Britannist

David Cameron has taken yet another 'sideswipe' at UKIP, the Telegraph reports, adding that he attended the Conservative Winter Ball (a fundraising event in Battersea Park, London) not wearing a tie - the first male Conservative leader to turn up at a party Ball without one.

Here's an extract of what the Daily Telegraph said on 8.2.2007:

But conversely, David Cameron also had strong words for those in the party who want to respond to the threat from the UK Independence Party by taking a more stridently eurosceptic line.

"Some say we'd win Sittingbourne in Kent if we hadn't lost 1,000 votes to Ukip," David Cameron said. "Well I say, if only Labour hadn't got 17,000 votes."

This could be interpreted as a sideswipe at Gordon Henderson, the man who has been selected to fight the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency for the Tories at the next election: he is the only Conservative prospective candidate so far to have signed up to the Freedom Association's Better Off Out campaign to withdraw from the European Union.

Many of the party's recently-selected candidates were also in attendance, with David Bull (Brighton Pavilion) compering the evening and Priti Patel (Witham) making the financial appeal.

Britannist adds: Priti Patel was a member of the Referendum Party (the anti-euro party set up by the Late Sir James Goldsmith). Witham in Essex (a new seat created by the Boundary Commission is considered a ‘safe’ Conservative seat).

There’s more on this at:

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politic...ughaminute.htm


Anti-EU campaigner Michael McGough wrote on the Daily Telegraph internet readers' message page in response to the above article (at 3.57 pm on 8.2.2007) "His (Cameron's) opponents in UKIP might try suggesting he is in league with both socialists and liberal democrats."

Britannist

There's more about the appearance at Battersea Park of anti-UKIP and pro-EU David Cameron at his party's trendy Winter Ball now known as the Black and White ball:

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

The following comments were left on the Daily Mail website yesterday (8.2.2007) after the article on the link above:

Pen in Durham said (rightly) that "Suits without ties look as scruffy as some of the so called celebrities with a suit jacket no tie and scruffy jeans on tv, but some of those on tv are paid for being comedians not leaders of the opposition."

Toby in Malaga (Spain) said of David Cameron "He moves further and further away, both from the image he should be presenting and from what he should be doing; can´t anyone in the Conservative Party turn him around or elect a leader who actually represents what the Party is about, before Britain finds itself foist with another New Labour government at the next election, simply because the alternative looks even worse?"

Mikeuk

Why doesnt the nasty little spiv show some concern for social justice by allowing Battersea's down-and-outs free entry to his pathetic ball?

I don't suppose they wear ties either and their BO ought to help mask the stench of cocaine.

I see it cost £275 to attend this disgusting display of degenerate yuppie indulgence.

Very inclusive.

Britannist

In answer to your question Mike about the cost of attending the Conservative Ball at Battersea, the Telegraph article on the event says "...a tieless David Cameron was in very good spirits as he spoke to the 1,200 people attending the £300-a-ticket event, which raised over £600,000 for party coffers."

David Cameron in good spirits the quote above says.

I've just been in the elections section of this forum and see that the Conservative vote was DOWN in yesterday's local By-Election held at Croydon. Labour won the seat on an INCREASED vote.

So it was Labour, and not the Conservatives who were in good spirits at Croydon yesterday evening.

At this point in time - with Blair on the 'fag-end' of his disastrous decade in Downing Street and the voters sick of the site of him - the main opposition party should be doing much better in both local and national By-Elections and in opinion polls.

Britannist

Just to avoid confusion among readers. Mike asked me how much tickets had cost to the Conservative Ball. While I was finding the answer he obviously obtained the figure for himself and took out his original question on the ticket price from his last posting to this thread.

I posted my reply without being aware that Mike had found out the approximate cost of the ticket price to the event.

Mikeuk

Wonder why there are 2 quoted prices Britannist? Maybe the £25 difference is the bit that Cameron rakes off for himself, eh?

Comments on the Mail website:

g hall

boy dave strikes again

Britannist

Regarding the comments of Pen from Durham (as quoted in Mike's last posting to this thread and in mine at 5.46 am today to this thread) - it is a mistake of David Cameron not to wear a tie. It won't be winning him many friends amont tie manufacturers either.

I can remember in the past the then Speaker of the Commons telling someone on the Labour benches to get out and not come back into the Chamber until he was wearing a suit AND tie. The guilty one may have been Corbyn.

Last night I watched David Dimbleby's Question Time. I noticed that none of the Labour and Conservative supporters on the panel praised their respective party leaders. (Mind you, the 'Conservative' on was extreme europhile Kenneth Clarke. The only thing he's likely to praise is the EU.)

When Michael Foot and Lady Thatcher were opposition leaders they had a great deal of enthusiastic support and praise from the rank and file of their parties.

Mikeuk

Sadly the Mail has seen fit not to put up the post I sent them.

I suggested that "Dave" would look really cute with his bow tie on his head like the Easter Bunny. :twisted: