Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Too conservative?
Pedro45 is defintely not a Tory, so I don't want to blemish this blog with political ramblings about the going nowhere party too much. I will just post a little something about the election of a new Conservative Party leader though.
I will find it absolutley astonishing if old fogies like Kenneth Clark or Michael Ankram get elected as leader. Both are dinosaurs from the Thatcher years, a period of Governmental history that has become remembered but despised by Britons. If either gets to be leader, then this Tory party will form no part of any government in this country for many a year, and the Liberal Democrats will be re-joicing in the streets. They (the Lib Dems) will almost certainly then become the main opposition party, for the first time in about 80 years!
A country thrives on competition, but there has been so little competition on a political level for the past ten years that this country is suffering a little. I'd much rather have a Labour government with a 40-seat majority than one with 140-seats more than the others combined. However, I'd rather have a Labour party in power with any majority than a governemnt formed by any other party at all.
Unless the Tories, or Lib Dems get their acts together soon, then the new Gordon Brown prime ministerial era (coming to a TV screen near you in a year or so...) will be a very long running one.
I will find it absolutley astonishing if old fogies like Kenneth Clark or Michael Ankram get elected as leader. Both are dinosaurs from the Thatcher years, a period of Governmental history that has become remembered but despised by Britons. If either gets to be leader, then this Tory party will form no part of any government in this country for many a year, and the Liberal Democrats will be re-joicing in the streets. They (the Lib Dems) will almost certainly then become the main opposition party, for the first time in about 80 years!
A country thrives on competition, but there has been so little competition on a political level for the past ten years that this country is suffering a little. I'd much rather have a Labour government with a 40-seat majority than one with 140-seats more than the others combined. However, I'd rather have a Labour party in power with any majority than a governemnt formed by any other party at all.
Unless the Tories, or Lib Dems get their acts together soon, then the new Gordon Brown prime ministerial era (coming to a TV screen near you in a year or so...) will be a very long running one.
