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Mary Ann Sieghart in the Times “Can someone please help the Tory Party to rediscover its identity”

Makes the point that every Tory MP she speaks to, finds the thought of ID Cards obnoxious, as that is the case then why on earth do they not say so, apparently the problem is Michael Howard who tried to introduce these cards when he was home sectary and now he is leader the Tory policy is not to oppose the introduction, but to try to make things difficult for the government by asking awkward questions.
“You would have thought that a party whose fundamental tenet is that “the people should be big and the State should be small” would not have the slightest difficulty. The Tories must oppose ID cards on principle.

For this is a scheme which will give the State unprecedented access to information about its citizens. One glance into a policeman’s iris recognition machine could tell him how much you earned last year, whether you suffer from depression, what benefits you claim and what your recent movements have been.
You won’t even need to produce your card for the police to find out all your secrets. They will be able to keep tabs on us without even encountering us on the street. If we move house or live with a friend for a few months, we shall be obliged to notify them, on pain of a huge fine. Can this really be Britain we are talking about?

The Conservatives were swept back to power in 1951 on the promise that they would scrap the hugely unpopular wartime ID cards. We are not at war now, and the reintroduction of these cards is a manifestation of the least attractive nanny-state tendencies of this overweening Government.”

This does seem to be the Tory position on many fronts, instead of making their policies based on solid Conservative values and building a consensus in the country for that view and those policies, they want to appear to be opposing the government without opposing the policies the government is introducing.
This policy of not having policies is making it very difficult for the ordinary man or woman in the street to understand exactly what the Tory stance is on any issue, and making natural Tory supporters turn away in frustration at the lack of any real solid policy that everybody can support and then going out and selling those ideas to the people.

The Tory policy on the EU is to stand against the Constitution and to return one or two of the powers they have already given up to EU control, the fact that opposition to the Constitution itself will not stop the integration tendencies only at best delay them, or that to have any powers returned will need the agreement of all 25 member states governments, undermines that policy, so it is meaningless as a policy of our government, it only looks at some of the symptoms and does nothing to address the real problems of the EU. It is also not a natural Conservative territory which is not to give away powers of government or to remove the power of the people to elect their own government but to stand for the freedoms this present government is removing as fast as it can to protect the British people and the British Constitution. The fact that Ted Heath was a traitor to theses basic conservative beliefs can be no reason for true conservatives to go along with the continual unaccountable rule from the EU, that he set in train when he lied to the British public in the 1970s.

It is really up to the true conservatives to make the party electable again, and they will not do that by standing on the sidelines sneering at what is happening, they need a big idea on the grounds of true conservative values of freedom and self-determination and they need to promote that idea and face down the opposition whether it comes from the BBC the Guardian or the Labour party. They need to take back their natural ground from this administration and they need to make it clear that a vote for the Conservative party is a vote for freedom and a vote for Britain and the British peoples soverignty.

But none of this can have a chance of happening until those people who are followers of the Heath path to the destruction of this country are eradicated from the party and that will not happen until Conservative are convinced that the people of this country will not give them the chance of power until they see some real defendable conservative policies