Since becoming Prime Minister of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition, David Cameron has taken many liberties with the Conservative party and indeed with the grassroots members.

His first was when he contemplated the idea of coalition with the Lib Dems, the party assumed he would attempt a minority government, however, events moved quickly, and without consultation, many manifesto, and long-term Tory policies went out of the window. Inheritance Tax, CGT, marriage tax relief and several others too. The party acquiesced for the sake of the coalition and the ‘national interest’.

But now Mr Cameron has over-stepped the mark, not just slightly, but blatantly and needlessly and this time the party goodwill is not with him. Whilst campaigning for our votes in the General Election Cameron claimed….

They won’t give us proper border controls but they long to give us ID cards. They trash important civil liberties like jury trial but they will keep the Human Rights Act that actually hinders our fight against terrorism.

But it wasn’t just that, it was the cynicism of it. He told us things that he knows he can’t do: ‘British jobs for British workers’ is illegal under EU law. ‘Deporting people for gun and knife crime’, you can’t do that because of the Human Rights Act. I have to say to our prime minister: ‘If you treat people like fools you don’t deserve to run the country let alone win an election’.

We will give Britain a proper Border Police Force, and we will scrap the pointless ID cards. We will defend important civil liberties like jury trial but we will replace the Human Rights act.

The first test of his highly popular claim to ‘replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights’ fell at the first hurdle, victim to Cameron’s Lib Dem partners. Douglas Murray of the Daily Telegraph explains….

Abid Naseer and ten others were arrested last year in a round-up of suspects accused of being involved in an Al-Qaeda Easter bomb plot in Manchester. Readers will remember that the raids against suspects had to go off early because the then counter-terror chief, Bob Quick, was filmed carrying a visible list of the suspects’ names into Downing Street.

Eight of the men returned voluntarily to Pakistan. But Naseer and one other appealed that they could be treated badly if they returned to Pakistan and have now won the right to stay in Britain

The Special Immigration and Appeals Commission acknowledged these men still posed a threat and could, at any moment attempt another bomb attack in the UK. This essentially means that the human rights of the British public  - who are still at risk of attack by these men, are less important than the human rights of the terrorists themselves! But more importantly, David Cameron has confirmed this by stating the government will ‘not challenge the Appeal Commission’s judgement’.

In fact, Cameron’s key pledge to do away with the impractical and foolish European Convention of Human Rights, and replace it with a more workable British Bill of Rights is now no longer on offer. It was simply a lie, a trick and an affront to both; party members and the British public who voted for it in the General Election. Conservative voters and activists across the country are furious and are showing it on blogs and forums as well as in meetings in local constituencies, Cameron must listen to their complaints, he needs to assure them they are more important than appeasing his short-term partners in coalition, or, he will face an embarrassing revolt that could bring down his government. The press and mainstream media are looking for a weak link in the coalition chain, they may be surprised to find that Cameron’s liberties are highly corrosive and the chain could give at any moment

If Liam Byrne’s tasteless letter to David Laws stating ‘there is no money left’ wasn’t enough evidence that the last government was an historic and monumental economic disaster, then the emerging story of Labour’s ‘scorched earth spending spree’ has to be the smoking gun that convicts Gordon Brown’s ‘evil regime’!  According to John Pinar BBC 5live Chief Political Correspondent, evidence is emerging that ‘Top civil service chiefs lodged formal protests at decisions by Labour ministers to spend millions in dying months of Lab gov’.

At the weekend the Sunday Times confirmed long held beliefs that the Labour Government has adopted a ‘Scorched Earth Policy’ by committing the next government to billions of pounds worth of unaffordable spending spiked with significant cancellation clauses. The article stated…..

David Willetts, the universities minister, claimed that Labour had left behind “not so much an in-tray as a minefield”.

Billions of pounds in public money was committed in the run-up to the election campaign in a deliberate strategy to boost Labour’s chances at the ballot box and sabotage the next government.

One former Labour minister told The Sunday Times: “There was collusion between ministers and civil servants to get as many contracts signed off as possible before the election was called.”

However the last sentence above is now being contradicted according to Pinar and Civil Service chiefs are keen to wash their hands of any accusations of collusion with their former Labour Ministers and Secretaries.

Some of the spending commitments are listed in the Sunday Times article and include….

- A series of defence contracts signed shortly before the election, including a £13 billion tanker aircraft programme whose cost has “astonished and baffled” ministers.

- £420m of school building contracts, many targeting Labour marginals, signed off by Ed Balls, the former schools secretary, weeks before the general election was called.

- The troubled £1.2 billion “e-borders” IT project for the immigration service, which, sources say, is running even later and more over-budget than Labour ministers had admitted.

- A crisis in the student loans company where extra cash may be needed to prevent a repeat of last year’s failure to process tens of thousands of claims on time.

- The multi-billion-pound cost of decommissioning old nuclear power plants, which ministers claim has not been properly accounted for in Whitehall budgets.

- A £600m computer contract for the new personal pensions account scheme rushed through by Labour this year, which will still cost at least £25m even if it is cancelled.

On Monday David Cameron instructed his ministers to go back to their departments and list all of Labour’s spending commitments signed in the immediate run-up to the General Election. This task will be performed with relish by those who endured years of torment from Labour’s front-bench in the House of Commons. With the almost certain guarantee of possible criminal charges for the most serious abuse of government powers, many in the Conservative party baying for a McCarthy-style red-witch-hunt will get their wish.

Since Gordon Brown resigned as Labour leader there has been a frenzy of blogging and tweeting about how the new Labour Party should behave towards it’s core voters and indeed British people in general. With headings like ‘Labour needs to re-connect’ and ‘Labour needs to understand why they lost the election’.

LabourList has a classic ‘We need to learn to understand the bread and butter issues’ – It’s as though the party, and therefore our former government, have finally admitted they ’NEVER’ understood our nation’s problems or culture. British people have been complaining for the past 5 years or more about immigration, extravagant government spending and 1000’s of unnecessary laws and government diktats that were eroding our freedoms and quality of life.

Whilst still bewildered and confused as to why the British people hated them so much, Labour party activists are staggering around asking each other what to do next? Yes they need a new leader, but what should that leader look like? One particular blog post even said ‘Brown’s PPS says new leader must be untainted by past mistakes‘ quite an amazing admission of failure and maladministration!  Do they go left, or right or try to stay in the centre? Labour have some tough choices to make between union domination or to slap a fresh coat of paint over the New Labour  Project.

There is no shortage of advice from right wingers and other parties, but they are short of ideas themselves. Perhaps a period of silent contemplation is needed, but no, they can’t even do that, already hypocritically wailing, ‘Even more jobs for the boys‘ in relation to Cameron’s new coalition cabinet appointments, quite astonishing from a party that openly encouraged dozens of back scratching quangos and nepotism at all levels of government.  Of course, if you consider the Conservatives had the first woman party leader in 1975 and the first woman Prime Minister in 1979, and yet there isn’t a single woman standing in the contest for Labour’s new leader, then you realise just how ridiculous and backward the socialists still remain.

So, what is in store for Labour in opposition? after a lot of contemplating, debating and even a considerable amount of office brainstorming, we came up with the conclusion ‘WHO CARES’? – Let’s just enjoy life like we used to before 1997.

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Jon Sopel suggested to John Redwood MP on the BBC news channel ‘it would be better for the party if the Tories stood back and watched the Lib/Lab/Rainbow Coalition fail, resulting in a second General Election later in the year’. Redwood, in true Tory spirit dismissed the idea as ‘not being in the national interest’. He explained that the Rainbow Coalition would be bad for the economy and consequently would result in all sorts of  problems for the country.

We don’t agree with John Redwood’s view, which, we might add, seems very much the general opinion of most Tory grandees. We think they are too short-term, and will put the country in greater jeopardy and here’s why. If the Conservatives do a deal with the very unpopular Lib Dems, two things will happen. Firstly, the treacherous Lib Dems will not fully support a Conservative government, they will let Cameron down just when he most needs unity. Cameron is no fool yet he is getting into bed with a party of loony-left, class war activists who hate everything the Tories stand for. Secondly, they will bring instability to an administration that will need to be strong on economic measures, the markets will be jittery and will never be convinced enough to take away our fears of a credit downgrade.

Whilst the LibDem/Con pact limps along, the Labour party will elect a new leader and quickly begin pouring scorn on the uncomfortable and clumsy alliance of Cameron and Clegg. They will be easy targets for ridicule and charges of financial incompetence, especially when Cameron’s cuts results in inevitable job losses. Interest rates will climb due to Brown’s scandalous debt legacy and the public will become hostile when the mainstream media fuel the fire.

Before the end of the year, the doomed coalition will fail triggering another General Election and the re-charged Labour party will find it easy to sweep back into power. That’s when our fragile economy will be further plundered and abused by New Labour Mark II.

So, we say to John Redwood, your national interest stance will be short lived, the country needs a majority long-term Conservative party in power with a majority to carry out a complicated and essential repair to our economy and broken society, what good will a 6 month quick-fix do?

Let the Labour party form the next government in a shaky Rainbow Alliance, watch it collapse and see the Tories sweep to power later in the year with a huge mandate for 5 years of positive confident government. Anything less is NOT in the national interest!

We need to ask ourselves why so many Labour cabinet ministers and backbenchers are against the idea of remaining in power through a Rainbow Coalition? The answer is simple, they don’t trust the Lib Dems either, they would prefer to watch on as Clegg and Cable weaken the hand of a Tory administration, leaving the way clear for them to seize power possibly for a generation.

We make no apology for warning our readers over the past few weeks about the treachery and double dealing of the Lib Dem party, and now we have been vindicated. Nick Clegg has been exposed as nothing more than the representative of a bunch of power hungry left-wing-bigots.

There has been no ‘transparency’ or ‘new politics’ from the Lib Dems, just double dealing and self interest. We have seen the disgraceful Labour party undermining any chance of a Conservative government, the public are outraged and will not support us if we continue to work along side the Lib Dems or Labour. Remember we are judged by the company we keep.

It’s now time for David Cameron’s Conservatives to withdraw from the political dirty deals being struck in Westminster. The Tories must let the British public know this is not how our party does it’s politics, we must disassociate the whole Tory movement from this shameful mess. Do it now David, you have stretched your supporters to breaking point, enough is enough, the Tory faithful are not enjoying the ride, they want to get off.

We need to stand back and allow the Rainbow Coalition to show the voters of Britain just what a hung parliament delivers, they need to see how Proportional Representation would look and they need to experience the real pain and personal hardship of a bankrupt Britain delivered by the unelected Campbell, Mandelson, Adonis and their puppet Prime Minister David Miliband. A true Conservative knows this is what the electorate need if our country is to be delivered a majority Tory government after the collapse of the Rainbow Coalition in the Autumn.

It’s all going according to plan. No, not for Cameron and Clegg, but for the dark Lord Mandelson and the Labour dirty tricks department. Whilst the Tory grandees; Hague, Letwin and Osborne preen themselves in front of the world’s press, behind the scenes in the No.10 bunker, plans are being laid to have Labour back in power within a year and see the Tory party cast into the political wilderness for a generation. As Mervyn King said, ‘whoever forms the next government will be in opposition for a generation’.

Cameron is desperate to extract some sort of victory from a poor showing in the general election. He promised victory and delivered a hung parliament, even by his own standards all he achieved was failure. Nick Clegg has also delivered an embarrassing flop to his party, they had become deluded by their leader’s popularity in the 3 leader’s debates, but when it all ended in tears, the Lib Dems actually have less seats now than in 2005, Clegg’s deflated party will expect some sort of power sharing deal with Cameron or Labour to ease the embarrassment.

The Tory grass-roots sense a trap, they are all too aware of the proverb, ‘if you associate with people who could let you down, then, from time to time, you must expect to be let down’, but Cameron is too engrossed in a power sharing summit to spot this and his close circle are inexperienced compared to Mandelson and Alastair Campbell. The tempting offers and mood-music being offered by Labour are nothing more than red herrings, there is nothing actually on the table for Clegg who is a close friend and ally of Lord Mandelson. Gordon Brown is not even party to this little plan, he still thinks he can remain in power using the Lib Dems as part of a rainbow coalition of everyone except the Conservatives. He is quite deluded and quite harmless right now.

Mandelson’s plan is cunning, as you would expect from the architect of the New-Labour Project. It is also a simple plan, but then the best plans are. Mandelson will promise Clegg nothing, he has nothing to offer him except to become leader of the second largest party and official leader of the opposition status. That will be good enough for Clegg and the Lib Dems. In return, all Clegg has to do is help Cameron and the disappointed Tories form the next government, encourage them behind the scenes to make savage cuts, and then when the time is right, withdraw their support claiming the Tories will harm the economy. This will trigger another general election, Labour will have a new leader in place and will be swept back into power with a healthy majority. The Tories will come third and will be seen as the nasty party of cuts. They will have done Labour’s dirty work at the expense of their own popularity.

It could all be so different, if the Tories were to encourage a Lib Dem/Labour coalition, then within a year, Cameron could sweep to power and watch on as Labour are cast into virtual perpetual third place. The Lib Dems have nothing to lose, either way they will become the second largest party, but, they are a left of center party, they see the Tories as the old enemy, it would be more rewarding for their members and activists to see the Conservatives cast into the wilderness.

As our above title claims, the ‘Tories are walking into a disastrous coalition trap with the Lib Dems’. If they were to stand back and consult the all-seeing wise grass-roots, then a great future could be secured at the expense of Labour and Lord Mandelson.

UPDATE: Gary Gibbon -  Channel 4 Blog – One Tory MP, reluctant like most to be where they find themselves, just said to me, “We feel the hand of history on our gonads, squeezing very hard.” Maybe David Cameron could borrow that line when he addresses the MPs.

Since David Cameron took over the leadership of the Conservative party, a large majority of the party faithful have remained silent, or at least, stifled their concerns about the gradual drift to the ineffective centre ground of British politics. During the heydays of the 1980s David Cameron would have been seen as nothing more than a Tory ’wet’!

We took a risk when Cameron outlined his ideas to take the party forward. We listened, thought about it, and eventually gave him a chance. The chance had a pre-condition, one which David himself highlighted, he said ‘change to win’, the party changed, but we don’t seem to have won! Our core beliefs were not exactly ditched, but they were stuffed away into the cellar, we were told they wouldn’t be needed as the electorate had changed, they would not like our strong opinions on immigration, welfare and financial responsibility. Instead Cameron asked us to embrace the environment and a hoodie, soften our beliefs and show compassion. It seems he was wrong, the public have been fed this line for 13 years, first via Tony Blair, and subsequently by Gordon Brown. It has led the country into a dark abyss, full of pain, uncertainty and fear. The prospect of bankruptcy looms for businesses and despairingly for our nation itself.  Inexplicably, we all seem to understand how we got to where we are, we lost our appetite for our beliefs, our basic core values, as individuals, as a party and even as a nation. We bought in to the destructive apathy of the drippy centre ground.

It would be easy enough to blame David Cameron for this, we could simply tell ourselves he sold us a vision we didn’t want or believe in. But that wouldn’t be true, simply because after the defeats of 97, 2001 and 2005 we were ready to believe in anything that could offer better fortune and a return to government. We could also conclude there was nothing good about the past 4 years under David Cameron, that would also be wrong, the Tory party has seen many changes for good, we are more inclusive and democratic, we have modernised where it was right to modernise, but we have simply gone too far to the left, we have marginalised the silent majority, some have deserted us for other parties, this is especially so on our European policy. Ditching the Lisbon Treaty referendum has deeply divided the party. We agree with modernisation, but not at the exclusion of common sense and moral purpose.

So let’s look to the future, we need to visit the cellar and release our core beliefs, polish them up and display them proudly. But first there is a simple matter of a hung parliament to address, time is ticking away we need a solution and here it is.

Who Goes Home has the following advice for David and our party hierarchy,  -WALK AWAY FROM ANY KIND OF COALITION WITH THE LIB DEMS! – Let Clegg and Brown have enough rope to hang themselves, we will do better to watch a Lib/Lab calamity coalition go about destroying each other - causing colateral harm to our country through disagreement and self serving foolishness. It won’t take long for the public to call a halt to their feckless behaviour, little real damage will have been done to the economy, but, irreparable harm will have been inflicted on the Labour party. They will be punished in a second general election by an unforgiving electorate who will have realised the significance of ‘true Tory values’ as they did in the similarly unstable early1980s. If we try and govern as a coalition or a minority government, we will simply crash and burn!

What a Carry-On!