Er, has anybody seen the Conservative party conference?

Only, I've been looking for it everywhere but all I came across was some TV reportage showing a hall full of men in blue suits preaching socialism, well, except for one lady the other day who spent the entire afternoon indulging in political self-flagellation.  Yesterday there was a very excitable young man in a blue suit - natch! - who was boasting about how much his government intended to give away to everyone.  Surely, I thought, this can't be the Conservative party.  On the other hand it obviously wasn't the new, exciting Labour party either because they were all well-dressed and no-one was spitting at anyone.  It can't have been the 'il-Lib-non-Dems' because they are now just a figment of the imagination of some wild-eyed ex-preacher who thinks he's the leader because no-one has told him that to all intents and purposes they no longer exist.

To be slightly serious for a moment, the Tories have, in effect, complied with the precept of the great military philosopher, Carl von Clausewitz, who advised that the main aim of any commander was to destroy the enemy - not just push them back, but destroy them utterly.  This, to his gob-smacked amazement, 'Dim Dave' has executed.  The Lib-Dems have gone, UKIP failed to get more than one foot on the battlefield and the remnants of the Labour party are running in circles pursued, not by Tories, but by their own peasant mobs.  Thus, 'Dim Dave' stands supreme on the battlefield.  It's not so much that the day is his, it's the fact that the next ten years minimum are his. 

So, it is slight comfort for me to see that he is complying with my assessment of him over the years in that having beaten the socialists to a pulp he is now a socialist himself.  As the ever astute Dan Hodges sums up in the title to his piece in the Telegraph, "David Cameron is the new leader of the British Left".  Even the Left have begun to realise it with several leading Lefties 'twittering' each other to the effect that they cannot see any reason not to vote Tory in the future.

So stand by, here comes another of my forecasts and when it happens remember you read it here first: the next big political split will be on the right!

 

 

Comments

[Whyaxye]

"Thus, 'Dim Dave' stands supreme on the battlefield. It's not so much that the day is his, it's the fact that the next ten years minimum are his."

Well, they could have been, except for the fact that the silly man announced that he will not go for a third term. No great loss in itself, as he is clearly a man without any ideological principles of his own, but everyone is now focused on Osborne, May, and Johnson. As you say, the interest is now on who will lead the right centre, and who will lead the traditional right.

[jimmy glesga]

David. Try the Parliament Channel. I am sure I watched Dave's speech on it. Not a bad speech.

[David Duff]

His announcement concerning his early retirement, 'W', is precisely why I always refer to him as 'Dim Dave'. No leader announces his retirement plans that early!

Jimmy, if *you* approved of the speech then I'm seriously worried!

[jimmy glesga]

David, I would not lie about my opinion even if I agree with a Tory. I leave the lies and deceipt to the Corbinites. Cameron summed up Corbyn pretty well.