Ashcroft Inquiry gives Tories golden chance to change

(Illustration thanks to Anonemouse) William Rees-Mogg in his Times column this morning, here, comments on the threat to the Labour Party represented by the BNP. The Conservative Party riding high in the polls seems to believe that they just have to sit tight, rely on Cameron and Osborne's tailor dummy good looks and lack of thought or policies to safely garner a comfortable majority in an election which is inevitable within the next fifteen months. Nothing seems less likely to this sometimes fairly accurate forecaster. The traditional one hundred per cent reliable Conservative voter is about to take umbrage at the next phase of the banking crisis policies of the government for which Cameron and Osborne have offered no alternatives. Crowning that the inquiry into Lord Ashcroft's donations and other questions regarding his residency status, read here, are evidence of such overreaching greed, stupidity and incompetence amongst the party's present leadership that change becomes so obviously desirable that even the blindfolded mass of party members might begin to see the obvious. (The problem of the lack of obvious alternative leadership candidates is a separate issue for later consideration). Never mind the mass of voters outraged by the disastrous immigration non-policies of the present governments, those smugly and comfortably placed in their own homes in leafy suburbs with mortgages of less than 50 per cent of the already reduced house equity, are about to be outraged by this next governmental pilfering of their purses and wallets. If the Tories have no change the benefits will surge towards the UKIP or even the English Democrats. The BNP is too far left for the middle-classes, but the Tories ,it is becoming increasingly clear, are too out of touch, incompetent and corrupt to offer a realistic alternative. The early years of Cameron's aping of Blair is too recent not to be remembered with suitable prompting by opponents during an election campaign, let alone the standing ovation upon Blair's departure from the Commons chamber. If there is no election within the next 15 months, another possibility, then the eventual successors to New Labour will be the BNP or something horribly similar.