Cameron and the CFP

I’m indebted to a tweet for this one from James Delingpole.

Here’s the final paragraph: “I’m afraid it’s precisely this kind of spinelessness which explains why some of us find it so hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects of a Cameron administration.”

I mostly go along with JD, and this is no exception.

I’m a life-long Tory, and have, at heart, basic Tory principles such as small state, low tax, enterprise, freedom and liberty, encouragement of self-sufficiency and all that stuff. But with Cameron, I just don’t see it. Is he really a Tory? Is he hiding it all from us? I just see more and more fatuous nonsense like all-female short-lists, and content-free announcements of fluffy crap. AGW? I believe it’s tosh, but Cameron fully, uncritically and willingly embraces it. Where is he on tax? On social issues? On “Broken Britain”? There’s just no substance.

The EU? We all know about “cast iron” Dave now. As it happens, I think the EU is a far more serious problem for the UK than Blair’s bodged devolution, which, let’s face it, landed a serious blow which may yet prove fatal, and especially more serious than global bloody warming. There is not a clue from Dave or his team as to what they will do about the EU with its new Lisbon Treaty.

What about George Osborne? Is he really good enough? I don’t think so.

My local Tory PPC (Ben Gummer) is excellent. I believe he will be a really good local MP, and has, even as PPC, done more for the town that the utterly useless lobby-fodder Chris Mole we currently “enjoy”. I want to vote for Ben because of that, and I want to vote for him because he’s a Tory. But I just don’t think I can. I don’t approve of Cameron or of the few definitive statements he’s made. There’s a lot of thinking to be done twixt here and the election…