I must confess that I don't really know if Mr Cameron's endless Blairite pronouncements are really a clever con trick to be revealed as such when he becomes prime minister, but if I were a betting man I'd say no. Nevertheless, one would have thought that the Tories might just make the odd reference to the Laffer Curve or the debate on flat taxes. I don't imagine for a moment that the Conservative party is about to point out that all taxation is immoral, but one does despair when reading this:
... he was set to make plain that sorting out the public finances must take priority over reducing taxes.The public finances will never be "sorted" until there's a massive cut in expenditure.
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guile
nice, cozy place you got here ..
16 February 2006, 02:10:05 GMT
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Kenny McCormack
"Nevertheless, one would have thought that the Tories might just make the odd reference to the Laffer Curve or the debate on flat taxes."
Well you see while that sort of thing might go down well with people like yourself and other like minded people who take an interest in, and are informed on such issues, to Joe Public who will decide the election it is not something they know about or care about.
The British public (both Scots and English) are fairly keen on economic prosperity, but they also love the NHS as it curently is and state schools, and woe betide any party that openly tries to change such things.
27 January 2006, 19:47:08 GMT
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Neil Craig
If he wins by being Blairite I don't think he will change. You don't change a winning formula.
I don't think Cameron can win by proving that he is Blairite but Brown might lose by proving that he isn't.
27 January 2006, 18:13:01 GMT
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