Tories Table-Banging

With their heads? They are staggeringly easily pleased. What, exactly, has Cameron “vetoed”? What, exactly, is not happening that otherwise would have done? What?

I am very glad that we are out of the criminalisation of fiscal expansion, although I do not know why many of them are. But we have stayed out for a perfectly contemptible reason (to keep Wall Street’s tax haven on our soil, exposing the fact that that is what bankrolls the allegedly patriotic Conservative Party) instead of any of the good ones. And it is not as if our having stayed out has made the blindest bit of difference. Why would it?

Cameron has just told this meeting that the Coalition will carry on after 2015. No surprise there, of course. Everyone knows that no Conservative will be put up against any incumbent Lib Dem. “Conservative and Liberal Democrat” candidates will be the “Conservative and National Liberal” or “Conservative and Liberal Unionist” candidates of the twenty-first century.

But with no reciprocation. On the contrary, there are at least 81 Conservatives whom Cameron actively wants the Lib Dems to unseat, if they have not been pensioned off or had their prospects ruined by the boundary changes. For example, David Davis’s seat has been deliberately redrawn so that he will come third or below.