Britannist

Simon Heffer, the strongly eurosceptic columnist, writes in today’s Telegraph of David Cameron, the pro-EU and anti-UKIP Conservative leader:

“Mr. Brown (the Chancellor) takes the view that it is good to win general elections. To do so, he gives millions of people reasons to vote for him. For a start, he gives the best part of three quarters of a million of them new jobs on the public payroll. He taxes heavily people who don't vote for him, so that he can shower money on those who do. This may be verging on the corrupt, but it is perfectly legal and, in the murky world of politics, perfectly sensible too.

Dave (Cameron), we are told, also thinks it is good to win general elections. He has a different and courageously novel way of trying to do so. He gives millions of people who might normally be keen to vote for him increasingly good reasons not to do so.”

* Mr. Simon Heffer backed UKIP leader Mr. Nigel Farage MEP at last year's Bromley-Chislehurst parliamentary By-Election.

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