CAMERON SEES CLEAR BLUE WATER

David Cameron's speech at this week's
Tory Party Conference focused not so
much on having delivered the country
from near bankruptcy. Instead, its theme
was more the promised land of
opportunity for all if a Conservative
government were elected with a clear
working majority.

Such an outcome would unfetter David
Cameron, who has been constrained by
the Lib-Dems, from taking action in key
policy areas to address Labour's
catastrophic legacy. 

It  was against the background of Ed
Miliband's speech a week earlier. In it 
David Cameron created clear blue water
between Labour and the Conservatives.
Voters are now in no doubt that the
Labour Leader espouses his father's
Marxist ideology. The Tories,on the
other hand, see only one way out of 
the economic and social abyss: wealth
creation.

In his seventy-five minute offering,
learnt by heart, he abandoned the
political centre ground of Tony Blair's
New Labour. It was a lurch to the left,
in which he used the language of old 
Labour, of the command and control
economy. Price controls for energy and 
state confiscation of land from
developers, who fail to obey government
dictat, job guarantees, higher minimum
wage, yet more taxes on higher incomes
and an unworkable, so-called mansion tax. 

It was a move that obviously delighted
Len McClusky, militant  boss of trade
union UNITE, Labour's paymaster and
the one who orchestrated Ed Miliband's
appointment as Party leader, over his
more talented brother, David.

Miliband's puppet-master, course,
welcomed Labour's sharp change of
direction, back to its ideological roots
of the 1918 Clause 1V: common
ownership of the means of production,
exchange and distribution.

Miliband's dog-whistle appeal to
Labour's core supporters and the
left-leaning immigrant vote cleared the
crowded centre-ground of UK politics.
This has had the effect of defining
Labour and Conservatives at opposite
ends of the political spectrum, bringing
a new clarity to politics.

In doing so the Labour leader gave
David Cameron the kind of ideological
room for manoever that had not existed
since the time of Margaret Thatcher. It
was an unexpected gift which the Prime
Minister accepted with relish. 

He contrasted Labour's disastrous tax,
borrow and spend policies with those
of a future Tory-majority government.
The Tories' key objectives are to
achieve a budget surplus by 2020 and
create wealth by promoting business
in a free-market economy.  

This will only be possible if the UK
either leaves, or has a very different
relationship with the EU, as it moves
towards a federal state. Here, voters
remain uncertain whether David
Cameron will deliver on this most
fundamental of issues.