DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Who will speak for the Tory Party?  

By DAILY MAIL COMMENT

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Yesterday, in response to the crushing of any dissenting voices against Mr Cameron’s determination to keep Britain in an unreformed EU, the Mail asked: ‘Who will speak for England’?

Today we ask: ‘Is there anyone who will speak up for the Conservative Party?’

The question is prompted by the extraordinary revelation that the Prime Minister has told his MPs to ignore the views of their constituency associations when deciding whether to back him in the referendum campaign.

Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured, has never felt truly at home with the conservative grass roots 

Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured, has never felt truly at home with the conservative grass roots 

Perhaps this is no surprise. The Prime Minister has never truly felt at ease with Tory loyalists – people his old Oxford chum, tennis partner and now multi-millionaire Tory Party chairman Lord Feldman once described as ‘mad, swivel-eyed loons’.

   

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First Mr Cameron imposed his A-list of centrally chosen candidates – so many of whom turned out to be bitter disappointments – on constituencies against their wishes.

Then he rode roughshod over their opposition to legalising gay marriage.

Now he has told MPs to disregard what they say on Europe. Their crime? They are mostly eurosceptic and disagree with their leader’s claim that he has achieved radical reform with his proposed EU deal.

So there you have it. The party activists – the unsung heroes of local Conservative politics – are told their views don’t count.

This is the same Prime Minister who is also muzzling his eurosceptic ministers. He mouths fine words about wanting the fullest debate on a vote which will shape our destiny as a sovereign nation, but at the same time stamps on any dissent.

The sad fact is that rather than listen to the passionately-held opinions of ordinary Tories, Mr Cameron is siding with Britain’s Establishment elites; big business, the universities, the banks, the Civil Service and the BBC.

All are engaged in a relentless propaganda campaign to terrify voters into believing it would be a catastrophe if Britain left the EU.

Deeply-held concerns about loss of sovereignty over our borders, laws and economy are brushed aside.

But Britain’s elitist institutions want to stick with Brussels because they are kindred spirits – convinced they have a divine right to do as they please without being held to account.

But then, of course, they are the people who know best.

Significantly yesterday, Sir Konrad Schiemann, senior British judge at the European Court, made a mockery of Mr Cameron’s reforms, saying none would have legal force without treaty change, something that’s extremely unlikely.

And as to our much-vaunted exemption from ‘ever-closer union’, he said that would ‘not achieve anything in particular’.

The truth is that Brussels has conceded nothing of any importance and Mr Cameron’s radical reforms are a charade.

Shackled eurosceptic ministers know it, his backbenchers know it and so do thousands of ordinary party members.

The arrogant bank 

Speaking of arrogant, unaccountable elitist organisations, US bank Goldman Sachs, once dubbed the vampire squid for its predatory behaviour, claimed yesterday that a British exit from the EU would lead to a collapse in the pound.

Apart from the fact that prominent economists have said the opposite, why should we believe this scaremongering?

US bank Goldman Sachs, once dubbed the vampire squid was once fined billions for mis-selling toxic loans 

US bank Goldman Sachs, once dubbed the vampire squid was once fined billions for mis-selling toxic loans 

This is the bank that was fined billions for mis-selling toxic mortgage securities and advised on Greece’s disastrous switch from the drachma to the euro. It is also a major donor to the ‘In’ campaign.

And even if the Goldman claims were true – which the Mail doesn’t believe – with the price of commodities and oil at a historic low, a weaker pound could actually be an asset to British exporters.

 

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