Are they out of touch?

[claig]

Disastrous week for the Tories. Interesting analysis by Heffer

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2123029/It-took-Dave-just-days-REALLY-toxify-Tories.html

They are well-educated but are they well out of touch?

I don't want to give the traffic to the Daily Mail by clicking a link.

But however bad the week has been for the Coalition, it's Labour who are the big losers this week. Going from a 5,000 majority to being 10,000+ behind the winner in a safe seat by election (same loss of share of the vote as Coalition) at a time when the Government is having is tough week plus own goals, is just lamentable.

I think Labour are irrelevant at the moment. The Tories are in power and it is their image that has a lasting impression on the electorate. Also, Galloway won in that seat, but he wouldn't have won in most other Labour safe seats.

Maybe the Tory elite should click on Daily Mail links to start getting back in touch with the people. It's no good sticking yoir head in the sand like an ostrich. You need to feel the pulse of the nation and reconnect with core Tory values - you need to read the brutal truth in the Daily Mail.

A Daily Mail comment article says

'The brutal truth is that the public is disillusioned with a gilded, out-of-touch Westminster elite which does not understand having to juggle a family budget and cares more about posturing over foreign aid and posing for pictures playing badminton than finding jobs for Britain?s one million unemployed young.'

and Kelvin Mackenzie, in the Mail, says

'A Tory MP told me the other night that at his local Conservative Association annual meeting last Saturday he was booed when he began talking up the Budget.'

So, claig, now that the Daily Heil is turning against the Nasty Tory scum, and since you slavishly follow what the Daily Heil says, as if it were the word of God, will you now also reject the Tories and their nasty policies?

You have to, my friend. The Daily Heil is what 'middle-England' thinks, right? It speaks up for truth and justice and core British values, etc...

'It speaks up for truth and justice and core British values, etc...'

It certainly does that and more!!

It is the voice of reason, which is how it earned the moniker, "voice of the people", and it is asking questions that shake foundations in the interest of the nation.

Yes, that's nice.

So, are you going to dump your support for the Tories, then?

Certainly not. But that doesn't mean slavishly supporting any policy without question.