Four years ago, when the Conservative Party elected me as Leader, we made a choice about the way our Party should be.
We made a choice to be modern and radical – not to play it safe or retreat into the old comfort zone. Today, the Conservative Party is modern and radical – and that’s the way it’s going to stay.
Britain is crying out for a modern and radical alternative to this failed Labour Government. Under Gordon Brown, this country is going in the wrong direction and we need big changes to turn things around. We have the biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history. We’ve got massive social problems. And we’ve got a political system that’s been dragged through the dirt. We cannot solve these problems unless we are bold and radical.
So as I explain in this video, we have made our choice and we’re not going back. Our plans for our country are not timid, and the truth is they cannot be. The Conservative Party is a modern and radical party – and our modern and radical values are what this country urgently needs.
When Labour came into power in 1997, millions of people had high hopes that Britain would become a stronger, fairer society. Of course, Labour did have some good intentions – but, in the end, they just didn’t deliver.
But that doesn’t mean those hopes have to die. They’re now alive with us in the modern Conservative Party – as David Cameron explains in the video below:
As Cameron says
Many, many people are joining us to help make the changes we need in this country. We’re winning the argument on the economy and on building a fairer society.
So, thirteen years on, I’m asking you to go into this election with an open mind. I’m asking you to think about voting for us – even if you’ve never voted Tory before.
A rather good article from Matthew Parris in response to Fraser Nelson’s more strident thoughts.
His summing up is correct. The Tories need to be patient to effect the real change we want to make to this country. Going in with all guns blasting will not work.
Yes, political courage is needed; but no, all that is needed is not political courage. Patience, reticence and good timing are needed too, and discretion can be the better part of valour. If (like me) you are sure that David Cameron does not lack valour, and if you’re confident his heart and head are in a good Tory place, then give him that discretion
An ICM poll for the News of the World has the Tories on 45% Labour on 26 % and the also ran Lib Dems on 18%, so the Tories are polling more than Labour and the Lib Dems combined. This should give the Tories about a 180 seat majority in Parliament.
It is also as high as the Tories have ever scored with ICM, they have twice been on 45% before but have never exceeded it.
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