Is David Cameron getting too big for his boots? The new big idea is reportedly that he is appealing to other political parties, like the Liberal Democrats, the Nationalists, and anyone else who will listen, to form a "progressive consensus" with the Tories to fight Labour.
The idea is too barmy for words.
I was glad to see that the former Liberal Democrat leader (and the best one, incidentally, that they have ever had), Charles Kennedy kicked it into touch the moment he heard about it.
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He pointed out that the Lib Dems supported the new European Union Treaty, while the Conservatives were bitterly against it. How could consensus ever be achieved on such a major issue as that?
He might also have added that from the start the Lib Dems opposed the Iraqi war, yet the Tories were behind Blair on it.
What is more it is sheer arrogance on the part of our leading politicians to try to reduce even further the already meagre choice the voter now has at general elections.
It is becoming clearer all the time, that the Conservatives and Labour are becoming closer in ideology as each day passes. Heaven help us that the day should ever arise that they morph into a single horrendous entity.
What the Tories are reportedly suggesting is the next worst scenario.
That is the trouble with political parties: They are always so eager to play fast and loose with the voter - and sometimes, unfortunately, they win.
Take all-women shortlists, or all-black shortlists. This is no more than a deceitful attempt to pick a candidate not on the basis of his/her abilities to do the job, but on the grounds of sex or race - which some of us thought was illegal.
It is time for the voters to hit back and let our political masters know what we think of them. Their conduct does not put you in a mood for goodwill towards all men at Christmas.
l David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, is fiercely denying (well, he would, wouldn't he?) that he has had a falling out with the Prime Minister.
Well, I know where I would put my money in the event of a confrontation: On Mr Brown with his so-called great clunking fist, rather than the minnow Miliband.
I do hope, however, that they do not roll up their sleeves until the season of goodwill is behind us.
In any event, Mr Brown has more weighty worries on his mind than that, namely that large sections of his own Labour Party are threatening to confront him with a leadership challenge in May if the local election results are bad. Some of them have even likened him to Anthony Eden and are not impressed with his premiership so far.
So let us give a pantomime warning to the Prime Minister: "They are behind you Mr B - oh yes they are!"
He must be yearning for a game of Happy Families over Christmas - but that seems a trifle unlikely, to put it mildly.
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