A BEACON OF BLUE…
By David Vance On May 5th, 2012Well then, turns out London will remain a beacon of Conservative blue rather than the “beacon for Islam” promised by Red Ken Livingstone. YES – as confidently predicted here some days ago Boris Johnson managed to buck the trend seen across the rest of Great Britain and retain the position of London Mayor for the Conservative Party. The question is – HOW?
London is a left leaning city, like most major capital cities yet it has elected a Conservative Mayor for a second term. Is this because unlike Cameron, Boris is untainted with toxic Lib-Dem associations? The Lib-Dem candidate, the posturing Brian Paddick, finished in FOURTH place in London, a remarkably bad performance which hopefully will see him off. Labour are benefiting from the collapse of the Lib-Dem vote and I am not remotely surprised. These liberals are a protest Party and the minute they formed the Coalition Government they had to make actual decisions which did not conform to their idylls. Half the sandal-wearing yogurt eating hippies that form the base will run a million miles from reality and so they flock to the utopian nonsense retailed by Labour.
But back to Boris. He won, and he won despite the biased media, and in particular the BBC, portraying him as a bumbling toff. The thing about Boris is that he has a genuine streak of Conservatism about him. He is the man who calls for more tax cuts – gasp, horror! He is the man who has insisted on a degree of genuine fiscal rectitude in the London budget – shock horror! Could the message be that when Conservatives detach themselves from Lib-Dems and act as Conservatives, they have more appeal?
Cameron thinks not. He seems determined to facilitate the Lib-Dem agenda of gay marriage and changing the House of Lords and to hell with the electoral consequences. Well, as he has seen, the consequences are a meltdown in his core support.
I was invited onto the BBC last night to discuss the low turnout (turns out they didn’t want me as I was saying the wrong thing) One of my points was that this odd hybrid Coalition which is neither one thing or another is turning voters off! They can’t be bothered to come out. I salute the 68% that DID NOT vote, although am glad that at least ONE Conservative did win.
Boris likes to play up to his image as an almost incoherent bumbler, but frankly, any man who could cope with a post like that AND get elected for a second term is no bumbler!
Hats off to Boris, and get your funeral suit out for NonCon Cameron. He has been exposed as a social democrat masquerading as a Tory.
There’s not a chance that local taxes will be cut in London, not the slightest chance. It won’t happen.
I wouldn’t rush to judgement in condemning Cameron as ‘liberal’, after all he does have a very difficult job in curing ‘the addiction with no shame’, – that of welfarism.
An addiction just as harmful as that mentioned in ‘Time to legalise drugs’ post.
NuLabour, as with any other group of dealers has enouraged the addiction, following the very true socialist adage that ‘addicts mean votes’, no longer is there any consideration for rational politics, – ‘a manifesto? – what’s that they cry, – they are for liars, and we are as honest as the day is long!, we don’t need no stinkin’ manifesto!’
Their sole aim is to be ‘voted into power’, whence the door to Tonyesc wealth miraculously opens, celeb status is attained, and numerous friends in high places are assured.
Like an Arab sheikh who buys the most expensive of cars, and yet doesn’t know how to drive the thing, so Labour’s one concen is to get elected. They have no political or commercial savvy, – but it is certainly the key to the proverbial vault.
So don’t be so hard on Dave, – he may just be playing them along…
Pete Moore,
“There’s not a chance that local taxes will be cut in London, not the slightest chance. It won’t happen.”
Just what is it about politicians that you fail to understand? Are you such an optimist that you continue to listen to them in the hope that one day you will catch them telling the truth…
Ernest Young -
Since the Tories have been stiffing the British people for 60 years, and yet you still blame Labour for everything, I’d suggest it’s you who fail to understand politicians.
Point out one instance – just one – of the Tories shrinking the welfare state.
Agitated – just popped in to make the comment that you did. It is not the fault of the media that Boris is portrayed as a bumbling oaf. Boris has skillfully and cleverly developed this. It isn’t totally artificial. He recognised the traits in himself and just hams it up a bit.
I would be very suprised if it was conclusively proved that he wasn’t part of my neurodivergent tribe – Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, ADD, Autistic Spectrum.
Ernest Young -
Scrub that question. We’ll make it easier: point out to me the last conservative policy helf by the Tories. Whether in government or opposition, what is the most recent, undeniably conservative policy that the party held.
I’d say it was Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which outlawed the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities.
Can you think of any more recent conservative policy?
I wouldn’t call Section 28 a Conservative policy. It was a Right wing ‘nanny state’ policy. The flip side of the left wing pro-gay agenda. Imposing an ideological belief in law with the threat of prosecution of those who fail to adhere to the right ‘moral code’ is alien to true Conservatism. A true Conservative ideology is one that would regard the State as having no business having a policy on homosexuality at all.
Pete,
They haven’t passed anything remotely ‘conservative’, but then, as I pointed out they do have a very difficult job curing the welfare addiction. If they ‘cut them off’ entirely. they get called ‘nasty’, – and if they don’t they are still still wrong. They are betwixt a stone and a hard place.
If we are honest, there is no civilised solution, – as Galloway said yesterday, and probably the only sensible thing he has ever said, – is that our system of govenmen is irreperably broken. Which in effect means that anything short of a major crisis or disaster will not be good enough to fix it.
Of course you do keep insisting that Cameron is a disaster, so maybe he might well be the answer!…-)
“A true Conservative ideology is one that would regard the State as having no business having a policy on homosexuality at all.”
That’s a true Liberal ideology.
The reason why turnout was down was because the weather was bad. No other reason.We had heavy rain in Gloucester from early morning until early afternoon. It was the worst I have ever seen on election day. It is not surprising that a lot of elderly residents decided not to risk it.
I have spent the last two months door knocking and the response has been very good. There is certainly a lot less anger around than this time last year.
Well done Declan!
“I have spent the last two months door knocking and the response has been very good.”
The British are always willing to help a man who can’t remember where he lives..
Noel
I was referring to the small state Conservative in the sense that Pete would normally approve of.
Colm -
There’s a difference between “approve”, “acceptable” and “better than what we have”.
It strikes me as completely bonkers and a mark of how sovietised we have become that the State has anything to say about sexuality.
Pete
The state has always had a say about sexuality – Why do you think homosexuality was criminilised for centuries . It’s nothing to do with sovietisation – it’s the endless desire of humans to want to interfere in other peoples lives.
So neither would you like the state to employ its coersive arm to kick out the bloody foreigners, right?
Petr
Who was that aimed at ?
Pete. He’s a la carte when it comes the whole state non-intervention thing.
Petr Tarasov -
I would certainly welcome the State reversing its catastrophic mass immigration programme.
It was not just the state. there were many other enablers, incl, in earlier days, private employers who wanted cheap labor.
And without a muscular state, no one is reversing anything, even in theory.
And those who do not believe in states have no dog in this fight anyway. They can’t logically oppose immigration in any way. If the state should have no power, then who is to stop someone from bringing in 1000 ” migrants ” for whatever reason they choose? The greater Kent gardening society?
And I say again, national defence (including mass colonisation by aliens) is one of the few legitimate functions of the collective.
Funded by what?
These things cost money. An awful lot of it.
including mass colonisation by aliens
Hah! What goes around comes around mate! At least they’re not slaughtering your people and stealing your land and resources.
“And I say again, national defence (including mass colonisation by aliens) is one of the few legitimate functions of the collective.”
Why is national defence more important than say a national standard of living? Or providing every child in the country with a fair chance?
Seamus -
The point of government is not to do those things that some would like, nor is it to do things that some are a bit crap at, it is to do only those things collectively which are impossible to do individually.
Sorry, national standards of living (whatever a “national” standard is), providing every child with a fair chance (whatever that means, but keeping them away from State uneducation would be a start) and making life all pink and fluffy and nice don’t make the cut.
Except that ensuring that everyone meets the standard of living can’t be accomplished individually.
Pete
Even if there was some merit in your rather interesting views, almost everyone in your country disagrees with you.
Perhaps they should have some say in the matter.
Phantom,
Don’t be silly, everyone agrees with him. It’s like the way Ron Paul would get 99% of the vote if it wasn’t for all the ballots being secretly burned!
Gents -
It would make a change to read other opinions occasionally, however misguided, instead of reactions against my insightful views.
Pete
My opinion is that really you are no different to anyone else. You want the State to do the things you approve of. Welcome to the same club that 100% of the population belong to.