Paul Linford alerts me to a paragraph from Michael Portillo's increasingly pathetic Sunday Times column this week. It is proof positive that Portillo's detachment from the Conservative Party is now more or less completed. He says..."The Bromley result will strengthen the hand of those who believe local parties should be free to opt out of Cameron’s modernising programme where it does not suit. That argument is made in respect of Scotland, Wales, northern England, the shires and suburban London, which would make the capital’s metropolitan heart the only go area left for modernisers. Cameron cannot accept that and will lose heavily if he does. More bloodshed within the party lies ahead. Let us hope so, anyway."
This from a man who knows all about creating mayhem within a Party. But it is so deliciously ironic that he seems to wish the Conservative Party ill at the very time it is carrying forward much of the agenda he himself was promulgating. I almost feel sorry for him. He's obviously got 'issues'.
Could not agree more I refer to his Sunday rantings as Portillo's pathetic postulations. Stating the bleeding obvious in as many words as possible. Anyone who can share a sofa with Diane Abbot and take her seriously has to be taken with a bag of salt. Every dog has it's day and Portillo's day has come and gone. As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
ReplyDeletePortillo is gliding into the twighlight - he is that arrogant that he thinks people are still interested in him now that he is a has been. When he was an MP their was always the chance of a come back - that has evaporated and he has lost all credibility. I bet by the end of the parliament he has lost most of his media jobs and becomes insightful in his ew irrelvance.
ReplyDeleteNever did like Portillo; a nasty little creep, always had the courage of somebody else's convictions - so long as they had coat-tails he could ride.
ReplyDeleteBut. On this he could be right.
Outside the febrile metropolitan 'let's look good' centre there is another Conservative Party. Sure, they want the party back in power, but are not willing to be dismissed as election fodder, as guaranteed votes no matter what. They refuse to be taken for granted.
I'll repeat what I've said before, trad tories are already considering transferring there votes to UKIP.
Some have gone further than just considering, they're damn certain they will. They know that UKIP can never win - but it might ensure that Dave doesn't either.
How many marginals was it where the UKIP vote was greater than NuLab's majority last time round? 20? 30? Expect more of the same - 'cos we don't think much of Dave and his NuCon ideas - or like him much, either.
I assumed I had mis-read the paragraph when I read it on Sunday, or had become over-tired after a Caribbean style lunch in the baking weather.
ReplyDeleteNever trusted the man, and always assumed he had tissues.
"he seems to wish the Conservative Party ill at the very time it is carrying forward much of the agenda he himself was promulgating"
ReplyDeleteI take it this is the "be nice" aganda he was pushing in his latter days not the extreme Thatcherite agenda he pushed before his electorate suggested otherwise.
Portillo should get together with Alan Duncan.......they were made for each other
ReplyDeletePortillo said on This Week last night that "The Union" was over good news as far as I am concerned but I wonder who he was speaking on behlaf of or to or was it just another Portillo Pout?
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