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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