10 good reasons why Dave must go.

1.   At the last general election the Tories were shooting at an open goal. The UK had the worst administration since Lord North; it was not just disliked. It was loathed. There should have been a Tory landslide, but Dave didn’t even get a majority. The only possible reason must have been the leadership. People were looking for a firm hand. And what did they get? Wet Dave! I predict that the Labour Party at the next election will be led by Yvette Cooper with Balls as Shadow Chancellor. They will make a formidable couple. Dave will lose. He must go soon so that the Tories can get a hard man in position well before the Election. David Davies would fit the specs and will not be contaminated by association with the awful coalition.

2.   He brought in cuts to essential services and simultaneously increased foreign aid, not just a bit but a whacking 37%. Why? A sop to the Libs? Completely inexplicable, which is probably why he has never bothered to explain it.

3.   His stunt to intervene in the pricing of alcohol is typical Socialist dogma and a piece of nanny-statism. It won’t affect consumption in the 29 bars and restaurants in the Palace of Westminster.  And where did the information about an increase in liver disease come from? What is the evidence that this was caused by excessive drinking? By what percentage has it increased? What are the numbers? What are the regional differences? Here is Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times: ‘The number of units of alcohol consumed each week by the average British adult is down by about 20% over the past five years. The number of those exceeding the recommended amount is down by about a quarter over the same period. The number of those at the extreme end has dropped by a third over the past five years; crimes of violence connected with the consumption of alcohol have dropped by about a quarter in the same period’. Tony Blair was always trailing these daft ideas, and Dave said he was the heir to Blair!

4.   He could have slashed civil service numbers simply by a recruitment freeze, especially in the Ministry of Defence which had more civvies than the armed forces have uniforms even before the cuts. He could have cut back salaries to decent levels and got rid of ‘bonuses’ that raise top salaries to obscene levels.

5.   We expect Tories to support our armed forces against the hostility of lefties. Instead they have made the UK more defenceless than at any time in history including the ‘disarmament’ 30’s. Dave’s cuts amount almost to sabotage, especially in the middle of a particularly nasty war.

6.   And he could have got us out of Afghanistan about 2 years and numbers of unnecessary casualties ago.

7.   When Dave fired Lt. Col Patrick Mercer as shadow Defence Secretary for saying that skiving black soldiers might be inclined to  play the race card, it was obvious that Dave had more concern for his standing amongst the Notting Hill chatterati than the defence of the realm, and he established himself as irredeemably PC.

8.   A Tory who is not a libertarian is not a Tory. Dave has not done one single thing to roll back the oppressive legislation of the Blair years that undermine our freedoms and criminalise us all. At a stroke of a pen he could rid us of the dreaded European Arrest Warrant by exercising our opt-out. And he could have fixed it with his new-found buddy Obama so that the extradition treaty (that only applies one way and which was agreed as an anti-terrorist measure but has not been used for this once) would be scrapped. He could remind O that not one single IRA terrorist was extradited from the US, and we are fed up with being America’s satrap.

9.   He promised to make a bonfire of quangos, executive agencies and other drones. What is the record? They seem to be still with us. Instead of abolishing the ludicrous Borders Agency (even the name is daft; we are an island so we don’t have any borders) in the wake of the recent scandal, we now have two. Immigration should be back in the Home Office where the Home Secretary can be held responsible.

10.               He could have come up with a sensible immigration policy that, for example, would not admit any asylum seeker who had already passed through another safe country en route to UK, and which would have required that work permits could only be applied for from outside the UK, as is the case in many countries. He could have ridden roughshod over ECHR rulings that prevent the deportation of criminals, as the French would. And he could have opted out of the ECJ jurisdiction (whatever happened to the promised scrapping of the Human Rights Act?).