David Cameron paid a huge price in the recent local elections when he reportedly said UKIP was full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”.
UKIP got 26 per cent of the vote. Now Tory grandee, Lord Tebbit, has warned that Cameron is still out of touch with ordinary people.
He believes the PM and his inner circle has, messed things up “by pursuing divisive policies, such as gay marriage.”
The 82-year-old peer asked voters to imagine what might happen . . . “when we have a Queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child. Is that child heir to the throne?”
His comments, needless to say, provoked a storm on Twitter. But the fact is that gay marriage plans were never in the Tories’ election manifesto.
There are even more wishy-washy ideas from Cameron in the wake of the horrific killing of the soldier at Woolwich.
He’s setting up a ‘task force’ of Cabinet ministers to deal with hate-filled radical clerics, like Anjem Choudary, the man who was allowed to air his opinions on BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
Choudary knew Michael Adebolajo, one of the two men arrested at Woolwich.
Cameron said after the killing: “We will never give in to terror”. But we need more than words. We need actions if he wants any chance of winning the 2015 election.
He needs to renegotiate the EU treaty; at the very least get us out of the Human Rights section of the treaty.
We need to have the power to kick these radical clerics out of the country.
Wasn’t it joyful to see the Speaker’s wife, Sally Bercow, found guilty of libelling Lord McAlpine? She lost her High Court battle over a tweet that outrageously suggested he was a child sex offender. She now faces legal costs totalling more than £100,000.
For once in her life she has suddenly gone very quiet. What a relief for us all.
I was shocked to hear how a nurse at Kingston Hospital, forcibly shaved off 86-year-old Ken Perkin’s moustache as he was being put to bed after a fall.
The former Grenadier Guardsman had had the moustache for nearly 70 years and his son, Ian, says the incident amounted to assault.
When Ian protested, nurses allegedly told his father he was ‘lucky’ to even be treated after the complaint. It’s even stranger when you hear that nurses won’t even cut a patient’s toenails these days for fear of starting infection.