Future of the the tory party

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This is letter a wrote to the Tory leader a few weeks ago, I thought is was pretty good so I've decided to post it here. Enjoy.

 

Dear Mr. Ian Duncan Smith

                          I see myself as a Tory however I was repulsed away

from the supporting the Party during the leadership of William Hague with

his populist and crude manifesto and message. Whilst I have decided on the

back of the early months of your leadership to support you again, I dislike

your approached to social issues.

The opening months of your leadership have seen you capitulate to the

"Liberal" Establishment in areas such as "multiculturalism", dealing with

homosexuals, the poor and women in a way that undermines your strongest

strength your honesty and integrity. People see you embracing a creed and

vocabulary that they see as alien to you. They see it that you are lying,

hiding your distaste on social issues to get elected. It makes you seem

slimly and dishonest.

Also in your rush to persuade people that you are "inclusive" you whether by

accident or by design confirming the idea that the Conservatives have always

been a homophobic, racist, sexist, an anti-poor party and one that has

always cut public spending. All of these are lies, and to see you support

them or at the very least them stand is very disheartening and mystifying as

it undermines your own efforts to redefine the party.

The Conservative has never been the anti-poor party of myth. It was the Tory

Lord Shaftesbury who pushed through reforms in both the mines and

mills/factories that guaranteed safety for the poor workers. It was the

Conservative Rab Butler who in 1944 passed the Education Act that finally

gave everyone a free Education. It was Harold Macmillan who as the minister

in charge of houses built 300,000 houses that housed those made homeless as

a result of the blitz and of course Marget Thatcher who not only gave the

"working class" their council houses at a cheap price but also help give the

moderate workers their Trade Unions back from the militants.

I do not suggest you are ignorant of this most impressive resume of help to

the "working classes" but I do suggest your are not using this tradition

enough. It should be used as a foundation for your appeal to the poor and

"working class" especially when compared to Labour's utopian but malign

projects such as the NHS, the "Comprehensive" Schooling System and

Nationalisation.

It is of course completely unfair that the Conservatives are seen as racist.

Let's remind ourselves that with the exceptions of the Kenyans in 1969

almost all post war waves of mass immigration from the Commonwealth have

come under a time when a Conservative Government was in power, indeed a

Conservative Government invited them to come to fill our vacant jobs. And

while everyone is very keen to point up Enoch Powel's speech as proof of

Tory racism they forget to mention that it was the Dockers who matched in

support of him and that the Labour Party was quite happy to receive his

endorsement in the 1974 election that almost certainly cost Heath the

election.

However the way to prove that we are not racist is not to blindly accept all

of Labour's mad schemes and ideas like quotas and multiculturalism but to

reject them and put our own across our ideas on racial harmony that are

unmistakably Tory.

The idea of racial minority quotas should not be (as you have) meekly

accepted or even acknowledge as a respectable part of the debate they should

be lambasted for what they truly are divisive and patronising. The best way

to get good race relations is to be colour blind not as this measure to be

even more colour conscience (or racialist as I like to call it). This

measure is sheer folly and like the witch hunts following the McPherson

report will undoubtedly help racists and the likes of the BNP.

Also multiculturalism should be fought with a passion. Multiculturalism by

its very nature brings forth division and ghettoisation and in many places

has lead to de facto segregation between the races with each race having its

own schools, hospitals, etc, etc.

Multiculturalism encourages the Balkanisation of the country into the

different races with no share allegiance. Also it makes no sense, for a

country to function it needs to have a common language and a single set of

laws that reflect the moral standards of the majority while respecting the

rights of any given minority. The Conservative Party should reject

Multiculturalism and instead champion an alternative an Uniculturalism that

includes everyone. This Uniculturalism should be based on the British

Idenity and the  Judaeo-Christian values of the overwhelming majority while

integrating any immigrants and ethnic minorities into this. This should not

stop say Afri-Caribbeans celebrating their identity but it should be done in

a British Cultural framework just as someone might go about celebrating

their Northerness. It is possible to integrate different cultures into our

largely Christian Protestant Society just look at the success in integrating

Catholics and Jews into our society. Today no one would think of having

quotas for Catholics (outside of Ulster of course) but 20 years ago during

the discussions about the Race Discrimination Act Catholics (and Jews) were

considered for special protection.

The Conservative Party should tell the truth about immigration, that there

are no such things as genuine asylum seekers in regard to Britain, Britain

is simply too secluded from the third world for anyone facing persecution to

come straight to us without going through a whole range of safe countries.

However we should not pretend that this is happening because we are a soft

touch, an asylum seeker will get almost double in France while his

application is being processed than he will in Britain. No the reason why

people want to come to this country is our culture or a shared history due

to the British Empire (this can be used to back up Uniculturalism). The

Conservative Party should spell out the truth over why we accept immigrants;

because they are beneficial to us (to the equivalent of 1p on income tax),

they fill in gaps of our work force and contribute new ideas and customs to

our nation. However we should also make sure that before any immigrants are

accepted that make a promise to enter classes to learn English as an

inability to speak English not only stop integration but also makes the

provision of services to these communities more expensive for local councils

which provokes antipathy in the local population. Also the Conservative

Party to help integration should bring proposals for a World Religion and

Peoples lesson in schools where not only would pupils learn about the

history different people but also different religions maybe even go to local

synagogues, mosques or Churches of different denominations. Also in places

with large Ethnic Minority Populations the Twinning Experiments that have

been tried in many cities should be repeated on a national scale.

Also the Conservative Party should stand up against the Race Relations

Industry that is doing more harm than good. All "hate" crimes should be

taken off the statue book replaced by a crime of Verbal Assault and

Intimidation as the motive of a crime should never change the sentence

given. For the same reason the crime "to incite racial hatred" should be

abolished. The Conservative Party must make clear that Freedom of Speech

although welcome and needed does mean allowing those you find repugnant the

chance to have their say. It should also abolished the Racial Equality

Commission replacing it with a Judicial Tribunal and redraft the law on

Racial Discrimination to not only be more precise but to include Gender and

Sexual Orientation.

On your attitude to Homosexuals and Homosexuality it is true that many

Conservatives have and still are hostile to them but this is true are every

political party especially the Labour Party with its Trade Union membership

base. Indeed as an article last year in the Sunday Telegraph pointed out

that many homosexuals have taken office in the Conservative Party. It should

also be noted that it was a Liberal Government who criminalised gay sex and

it was a Conservative bill that legalised it, and also that it was the

Thatcher Government that allowed the BBC to devote a whole night's

programming to Sex Education against aids, that disproportionately affects

homosexuals.

Of course this is not to pretend that the Tory Party's relationship with the

gay community has always been good. Things like Section 28 were undoubtedly

pursued due to homophobia although this was provoked by "Loony Left"

councils providing reckless and dangerous sex education literature. It is

true that children need protecting from militant homosexual activist who

always have an agenda beyond just getting equality for their sexual

orientation, however the law that provides this protection should be

outlined in a more precise way so that teachers can feel secure in helping

any homosexual student that comes to them for help and that it allows even

handed sexual education classes to help those with their orientation who

have not "come out" to a teacher and also how to homosexual sex without

contracted STDs. The law should also be pan-sexual so that instead of being

a homophobic law (that would almost certainly collapse under legal

challenge) it is a fair law protecting children from not only those who

would confuse their sexuality but those who would give them a homophobic

outlook to life.

Also with the Conservative Party's outlook to adult homosexual life it

should not embrace the Labour method of treating "homosexuals" as a separate

group and should certainly reject any notion of quotas for gay parliamentary

candidates. You should instead say that you don't care about a person's

sexuality and only want the best person for the job. You should however

bring out detailed proposals on how to combat homophobia. You should as I

have said reform Section 28, but also address other issues like protection

from homophobic discrimination by employees and give long-term partners the

same rights as married heterosexual couples. Ideally the giving of such

employment rights could be done in the framework of marriage (which would

also stop permissive society using homosexuals as a battering ram against

marriage) although this may be too radical so some form of partnership

register would have to be used. One last thing on this subject, refer to

homosexuals as homosexuals not as people with "different sexual

orientations" it seems false that you can't even bring yourself to say

"homosexuals" and makes homosexuals wary of you and your efforts to woo

them.

Also while you should try to get more women to be candidates for you, you

should not fall into the tokenism of Labour. The best candidate should

always get the seat and if this candidate happens to be a Working Class

Young Asian Lesbian then fine but no better than if the candidate happens to

be a Middle Class, Middle Aged, White Man whose happily married with three

kids. Although saying that I would set up committees in central office for

Women, Homosexuals and Ethnic Minorities and take away from Local

Associations the power to select candidates at least until the membership

becomes more representative.

Lastly I think the Conservative Party should attack the dead consensus on

both Health and Education, both of which have failed the British Public. The

current Stalinist systems run from Whitehall have in both cases produced

three-tear systems.

In Health we now face a system where those who can take out private

insurance, some when faced with a long waiting list for an operation they

need (like my dad) dip into their life savings and pay for it leaving the

poor and the working class to wait 18 months for an operation. Now how is

that a fair system on the "socialist" principles of helping the poor? This

is a system that has failed after good money has been poured in, that now to

find the money to build half decent hospitals we have to build them on the

never-never and to get patients treated within 2 years we have to send them

abroad or private.

Now not being an expert on Health I don't know what to replace it with

however I know the NHS isn't working and will never work and nor should you

being afraid of admitting it. So next time Tony Blair tells the house you

want to "destroy the NHS" just "go so what?". The NHS today is just like the

state owned industries of China kept artificially alive for political

reasons.

Also don't let Labour say that the Conservatives have underfunded the NHS.

Remind people that it was the Labour Party who introduced Prescription and

Optician Charges not the Conservatives that under the Thatcher/Major

governments health spending rose by 70%. Also really put the point over that

this country actually matches the amount spent by the government in

countries like France and Germany it is the lack of additional private

sector funding that leaves us lagging behind.

On Education it is becoming clear that a three-tear is being created maybe

by design. At the moment the rich go private, with the middle classes going

to nice (and selective) Faith/Church schools while paying for after school

tuition leaving the rest in the bog standard Inner City "Comprehensives".

The Conservative Party should be brave enough to challenge this system and

return to some form of selection on the basis of intelligence although not

exactly like the II+. You should put out the message that a Comprehensive

form of schooling is not giving everyone the same type of education but

giving everyone the education that they need. You should also carry this on

to University attacking the increasingly ridiculous idea that almost

everyone needs to go. You should grasp the nettle and make big changes to

exams, which are plainly getting easier and also change the syllabus, which

leaves many students even higher students unable to spell or do mental

arithmetic. You should bring back discipline into the schools maybe even

consider bringing back the cane as the disruption a minority causes is

incredible. Unlike those that get misty eyed about the current system I know

that the present system is in a rut as still in school and can see that

despite the best efforts of teachers the system is letting lots of people

down.

        I know I've wrote about a lot and I hope you don't take offence to a

school child giving you advice its just that I think that despite your solid

start your making mistakes that will leave you open to attack. Whilst I

think your right to reach out to minorities I think it should be done in a

distinctly Tory way (just as Labour repackaged the free market in a Social

Democratic way) and that you shouldn't try and play up "Liberal" myths about

the Conservatives to show how far you have come.

 

 

William

[Guest Some Guy]

I agree with this guy on a lot of his points and feel the smae way about the Republican Party in America.  The GOP has allowed the Left to create a new words (no matter how stupid) and then use them, they allow the Left to castigate Conservatives as racist and anti-poor and never fight back, despite evidence to the contrary being quite evident.  The GOP allows the Left to propose stupid and indulgent bill like Campaign Finance Reforma and rather than state that the bill in unconstitutional they sign the bill.  This stuff really bothers me.  The Conservatives need to take the offensive, rather than constantly trying to fend off teh Left's attacks and frivolous bills.  They have to propose there own bills and make them law and NOT let the Dems take the credit for it.

[Guest]

I completely agree, but the traditional nature of conservatives is not to be outspoken, but to keep opinions to themselves...despite claims by liberals that they impose their will on others and are close minded.  I do wish the GOP would take a more active approach, however.

[Guest ant_7000]

Im a liberial and I disagree with some of the issues of the Tory party, but I don't believe in some the myths of the conservative party far as homophobic, racism, and sexism is concerned.

[Guest Some Guy]

Im a liberial and I disagree with some of the issues of the Tory party, but I don't believe in some the myths of the conservative party far as homophobic, racism, and sexism is concerned.

Good.

 

 

My problem is that we Conservatives just sit here and take all the Left's shit and meakly fight back on a national scale, when we should bring the fight to them. Expose the facts of failure of Leftist policies, show how "The Great Society" had failed at every turn and expansion and that it's time to try something new, etc...