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PETER HITCHENS: Full of fake Tories, with the political grasp of a Teletubby | Mail Online

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PETER HITCHENS:
Full of fake Tories, with the political grasp of a Teletubby

Last updated at 6:36 PM on 04th October 2008

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David Cameron’s media bodyguard closed ranks around him last week, trying to
keep the truth about him from coming out.

Most of the exclusive club of political journalists decided some months ago that
they will now support the Tories and give Mr Cameron the uncritical adulation
they all gave to Princess Tony 11 years ago.

This is Mr Cameron’s reward for wiping out the last remaining traces of proper
conservatism in his party.

When he says he ‘gets the modern world’, Mr Cameron is signalling to these
people that he is one of them – relaxed about drugs, sexually liberal, opposed
to ideas like discipline and punishment.

This means that any speech he makes, however indifferent and dishonest, is
praised.

Well, I was at the Tory conference in Birmingham, and I endured Mr Cameron’s
allegedly superb speech – and what went before it – and I thought I might let
you know what was really going on.

I know a lot of you won’t like it. You harbour the illusion that a Cameron
government will be significantly different from a Brown or Blair government.

But you will like it even less when you find out that Mr Cameron, who plans to
be elected as New Labour, will govern as New Labour did, too. Then where will
you turn for help?

The warm-up act before Mr Cameron’s oration took the form of personal statements
by a series of Tory candidates.

First up was the comical figure of Louise Bagshawe, an author of trashy novels
who sported an AIDS awareness ribbon for her appearance.

No surprise there. Miss Bagshawe has the political grasp of a Teletubby and was
– like so many other Cameron fans – a supporter of the Labour Party in 1996.

A couple of others, to give you the flavour of the thing, wished us ‘Happy Eid’.

This was followed by two peculiar videos. One showed Shadow Cabinet members
toiling on some worthily soppy community project.

The other seemed to claim that the Tories – who devastated defence expenditure
the last time they controlled it – were in some way on the side of the Armed
Forces.

Then we had the man himself. His speech was in general a buttock-numbing affair,
and nearly went badly wrong when he talked about how he ‘slept with an
entrepreneur every night’.

Tories don’t like these Cherie Blair-type references to things they regard as
private. You could feel the discomfort in the hall, and Mr Cameron (realising he
was not in fashionable London) had to scrabble hard to recover.

He also made a number of references to God – one claiming that the Almighty
preferred Margaret Thatcher to Jim Callaghan – which would have jarred with any
seriously religious listener.

One does have to wonder if he actually understands the church services he has so
assiduously attended to help his daughter into an exclusive church primary
school.

Then there were the various claims that he wouldn’t put up with bad things in
our society.

He wouldn’t put up with examiners who gave marks for the f-word. How will he
change this? Does he think he will have the power to fire the legions of
examiners who think like this?

Where will this power come from? He has no real plans for school reform, only
the usual gimmicks.

He raged against the death of a woman, allegedly from MRSA.

What is his magic cure for MRSA? He has no right to make such claims. He is
raising hopes only to dash them.

He made his usual declaration of support for marriage, but combined it (as
usual) with a refusal to confront the fact that the State aggressively
subsidises single parenthood, and aggressively undermines marriage in immoral
sex-education programmes, and that as long as it does so, marriage will die.

Oh, and he also pretended to be ‘tough’ on the European Union. But the reality
is very different. Two Tory Euro-MPs who are genuinely critical of the EU last
week withdrew mysteriously from a fringe meeting where they would have been
speaking alongside people calling (rightly) for withdrawal from the EU.

In the Tory Party you can posture about Brussels, but in the end you must
support it, as Mr Cameron enthusiastically does.

You have been warned. Yes, the Tory Party is a Trojan Horse, but the soldiers
concealed within it are warriors of liberalism and political correctness.

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[quote=Tony Bennett;545306}
Oh, and he also pretended to be ‘tough’ on the European Union. But the reality
is very different. Two Tory Euro-MPs who are genuinely critical of the EU last
week withdrew mysteriously from a fringe meeting where they would have been
speaking alongside people calling (rightly) for withdrawal from the EU.
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Mr Hitchens just couldn't bring himself to use the F word!

Baron von Lotsov

Yes I was just about to post that article. It's rather scary; indeed it has had me worried all day so far. He's right and it's worse than I thought, even though I thought it was pretty bad anyway. Nu Labour have brainwashed everyone, they will still be in power whatever the next government. That's all they have done for the last 11 years, trained people in some hideous dribble that has left them completely stupid.

Wherever you go in this country it is the same, and how they have done it is to employ women, because women are less defensive and easier to control. Men have been left out of this world and especially anyone who does not follow the regime. Men who have become homosexual or generally woman-like though have still kept their jobs. It's pure communism and cannot be irradiated anything like as easily as the Tories think. Cameron is too soft and wishy-washy. He won't do a Thatcher; he has even let Nu Labour into his party and Muslims. If he didn't do that he would loose the next election since the problem is endemic. I guess that's why I support the UKIP, since the disease hasn't got that far yet. Some sanity in an ocean of madness.

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Gregory Lauder-Frost

The problem with the CONservative Party is that all their policies are knee-jerk policies. If they had stuck to original Tory philosophy and used it as a fundamental basis for their overall policies, people would know where they stand and what they stand for.

Having abandoned Tory ideals they have moved so far to The Left that they are indistinguishable from the Liberal Democrats and, some might say, New Labour. They now occupy the famous 'middle ground' which is just a swamp.

Baron von Lotsov

Indeed and that middle ground just keeps on shifting leftwards. You can understand how the scam works by taking a leaf from Einstein’s book. It's the political equivalent of the theory of relativity. Everyone around you appears to be stationary because we are all moving at the same speed. Ever closer to a European Soviet Union.

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