David Davis Win

I have waited a day to post anything about this here, partly because I was caught up with other things much of yesterday, but also because I went to an event in the evening where David Cameron’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, Desmond Swayne MP, was the guest speaker.

Meanwhile, I have written about the result itself, and what it might mean for the future, on my own ‘blog HERE.

After Desmond Swayne’s (actually very good) fifteen-minute speech at a dinner at Gillingham Golf Club, which also had a local reporter present, I asked him a question about the Conservative Party’s thoughts on where we go after the resounding success at Haltemprice and Howden. His response showed clearly how the party is very strongly in tune with this whole issue and for what David Davis was campaigning.

David Cameron himself has seemed a little reserved when asked about this whole resignation and by-election business, and the more experienced of us who have dealt with the media will have understood that this was done for very good reasons. However it has (among other Westminster Village originating reports) given scope for opponents to imply that there are major splits within the party.

In reality, although inevitably there will be differing opinions and feelings, as one would expect within a party with almost certainly the “broadest church” membership of any (and all of this is healthy), in reality it became beyond doubt that the two Davids are in accord on policy, and the party is behind them and the civil liberties issue. Swayne’s choice of words, delivery, and his body language all showed that very strongly, from one of the very people in the country who really knows, from the top of the Conservative Party.

What he said is encouraging for those who might think that Cameron and his team are just a cloning of the Blair formula. They most certainly are not! Yes, they’ll have to start from whatever situation the country is in at the time they come to government, just as Mrs Thatcher did nearly thirty years ago in 1979.

History is repeating itself to an extent, and the huge damage that has been done to our nation in the economic, freedoms and crime and justice arenas in particular, will take time to repair, just as they did under Mrs Thatcher.

The conclusion one must draw from David Davis’s result, Cameron’s speech last Monday, what I heard yesterday eveing, and all the other indicators, is that the Conservatives will be next government and will be able to mend our poor, broken nation. By applying Occam’s razor, we find that they are the only party capable of doing so. A few of the other parties might have plans to deal with one or two major issues, but none of them is credible in terms of getting Britain back on its feet and functioning how it should and could.

Fortunately, none of those others stands any realistic chance of winning the next General Election, and the chances of a hung parliament are now rapidly receding, so there will need to be no diluting of the required efforts that a coalition with (say) the LibDems would undoubtedly result in being inflicted upon us.

David Davis’s by-election win will go into the history books, of that I have no doubt. It will mark the moment when the country turned sharply toward preserving freedoms, after a long period of this topic being below most people’s radar.

This is the point at which the people (thousands of whom have written comments on the subject) clearly said “No!” to Labour’s erosion of our liberties, publicly, electorally and in discussions in the home, pub and workplace. The rot stops here!