Preaching to a depressed choir

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger advises Tory MPs.

Great, first the Conservatives (and we) are lumbered with the boy Prime Minister and now we've got his guru.

Lib-Dem/Tory merger?

The new Lib-Dem-Tory symbol

Fraser Nelson over at the Telegraph looks at the possibility of a permanent merger of the Liberal Democrats with the Tories.  This doesn't surprise me. Twenty years ago, I would have laughed at such a preposterous idea, but the Tory party has strayed so far from its principles under the odious Mr David Cameron (a man whom I have in a very short time gone from distrusting to loathing) that I wouldn't be surprised if the Tories didn't merge with the Lib-Dems and a week later invited Labour to join in the fun.  There's scarcely any daylight between them at the moment.

The irony is that none of this should have been necessary.  Mr Gordon Brown handed Mr Cameron an landslide victory on a platter that said Mr Cameron then squandered into a hung Parliament.  I firmly believe that if the Tories offered the voters a truly conservative manifesto that included a promise to repeal everything New Labour ever did, half of what John Majors did, a quarter of what Lady Thatcher did, and promised an immediate Day One repeal of the Human Rights Act followed the next day by a straight up or down referendum on Britain leaving the EU, the Conservatives would have a majority that would stand for the next two generations.

Random thoughts on a rotten burough

Mr David Cameron announces the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition.

We now have the Cameron/Clegg coalition and for the past 24 hours I've been wracking my brains trying to come up with something to say about it other than "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" and hoping that I'll wake up. Unfortunately, I did this morning and they were still there.

What has happened over the past week is a perfect encapsulment of all that has gone rotten in British politics. For 13 years, Britain was governed by a party that acted like an occupying power hellbent on dismantling a hated enemy. It was a disaster so all-encompassing that a re-subtitled Downfall clip would have been far too appropriate to be funny. New Labour was such an amazing, transcendent screw up that the Conservatives should have conducted the election in their street clothes and come away with a majority so large that both Labour and the Liberal Democrats should have been replaced as the loyal opposition by the UKIP. Instead, Boy Cameron, who feels that the problem with Conservatives was all that conservatism, managed to run against a hated PM leading an imploding party and couldn't even reach the finish line.

Now, to add insult to injury, the Conservatives have formed a coalition with a party so insane that they haven't held power since the First World War. This isn't a coalition government; it's a stitch up between a hollow log and a joy buzzer. In order to make nice with each other they've had to jettison so much of their manifestos that neither can do anything except infuriate their own supporters and leave the entire country in a position like an alien abduction victim waiting for the anal probe.

A sane outcome of the election would have been a Prime Minister of some standing announcing a five-year programme of dismantling everything New Labour has ever done while giving Johnny Jihad a kick up the backside he'd never forget with an afternoon off to repeal the European Communities Act of 1972. Instead, we have two members of the parasitic new political class that replaced the Establishment who regard actually doing something about defence, immigration, the economy, and the general collapse of British society as too much of a distraction from playing with their train set and altering the electoral system so that another proper government will never be possible ever again.

Mr Cameron says that he will ask Parliament to rig the system so that there won't be another election until May 2015. Fat Chance–especially with the BBC acting as if the Liberal Democrats have broken their lefty little hearts.

Frankly, I give this Frankenstein's Monster of a coalition six months before it gets tossed back to the nation to go through the whole sorry mess again.

RESULT!

Her Majesty has invited Mr David Cameron to become Prime Minister.

More on this development later. As for Mr Gordon Brown's resignation (However are they going to get the claw marks out of the door jamb?) and New Labour's finally getting the boot, let's put it this way.

What's the alternative?

Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of MigrationwatchUK, is less than completely confident about Mr David Cameron's stand on restricting immigration.

Given how New Labour conspired to make war against the British people on this issue and then bragged about afterwards, Mr Cameron would have to lead a Red Chinese armoured column off Brighton Beach to do any worse.

Irony Alert

Remember "hug-a-hoodie"? Guess what happened to the chap who came up with the idea?

Crewe Cut

The Conservatives have taken the formerly safe Labour seat of Crewe with a majority of 7,860.

I'm not exactly jumping up and down about this one. While it's great to see New Labour taking one in the eye, it isn't much of a win when it goes to New Conservative, which runs on the manifesto of "we're just like New Labour except we'll do it bit less wretchedly."

Now if they'd won on a promise of (for a start) repealing everything that New Labour has done in the past eleven years, dismantling the Welfare State forthwith, placing a moratorium on immigration, quiting the EU immediately and admitting flatly that we are at war and that it will be prosecuted as such with full vigour and a tripled defence budget with all combat operations funded by emergency spending bills, then you'd get my attention.

Conservative Dhimmitude

A Muslim group in Britain lays out its talking points:

• Iran has "legitimate reasons for wanting nuclear weapons."
• Muslim preachers who advocate a rejection of democracy and its institutions should not be denied entry into Britain.
• Education in Britain should be changed to provide "full recognition to the massive contribution that Islam has made to the development of Western civilisation".
• Britain should think twice about supporting Israel unless they want the wrath of the umma to come down on their heads.

So, who are this lot? A load of raving Jihadi imams? No, its the Tory party's Conservative Muslim Forum.

It's like walking into the Carlton Club in 1943 and seeing Von Ribbentrop propping up the bar.

Maybe If He Had a Goatee

The speech that David Cameron should make-- if he were somehow replaced by a doppelganger from a parallel universe.