Wishful Thinking

Despite Miliband's increase of popularity in the polls it is hard to see him as a Prime Minister. I thought the same of Blair but found I was in a minority. I still feel the same about Blair as I felt in 1997 and so maybe should apply for Steve Hilton's old job. Apparently he was the only one of Cameron's circle who hates socialists. According to an article I read only the other day, but I can't remember where, hatred can apparently be a great asset in politics and this was one of Brown's great strengths. He loathed Tories viscerally and spent his time thinking of ways to wrong step them. He succeeded too but his stratagem is in large part responsible for the mess we're in. He couldn't loathe Tories more than I loathe socialists and I would be more than happy to work for Cameron and to use my hatred to think of all sorts of ways to show the socialists for the sanctimonious, bossy, statist, hypocrites they are. Nothing would please me more than to set traps for them to fall into. Cameron and his crew are simply too genteel, too decent even to have that passionate kind of hatred that can eat away at one's insides. Hatred though makes you a bad debater. Better to be totally in control of one's mind and emotions. Better still to be articulate, to have a ready wit, a good memory and an idea of the direction in which you want to travel. The jury is out on whether Cameron fits the bill. I hope he will though since to have another socialist government will be a tragedy for the country. We cannot withstand another dose of tax and spend, to give the mismanagement of the Blair/Brown years its unspun correct name, at least until we have sorted out the really terrible mess they left us. If there were any justice in this world Labour would slither away from the scene in shame and be replaced by a revived Liberal party which won't necessarily tax and spend when it gets into power.