Friday 6 March 2015

Beyond The Empty Chair

As of today, the position of Prime Minister is effectively vacant. Cameron's humiliation is complete.

The empty chair, and possibly even silences where he would have spoken, are about to be broadcast to more than 20 million viewing voters. Obscure backbench rebels have been taking to Radio Four to offer to stand in for him.

Speaking of Radio Four, it is always good to hear Ian Davidson. It was especially good to hear Ian Davidson on today's World at One.

There is absolutely no suggestion of a coalition, or even of a confidence and supply arrangement, with the SNP and with its vile, vicious activists on the streets and on the Internet.

Davidson is opposed to Trident, as are three quarters of Labour's candidates at this Election. No one needs the SNP for that.

The SNP passed four Holyrood Budgets on the votes of the Conservatives against Labour. The SNP was until very recently engaged in a race to the bottom on corporation tax, something of which we have by no means necessarily heard the last.

The SNP was elected on an ultra-Thatcherite policy of a centrally imposed freeze on Council Tax, which is only one step away from nationalising the setting of Council Tax as Thatcher nationalised the setting of Business Rates.

In 1979, after the SNP had brought down a Labour Government, Thatcher's majority of 44 was provided by Scotland, where her party won 22 seats.

In any case, there is not going to be a hung Parliament.

1 comment:

  1. As with Jimmy Carter the "empty" chair will be a contributory factor to Tory defeat and Cameron's downfall. Although not a Conservative objectively Cameron was a competent but not great PM and competent Tory leader, but the "empty chair" and his bizarre resurrection of the irrelevance of hunting with hounds shows that I may be wrong even in that assessment.

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