrift.
Likewise, if UKIP were a properly run party, then the Roger Lord situation would never have arisen.
Nor would Lord be on the brink of being the Conservative candidate if either party were anything other than a complete and utter shambles.
It would be truly wonderful if it really ended.
ReplyDeleteAs Peter Hitchens has always argued, it's our only chance of creating a real conservative party.
Pro marriage, pro education and pro constitution, anti crime anti EU, anti immigration and anti political correctness.
UKIP knows what it's purpose is, and so does Peter.
We have no ambitions to win office for ourselves.
Our ambitions are much higher than that.
If Carswell's published views are UKIP policy, than it has almost nothing in common with Hitchens.
DeleteThe whole of the Hard and Far Left, for example, also wants to withdraw from the EU.
In fact, the SLP, the Morning Star and others also uncomplicatedly want to renationalise the railways and the utilities, and rebuild council housing, just as Hitchens does.
A long, long, long way from The Plan.