Sun backs Dave
The Sun newspaper has decided to back the Conservatives at the next election. They give their reasons in full here, the key section reads as follows:
"At the 2005 election, we and our readers believed Labour had many failings but gave them one last chance over a lacklustre Tory party.
They have had that chance and failed.
That is a fact Gordon Brown cannot escape, for all his rhetoric yesterday - his rewriting of history, his absurd caricature of the "heartless" Tories, his tired promises to solve problems he has had 12 years to solve.
Britain needs a brave and wise Government to restore our self-respect, our natural entrepreneurship and the will of every family to improve its lot through its own efforts, without depending on handouts.
We need a Government that will cut the red tape strangling businesses, that will make affordable tax cuts to stimulate growth, that will reform wasteful public services.
We need a Government with a genuine will to win the war in Afghanistan and the commitment to give our forces whatever they need to do it.
This will not be a Government that merely talks the talk, as Labour has. It will ACT.
We hope, and pray, that the next Government will have the guts and the determination to do these things. And we believe David Cameron should lead it."
"At the 2005 election, we and our readers believed Labour had many failings but gave them one last chance over a lacklustre Tory party.
They have had that chance and failed.
That is a fact Gordon Brown cannot escape, for all his rhetoric yesterday - his rewriting of history, his absurd caricature of the "heartless" Tories, his tired promises to solve problems he has had 12 years to solve.
Britain needs a brave and wise Government to restore our self-respect, our natural entrepreneurship and the will of every family to improve its lot through its own efforts, without depending on handouts.
We need a Government that will cut the red tape strangling businesses, that will make affordable tax cuts to stimulate growth, that will reform wasteful public services.
We need a Government with a genuine will to win the war in Afghanistan and the commitment to give our forces whatever they need to do it.
This will not be a Government that merely talks the talk, as Labour has. It will ACT.
We hope, and pray, that the next Government will have the guts and the determination to do these things. And we believe David Cameron should lead it."
Comments
I suspect the Sun is taking the lead from its readership rather than vice versa. The mood in the country is for change and Cameron has showed his leadership qualities. In turning the Conservative Party into a credible opposition, he has readied it for Government and shown his calibre as a future PM.
Gordon Brown's address to conference was tired and pathetic. His wife’s charms and no doubt genuinely deep affection for him, cannot undo the disasters his premiership has unleashed on the country. The people know this and do not need the Sun to tell them.
However we can believe in the power of prayer and join the Sun praying “that the Conservative leadership can put the great back into Great Britain”. To this we can add the faith that it can by voting Conservative in the next General Election.