September 6, 2004

TRY THE NEW REPUBLICANS INSTEAD OF THE NEW DEMOCRATS:

Party should not apologise, says Hague (Benedict Brogan, 06/09/2004, Daily Telegraph)

Mr Hague, who attended the Republican convention in New York last week, told the BBC's Breakfast with Frost that the Tories should dominate the centre ground, but insisted that the political centre had moved more to the Right since Labour came to power. Mr Hague said: "But many of those voters [in the centre] want a tough approach to crime, want choice in their services, want lower taxes.

"They want this country to continue to exist rather than its rights to be signed away to the European Union. So we mustn't be ashamed of being Conservatives. It's one of the lessons of the American Republicans or our Australian equivalents."


How about at least being as conservative as Tony Blair for a start? Then add to the Third Way by coming out forcefully against the EU.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 6, 2004 7:17 PM
Comments

They'd have to call themselves the "New Monarchists," I think.

Posted by: James Haney at September 6, 2004 8:57 PM

Somebody needs a tobuy a couple of gross of clue bats and beat some sense into these buggers. they have an enormous opening. Labour is just aching to ditch Blair and leave the field to the Tories. All they have to do is reconnect to traditional England. Remember the Fox hunting furor.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at September 6, 2004 9:16 PM

Britain is in dire need of realignment. It is long time for the bad Monty Python routine that is the 'Conservative Party' to leap flaming onto the scrap heap of history. Heseltine, Patten, Clarke, Hogg and Soames can stage a remake of the 'Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition.'

Posted by: Bart at September 6, 2004 11:02 PM

As conservative as Tony Blair?

I think my irony alert just burst into flames.

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at September 7, 2004 4:44 AM
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