Sunday 4 October 2009

Ten reasons to hate the Tories (9)

Point 9 from Cameron's Blueprint for Britain was this:

9. If the Lisbon Treaty is not yet in force at the time of the next general election we will suspend ratification, hold a referendum and campaign for a No vote.

Ahem. Just let me highlight the key word there:








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6 comments:

Quiet_Man said...

Many of us expect the EU to move heaven and earth to ratify the Treaty before the UK election. We're also debating what "Call me Dave" will do if it is ratified. Most think he'll bottle it and come up with a "we'll try to reform from within", completely forgetting that the increase in power the EU parliament gets from Lisbon makes reform even harder to achieve.

manwiddicombe said...

"campaign for a No vote"

Against which proposition?

Gav said...

Until about 10 seconds ago, I was subscribed to this blog - but this is just turning out to be the 'Tories are evil' spam blog which is boring.

I can't say I love the Tories, and I'm not a fan of Cameron in the slightest - but 11 posts in a day banging on about the same thing is ridiculous. I haven't even bothered to read most of it which is a shame, because I'd probably agree with it to some extent.

Unfortunately, the Tories are the only hope for us, even if it is only a small glimmer - if Labour get in again we are truly finished.

It would probably be more productive to try change the Conservatives rather than voting for various other small parties and letting Labour have another term to ruin our businesses, take all of our money and destroy our liberty.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Gav, best of luck with that.

If you'd bothered to read my eleven posts over two days you might notice that I just looked at each of their own ten bullet points in turn and explained what they should be doing. They started it.

In a year or two you'll realise that I was right all along and that they will be every bit as bad as Labour.

Tim Almond said...

Gav,

"It would probably be more productive to try change the Conservatives rather than voting for various other small parties and letting Labour have another term to ruin our businesses, take all of our money and destroy our liberty."

And you know the best way to do that? By voting UKIP. Enough people do it and they might get the message. They might get a much smaller majority because they see the small government vote getting split and lose seats as a result. And if they fear the next election result (greater vote for UKIP causing more seats lost to UKIP), they might do something about becoming a small government party again.

You will see no other change in the tories until the MPs think that Cameron will lose them their jobs.

Jackart said...

"Every bit as bad as Labour"

Is just the most childish and stupid nihilistic line.

I'm getting bored of it too. I'm with Gav on this one.