I considered Michael Howard an acceptable Conservative leader, it was only after Cameron took the helm that I lost all confidence in the party. However, they would have to become Powellesque to lure me back now.
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"Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see. "
Enoch Powell
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