LET THE LEADERSHIP CONTEST COMMENCE!
Cameron fails to mute chorus of discontent
The astoundingly dull and uninspiring address of PM Cameron to the
delegates in Birmingham inadvertently throws open the door to the contest for a
suitable successor.
His rhetorical brilliance was exhausted with the hollow exclamation that "Britain is the greatest country in the world." The audience remained visibly bored and unimpressed, for everyone in the hall knows that America is the greatest country in the world. Implicitly Cameron acknowledged Labour's 13-year term in governmentas preserver of "Britain as greatest country in the world."
Cameron has made clear yet again that he is of the calibre
of a junior minister in Whitehall, but unconvincing to lead Party nor
country. As flat-footed the delivery of his speech was, as ominous were the messages
contained in it. He will oversee the break-up of the United Kingdom, banks on
the construction of a fiercely opposed third runway of Heathrow, supported to
the end a treacherous yet aborted merger of BAE and EADS against better advice
of many, including this office, shrugs off serious warnings about the economy
from the IMF as recently as yesterday, evades the calls for a clear and viable
stand against attempts of the EU to undermine British sovereignty and showed
remarkable ignorance of challengers emerging around him.
He is the wrong man for the right time. The Party has several logical
candidates to succeed Cameron, from Theresa May, (once again) William Hague, Dr
Liam Fox, David Davies and - naturally - Boris Johnson. One scenario favoured by
me is that the Conservatives accept a care-taker leader and prime minister Liam
Fox, until the London mayor's term expires and Boris captures a parliamentary
seat in 2015.
With the prospect alone that Boris Johnson would become prime minister if
elected would boost the Tories' share of votes by 8-10 per cent in 2015.
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