Occasional Scribbles

Peter Hitchens, (Link to his blog here), journalist, writer, commentater and columnist for the Mail on Sunday has long been urging his readers and supporters to vote “None of the Above” with respect to the three main political parties.  He rightly points out that the existing conservative party is so like Labour that there is little to choose between the two.  He would like to see the conservatives crushed once and for all so that a new party, truly conservative could rise from the ashes.

For true Conservatives this is an idea that is all too appealing but one that was unlikely to happen, until now.  David Davis’s resignation from his party could possibly become far more interesting than it appears on face value.  Is it possible for him to challenge his leader David Cameron and oust him outright, taking up the reigns and bringing back the core conservatives that have been so sidelined since the Camaron juggernought got going?

Cameron’s lazy liberal attitude has easily attracted the type of people who were conservative minded but voted for Blair.  He has been described as ‘Blair’s Heir’ and seems happy to be so.  Peter points out the astonishing support of the liberal left press for the conservatives, whom until recently, they despised and rediculed, supporting his argument that they have indeed become a party the lib-left can happily support.

But where does this leave the conservative right?  They seem to have been squeezed out of Cameron’s inner circle, languishing around out of the way somewhere, despised and labelled Dinosaurs.  Great swathes of the people of this country are unrepresented in parliament and not surprisingly they are beginning, slowly to grumble.  Fundamental issues such as Europe and individual freedom from the state that is now threatened more than ever before, has brought them out of our their collective apathy.

Just as the great charter of freedom, Magna Carta, celebrates it’s 808th anniversary we have seen a government fly in the face of this document guaranteeing the individual’s freedom for ever, by bribing it’s way to holding people for six weeks without charge or trial.  Alonside this thoroughly un English situation, our Irish friends have thrown a curve ball in defiance of giving away any more of these freedoms to the vast dictatorship that has become the European Union.  People are waking up at last.

David Davis is poised to open up the long needed debate for such issues and disgracefully the government will not take part in defending its position.  How can it?  Gordon Brown knows that amongst other awkward accusations, the debate will cast a spot light on the corruption and bribery by the government that went on in parliament to attain the yes vote for the 42 day detention.  This process makes a mockery of democracy. If anyone is in doubt about the contempt this governmetn has for the democratic process, they have only to see the way Brown is going ahead with the Lisbon Treaty without allowing the people a say in this massive removal of power.  What a betrayal.

The time is right for David Davis and all those who value liberty, and freedom to do everything they can to stop this government in its tracks and put a halt on the European Treaty.  Good luck David.