Finally we have a real analysis of what is wrong with the Conservative Party from David Davis in the Mail on Sunday. Davis is the only real Tory left in there - working-class and brought up by a single mum on a housing estate.
The problem is that they are luvvies, "modernisers" and the British people aren't. We have had enough of them. The Establishment has lost confidence, it believes in nothing, it has no ideology, which is why it follows any liberal fad that the BBC promotes such as polar bears and climate catastophe. The Establishment believes in nothing and is so out of touch with ordinary people that it needs focus groups to tell it what to think, and uses actors and celebritries and goodwill "ambassadors" and "tsars" to try and sway the public towards metropolitan concerns as it tries to "love bomb" Scotland and "save the planet" and it thinks that we will all applaud them for it. They have no plan, they have no idea, they have no goal, they are out of touch.
Here is David Davis who understands why the Tory Party has haemorrhaged support - it is because they are not like us, they are modernisers.
"To put it at its kindest, the project to ‘modernise’ the party failed to deliver electoral success. At the same time, party membership collapsed from around 500,000 in 1992, to about 100,000 in 2010. In short, we’re not in as strong a position as we would hope."
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the threat from Ukip is no longer a laughing matter. We have to recognise the problem, think out the answer, and act on it.
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The reason is simple: the strategy has been wrong because the analysis of the problem was wrong. This is not to say the Conservatives did not need to change. But to heal a sickness, you need the correct diagnosis and the correct remedy.
Trying to modernise the party without knowing why it needed to be modernised was like trying to fix a broken leg with radiotherapy. You may end up doing more harm than good.
Essentially, the modernisers absorbed the view of London’s metropolitan elite, which confuses social conservatism with bigotry, patriotism with xenophobia, or even racism, and equates an admiration for wealth creation with disdain for the poor and even carelessness about the future of the planet. Nonsensical views, but remarkably common in the upper reaches of parts of London society.
It reached its apogee with Theresa May calling the Tories ‘the Nasty Party’. This appalling calumny is best demonstrated by an abiding memory of mine.
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It is not to say the Conservatives did not have a problem.
Their image was tarnished by Black Wednesday in 1992 when sterling crashed out of the ERM. And the ‘cash for questions’ exposés and occasional sex scandal gave the Conservative brand an unpleasant whiff of hypocrisy and corruption.
This was what cost the party a third of its support. It was not, as many modernisers believed, about bigotry, or homophobia, or even racism.
And yet this lazy, liberal, metropolitan analysis underpinned the moderniser approach. As the basis for abandoning the central tenets of the most successful political party in modern history, the analysis was rubbish.
By shifting the Conservative brand away from its historic base, the party abandoned traditional Conservative principles and made ourselves less appealing to those who supported us.
Headline policies have downplayed the economy and reform of public services, and concentrated on fringe issues like environmentalism, gay marriage and foreign aid. Very few of these are in voters’ top five concerns.
The party leadership is seen as considerably more Left-wing than its support. Middle England regards modernisation as the obsession of a metropolitan elite.
The most significant consequence to the Conservatives’ confused and inconsistent public stance is that Ukip are polling at slightly over 15 per cent. If they get over five per cent at the next General Election, it dramatically increases the likelihood Ed Miliband will be the next Prime Minister.
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The proportion of Britons owning their homes has been falling for over a decade. Wage rates are stagnant and undermined by inflation. Household debt is at record levels. The aspirational classes on which the party has traditionally relied are crumbling.
We must continue to reduce the tax burden and end the absurd situation where money is taken from people’s pay only to be given back in benefits and tax credits. We should raise the National Insurance threshold in line with income tax to reduce the tax burden on the low paid. We should get rid of employers’ National Insurance contributions and reject Labour calls to raise the top-rate of income tax.
We must help the struggling middle classes with a rise in the threshold for the 40p tax rate. Too many pay what was meant to be a rate for the very rich.
When George Osborne said in 2007 he would raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1 million, a six-point poll deficit turned into a three-point lead. When David Cameron was seen to stand up to Europe over the election of Jean-Claude Juncker he went up five points in the polls. Such popularity is not easily explained by the traditional moderniser analysis, where Europe is a taboo subject."
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2772283/The-threat-UKIP-no-longer-laughing-matter-Get-Dave-lower-taxes-win-Election-writes-DAVID-DAVIS.html
And Labour are out of touch too, as shown by Miliband's desperate Gareth speech, because they have exactly the same metropolitan mindset, because they are all part of the same metropolitan elite.
That is why UKIP are rising - because the people have had enough of being lectured to and patronised by a bunch of right-on luvvies, most of whom have never had a real job outside of politics.
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