More Tory election
There's a new YouGov poll in the D.Telegraph of Conservative party members which shows Cameron has an overwhelming lead. It also shows that the drug allegations are widely believe to be by the Davis camp, or that Davis has deliberatedly not distanced himself from that, and that this has widely rebounded on Davis.There's a slightly interesting quirk in the voting that if Fox faced Davis in the run-off he would win, but Davis scores better against Cameron. Anyway it's Cameron all the way.
I think my concerns are similar to Jamie's, which is that Cameron is basically a media-figure, he's worked in the media, he has a lot of friends in the media, and his rise has been essentially media driven. So if things go wrong, and clearly this could be policy-driven or personally-driven (or photographically-driven), his descent could be as rapid.
On the subject of drugs, I don't really understand why the press haven't asked him questions about his view on the issues as a matter of public policy, for example "Do you believe jail terms should be given to middle-class users of Class-A". This surely would be harder to refuse to answer? Also, the poll asks about use as a 'student'. This seems quite specific, given the man worked for years in the meejda.
Update: David Davis has now said he won't discuss even drugs policy for the rest of the campaign. What a decent man. Of course his supporters are a liberty to do what they want. I was wondering, if Cameron does become leader, will any MPs resign the party whip? Surely Andrew Rosindell, who demanded Kate Moss be sacked as "It gives teenagers completely the wrong impression when someone who they look up to is caught taking hard drugs and is able to carry on regardless", and "zero toleranace", could not carry on?
posted by Matthew @ 10/20/2005 07:12:00 AM
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