Blairite openly endorses Cameron

The Blairite commentator John Rentoul has now openly said that he would rather David Cameron remained in office after the next election than that Ed Miliband took his place.

 

The details are here http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2014/01/17/blairite-for-cameron/ and I urge you to read them.

 

The key passage is this :'So I had to say what I think, which is that it would be better for the country if David Cameron were to continue as Prime Minister next year.'

 

He goes on to qualify this (and to make some typically unconventional remarks about the much-derided Ed Balls, whom it is now fashionable to dismiss).

 

But he knows what he is doing when he says this, and he knows which bit is going to be quoted. Mr Rentoul, biographer of th Blair creature and longstanding Blair enthusiast, is now an open Cameroon.

 

Many such people, in politics and the media,  have been secret supporters of the Cameron project since Gordon Brown became Premier. But this explicit declaration is something new.

 

I have argued for many years that the Tory party has been captured by Blairism, because its only purpose now is to obtain office, and-having no moral, philosophical, economic or other critique of New Labour - it seeks to do so by copying the machine which repeatedly thrashed the Tories at elections from 1997 onwards.

 

Very interesting times are coming. once the results of the Euro-elections are known in May. Expect a lot of realigning. But the pretence that the Conservative Party is a conservative, patriotic formation surely cannot be maintained much longer.