Guido on Howard's dream

Guido Fawkes on the loss of Tory identity:

Howard gave a speech in the City in February about his "British Dream", it was trailed as his libertarian vision. When he said "the people should be big and the state should be small.... " and to follow the British "...dream wherever it takes you." He apparently meant you had to take your ID card with you. When he said his vision "means government should let people grow and be wary of taking control away from people..." he meant so long as they had a compulsory state enforced ID card recording their biometric details on a central state register.

Apparently at a recent speech at the Policy Exchange Mr. Howard looked unwell and other Tories were looking old and weary. Interestingly enough me and my family look pretty much the same after a good old fashioned argument, though I suspect the Italian blood that courses through our veins at such times makes for a far greater spectacle of righteous enthusiasm than any Tory cross table verbalisation ever could.

Sometimes we have to stop for espresso and Panettone mid flow just to keep from fainting.

Posted by John at December 15, 2004 01:12 PM | TrackBack