Panic, don't panic!
Apparently it's only 2-6 MPs out of the 200 or so, but the Telegraph reports there are plans to call for a vote of no confidence in David Cameron. This really is the politics of panic, particularly as the latest poll still puts them on 35%. I don't know what these MPs imagined Gordon Brown was going to do when in office - nationalise all Tory voters wives and replace the Queen with Arthur Scargill?
Elsewhere, Patience Wheatcroft demand government money to come to the aid of failed private pensions. This may be a good idea, and limitations of FAS are clear, but it seems a strange thing for someone usually so keen on keeping down government spending and letting the market work to be advocating. Matthew d'Ancona, a Cameron loyalist I think, says the Tories would be mad to lose "Dave". He claims, rather ludicrously, on the back of remarks from someone in the Shadow Cabinet (Michael Gove seems the most likely) that Brown is fighting, "Wiliam Hague's 2001 election campaign". Iain Martin just declares, "it's so unfair", apparently as Brown is not being given a real fight. Finally the Telegraph's leader stays loyal too, arguing that "division is disaster", which given New Labour's turbulant Blair years perhaps isn't so true as it once was.
posted by Matthew @ 7/22/2007 08:40:00 AM
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