DC's missing challenge
- 6 Dec 05, 04:25 PM
How does he do it? That was what the Tories asked after watching their new leader speak without notes, flawlessly and confidently about changing the Conservative Party (you can watch it here if you didn't see it). Only one problem. David Cameron told us the party faced six challenges and then only listed five. What was the missing one? It's a bit of a problem for the new face of the Tory party. It was, er, tackling global poverty. Ooops.
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He doesn't need notes because he doesn't SAY anything. He just waffles generalities it's hard to disagree with.
Blair Mk II is off to a good start.
Congratulations to Cameron, a very convincing win over the original favourite, now starts the difficult task. The period of him fudging answers and issues must be replaced by real policies and clear ideas. Without these the Tories will continue to look bland and merely opportunist. He needs to take all the party with him and get the Conservative party to relise Britain is interested in more than just saying no to Europe.
No doubt though Blair and especially Brown are worried about the new golden boy of British politics
He certainly looked confident didn't he, he might be the man to do for the Torys what the last 3 leaders have so badly failed to do, and that is appeal to young voters. Only time will tell.
After all the interest the conservative party election and David Cameron i'm still non the wiser about who he is and what he stands for.
I suppose watch this space?
He also said that he deplored how the Conservative Party was largely made up of white men. Then he went on to say that they must have more women, without addressing the "white" bit.
Did he miss the line in his speech that said "we need to encourage more representation of our large and vital ethnic communities"?
Or is that not of concern to him?
Yes, it was unfortunate that he remembered the excitement of road pricing models, but forgot the ethical foreign policy! Roads are important, but the foreign devlopment policies are the ones that signal a step change in the party. They are not the ideas a Conservative would usually be expected to espouse.
So very critical. Let us hope the media give him a chance and do not spend the next few months trying to pull him down. He will have enough problems trying to bring together the majority of MP's who did not vote for him.
Congratulations to Mr Cameron. Unfortauntely, as a non-Tory I am sad to see him win, as he is clearly the best man for job.
I suspect his five challenges are probably a good indication of the quality of the Conservative numeracy and education policies though.
DC's missing ethnic groups...
I watched your video of David Cameron's victory speech.
I thought it was unfortunate that when describing how the Conservative party was over represented by 'white men', that his solution only included improving the amount of women he hoped to include in the future make up of the party.
Why bother mentioning the colour of the men if your solution doesn't mention any improvement in the racial mix of his party's new look.
Double Ooops I would say!
Why shoukd Blair and Brown be worried. They know the conservaties are hopelessley divided and that it will take a miracle for DC to get them all to pull in the same direction.
Let us hope he can stitch the party together. They must trust and believe in him otherwise another few years of sitting around with nothing to do.
This was a disappointing result. Although I am no fan of Davis, at least he provides a positive role-model: the poor kid who made good. Cameron is just an establishment toff, born with a silver spoon in his gob. His background is so privileged, he manages to make Blair look working class.
We're going to see a showdown eventually between The Next Generation: DC vs GB.
What I love about this is how they personify the Tories-move-to-the-left, and Labour-move-to-the-right, vote-winning swing.
I don't mean their policies, I mean superficially; in that if DC looked a bit less smug, and GB looked a bit less grumpy, they would look like the perfect archetypes of members of the opposite party.
It is a shame that in a country like Britain leaders are chosen now a days to win the election by compromising the principles. DC's speeches are always full of 'we have to', ' We got to' do more generalised tasks rather than saying what is to be done and in what way. To me David Davis seemed to know what he was talking about.
Now that he has won the leadership, Cameron can surely start using notes now?! Let's just hope that Cameron can start providing some substance.
As a young Conservative who voted for Cameron (34 years old We do exist!)
I'm very optimistic for the first time in many years.
Its time for the new leader to start dragging the party kicking & screaming (if need be!)into the 21st century.
Because this is what it is going to take for us to form the next Government