If anyone listened to World at One they will have heard Ali Miraj not denying that he asked for a peerage recently and then claiming he is being smeared (see here for backgrund). However, what was worse was to then listen to, if I heard it correctly, the Chairwoman of Newark Conservative Association, Sheelagh Hamilton.
Besides the fact that the woman sounds like exactly the sort of posh Tory that everyone loves to hate. She bizarrely started talking about how brilliant Gordon Brown was, and that he has gravitas and is doing a great job.
On Sunday, David Davis said that Cameron "has passed his first test. Now the party must pass its first test, and that is a test of discipline." Ali Miraj and Sheelagh Hamilton (if I heard it right) just failed.
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Too true
There are some useless gits in the party - do they want to win the next General Election or not?
The sooner that Ali Miraj is thrown out on his ear the better. Ditto that idiot Graham Brady.
No, you got it spot on Dizzy. I do not know Sheelagh Hamilton personally, but I do believe she has it in for David Cameron over the Patrick Mercer affair.
She was scathing at the time and she is now a useful contact in the journalist's address book every time they want to roll out a Tory who sounds reasonable while undermining the leader.
EML - You have the courage to say what I have been fearing all along. Will the Conservatives ruin it for themselves? I hope not.
My solution is a few classes on the history of the Conservative Party. Cameron is doing well to adapt to the day just as many of his predecessors have. I would hate to see a repeat of the early 1990s with a divided party.
I think many don't want the Tories bakc in, preferring their ideological highground. It seems as if we are still in our 1983 labour moment.
Jesus, what are these Newark Tories doing? Get her out as soon as possible!
But how contemptible of the BBC to run this story all day and say (with a smirke) "Internal rows in the Tory party have overshadowed the launch of their policy on Discipline in Schools.
Miraj is clearly just a bad loser, who thinks he should automatically be given a place in Parliament. However, as for the rest, good on'em.
To answer you eml, if Cameron is the leader, no, I do not want to win the next election. I want a Conservative leader. Not some wishy-washy lefty Blair wannabe, who will happily embrace any left-wing nonsense if he thinks it will get him a vote.
A win for Cameron would just encourage this tosh - and the Heathite element of the party he leads.
You mean you want a neo-liberal like Thatcher right?
"...the Heathite element of the party he leads." Good Lord - that really is tosh!
Thank the Lord for blogs. Even though university is over I can still have a good debate.
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