Just Who Is David Cameron - Just Where Does He Stand?

James Forsyth, writing on the Coffee House, has a post about perceived tensions within the Conservative heirachy, the underlying content which can be disregarded as the object of this post is a comment encapsulated within Forsyth's writing.

".....run a campaign high on vision, presenting Cameron as both a unifying figure and the ‘change we need.’ (Yes, they really are intent on casting Cameron as Britain's Obama......"

For some time it has been obvious that Cameron is not a true 'Conservative' - that being naturally someone of right-wing tendencies - but that he is in fact left-of-centre, possibly leaning more to the left than the centre. As mentioned earlier today, when Cameron claimed to be the 'Heir to Blair' it can now be seen that he was deadly serious. If this were not the case why does Cameron still favour EU membership, state control incorporating state grants to local authorities, blindly maintaining the public sector - witness his promise today to 'protect' and not 'cut' the NHS - and the quangocracy. In terms of what may be called 'Maggietollahese', Cameron is most definitely a 'wet' - 'wet' behind the ears and 'wet' on policy.

To believe he has his party 'behind him' is open to debate, in that his MPs give the impression of being - cynical view that it is - more interested in a possible ministerial porfolio than in their principles and political beliefs. Likewise if comments on Conservative Home are to be believed, the majority of the core 'activists' are most definitely not enamoured with his leadership or policies. It is most noticable that the topic which accounts for the most anti-Cameron comments is membership of the EU and this topic is the one about which Cameron refuses to enter into any form of debate.

Cameron continually makes the cry that now is the time for change, yet this is something that it again would seem has not resonated with the electorate. The country is crying out for change, a change from the statist, control-freakery, of socialism. It can also be argued that if Cameron had 'made his case' surely the Conservative party would be far further ahead in the polls. The reason for this not being so is more than possibly because the electorate has realised that the promised change will be, at best, minimal.

Political commentators in the MSM also make the case that as Brown has left an 'open goal' he, Cameron, should by now, with the General election on the horizon, be 'romping home'. Considering Labour's 'open goal, it is also the case that Cameron has left an 'open goal' for the so-called minor parties, 'right-wing' Libertarian, 'straight' Libertarian and Libertarian-Lite, to exploit.

It will, in the months to come, be interesting to see whether the so-called minor parties can indeed 'plant the ball into the net' - and more than once!