Thursday, December 08, 2005
The Party of the Future
Well guy's, a lot of political events have happened over the past few days and i thought it was time that I got down to write something.
It all starts (as we all know, or should know) with the Cameron election victory against his rival Davis. I’m sure that all of us are ecstatic with the decisive result, Cameron winning well over 2 to 1! This was vital because it means that Cameron now has a full strong mandate not only from his MP's but also us, the members. Lets say that he won by a thousand votes, then we would have been in serious trouble because the party would have been split… just like the past.
The next day came Prime Ministers Question Time and what a scene! Cameron played the cool yet confident figure that blew Blair apart! Cameron decided not to play the 'Punch and Judy' politics, however, I did see a hint of it. I think this works well in two ways, firstly, and u may hate me for this, but Cameron would probably lose against Blair if he performed in this manner. Secondly, it shows that we really have changed and the people will decide to listen to us! Can you remember when 'the Sun' actually supported us? well it was a long time ago - however - the tide is turning our way. It starts with the headline "Cam is King of Commons." Or if that doesn’t excite u, how about “virtuoso performance.” No? Well I’ll give u a little bit more - "Cameron hit the ground running and was totally in control." You may have read in earlier posts how I refer to the Sun, well there is a very good reason - 8 million people pick up the paper on May 5th and a lot of them decide who to vote for by the headline. I don’t need to remind you that the last election has Blair and Brown walking into No. 10 with football shirts with the headline "Come on you Reds"!
So another really exciting thing has happened! William Hague is back in the Shadow Cabinet! Here is a quick run through of the major changes so far:
Leader: David Cameron
Chancellor: George Osborne
Foreign: William Hague
Home secretary: David Davis
Party chairman: Francis Maude
Defence: Liam FoxEducation: David Willetts
Commons leader: Theresa May
Constitutional affairs: Oliver Heald
This is the first time since we lost the election in 1997 that we don’t have members from the Thatcher era, which is important even though we would argue they did a good job!
I don’t know about you but I think this is our chance, this is our chance to show that we are a credible opposition waiting for Government.
It all starts (as we all know, or should know) with the Cameron election victory against his rival Davis. I’m sure that all of us are ecstatic with the decisive result, Cameron winning well over 2 to 1! This was vital because it means that Cameron now has a full strong mandate not only from his MP's but also us, the members. Lets say that he won by a thousand votes, then we would have been in serious trouble because the party would have been split… just like the past.
The next day came Prime Ministers Question Time and what a scene! Cameron played the cool yet confident figure that blew Blair apart! Cameron decided not to play the 'Punch and Judy' politics, however, I did see a hint of it. I think this works well in two ways, firstly, and u may hate me for this, but Cameron would probably lose against Blair if he performed in this manner. Secondly, it shows that we really have changed and the people will decide to listen to us! Can you remember when 'the Sun' actually supported us? well it was a long time ago - however - the tide is turning our way. It starts with the headline "Cam is King of Commons." Or if that doesn’t excite u, how about “virtuoso performance.” No? Well I’ll give u a little bit more - "Cameron hit the ground running and was totally in control." You may have read in earlier posts how I refer to the Sun, well there is a very good reason - 8 million people pick up the paper on May 5th and a lot of them decide who to vote for by the headline. I don’t need to remind you that the last election has Blair and Brown walking into No. 10 with football shirts with the headline "Come on you Reds"!
So another really exciting thing has happened! William Hague is back in the Shadow Cabinet! Here is a quick run through of the major changes so far:
Leader: David Cameron
Chancellor: George Osborne
Foreign: William Hague
Home secretary: David Davis
Party chairman: Francis Maude
Defence: Liam FoxEducation: David Willetts
Commons leader: Theresa May
Constitutional affairs: Oliver Heald
This is the first time since we lost the election in 1997 that we don’t have members from the Thatcher era, which is important even though we would argue they did a good job!
I don’t know about you but I think this is our chance, this is our chance to show that we are a credible opposition waiting for Government.
# posted by Rich @ 10:18 pm 
