Is this the death of Tory modernisation?

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"Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said: 'Tim Yeo's de-selection is another sign that under David Cameron the Conservative Party is reverting to type, with no place for those who thought he meant it when he said "Vote blue, go green".

'Just this week one Tory with modernising credentials has been de-selected and another has quit, and David Cameron is trying to water down a green levy he introduced and even boasted about.

'It's more evidence of the death of Tory modernisation. David Cameron's party is becoming narrower and less open and moving further from the centre ground.'"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2515976/MP-caught-lobbying-scandal-fighting-political-career-ditched-local-party.html

Labour must be bricking it. If Cameron holds his nerve, if he has the courage to really "cut the green crap" then this is plain sailing to victory at the election. But can he hold his nerve or does he believe in the "green crap"?

I think that One Nation Labour hopes he will stay with them and stick to the "green crap" and the windmills and all the rest of the eco biosphere planetary palaver

"12.000 faithful Tory members pounded the streets for Cameron at the last election, will they do it again?"

No chance, because they are not stupid and they know what the Tory faithful will tell them on the doorstep. The leadership listen only to "modernisers" and only watch polar bears on the BBC, but down on the streets, the party workers speak to real Tories and they must know how we feel.

'I can't see it ending well for Dave can you?'

It depends what happens in the next 18 months. Labour are useless, Ed Balls, flat-lining, the same old same old. Did you watch Andrew Neil interview Yvette Cooper today? He made mincemeat of her, it was quite embarrassing how easy it was. They are useless. But that doesn't mean that the Tories will win because many of their voters have principles and they won't vote for them anymore. They can shout "cut the green crap" till they are blue in the face but we don't really believe them and we know the "modernisers" have posters of the polar bear on their walls. UKIP said it first and they really mean it.

In the Euro elections in May, UKIP will thrash them all, as more people join those of us who voted for them in the last election. At that stage, the Tories may have to do a deal with UKIP, and then together they will win a landslide.

But if the Tories are greedy and want it all, they may be heading for a great fall.

It won't matter to us the voters because we can't tell the difference between Labour and the Tories except on the destruction of our civil liberties, and for that we will hope to kick them out next time before they are able to implement those policies.

Goodnight, ironman.