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br> Fayette, Iowa /p> p> The Conservatives have been voting with their feet. Most people who leave Britain now are Thatcher Tories who seek better lives abroad. This both diminishes and dilutes the Conservative party. (Similar to the Roe effect with Democrats.) It's sad the best they can come up with is a Lincoln Chafee Republican. br> -- Donald Parnell /p>

In "Twisted Tory" by Hal G.P. Colebatch, we see an accurate summary of the current and longer-term political climate in these once great British Islands. I often lament the absence of a homegrown leader rising to take on and fight against the shared misery that is born from socialism. I could pull out many nuggets from this article. For example, in presenting one of David Cameron's fiscal ideologies that tax cuts will not be a priority (i.e. not before economic stability -- as we are often told), Mr. Colebatch eloquently reminds me of a tenet of socialism, which is that socialists define the gap between rich and poor as how high is the highest salary and then reduce it. Conservatives otherwise once defined the gap as how well the poor enter the middle class. For the "new" Tories to refer to "no tax cuts without economic stability" is deeply worrying. It is as if they believe the former is an evil and mutually exclusive from economic stability. What does economic stability mean anyway in these days of global competition? Quite frankly, any kind of sound economic foresight that sidelines nihilistic dogma would be welcome after so many years of profligate Mr. Brown.

Socialism hides under a veneer of utopian idealism and Mr. Cameron would appear to be doing the same. In socialism we continually witness an insidious invasion against promise, opportunity, hope, exploration and freedom. Looking in from the outside as this article does illustrates the influence that is the EU. Describing the distinct possibility that Britain's future is as an impoverished, broken-backed socialist state can take its cue from old Europe. Take a look!

p>My only disagreement with Mr. Colebatch lies in his optimistic statement, namely: "The best hope for Britain is that Cameron is untruthful" -- somehow reverting to Conservative values and ethic once in power. I will not hold my breath but continue to look for a leader who has had a life outside of politics, who is grounded in reality, truly wants to help people and who steps up to the mark because he believes the country needs saving, again, and to hell with popularity. br> -- Graham Constable br> Oxford, England /p> p> THE KURDISH OPTION

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