Until recently my answer to that question would have been an unequivocal “No” and I still believe that that is the case amongst the party’s membership.
But when David Cameron made his speech in Scotland the other day, he attacked quite blatantly the legitimate concerns of his largest voting bloc.
The thing is, I really don’t know why he did it. There’s absolutely no logical value in making a poisonous speech that make angry a proportion of 85% of the population in order to placate a proportion of 11% of the population.
I am Conservative, and despite the tone of the speech, I will remain Conservative and proud of it: Cameron’s tone on everything else is table setting before the Conservative meal. But he’ll only manage to maintain this attitude so long. The Conservative Party is almost alone in the United Kingdom as a reasonable right-wing party. But if that were to change then I am sure the majority of blogging right-wingers would jump at the chance to join that new party.
I have written before, too, about the Campaign for an English Parliament and, quite frankly, I do not understand opposition to it. I’ve not yet received anything more logical than emotional responses to the question: Why don’t Conservatives in government support it? I know that a large proportion of the membership of the Tory party do and I know that the membership won’t leave the party over this one issue; but Cameron must know what dangers he is running with his membership. The EU was a big ask of the membership under Major; England is Cameron’s EU.
So why this outburst? Pox Anglorum’s excellent post that absolutely must be read.
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