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Monday, December 04, 2006

What is ConservativeHome Doing?

ConservativeHome claims to be, friendly but critical to David Cameron. However the most recent ConservativeHome survey posed the question.

"OTHER than the Conservative Party, which of the following political parties in Britain is CLOSEST to your views?"

Now I don't know what Tim Montgomerie (who is effectively Mr ConservativeHome) thought he was going to achieve with this question. But whatever it was couldn't have failed to realise that this will inevitably be picked up in the media and be ran as a negative story.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the results had UKIP at the top with 43% and none second on 31%. Those of us who ticked none (me included) were very probably reluctant to contribute to a story that will damage the repositioning of Conservatives as a party naturally in the centre.

The media will need no encouragement to run "Cameron split from Party" and our opponents will doubtless repeat this whenever they want to try and say that we haven't really changed.

I hope Tim isn't sending himself into opposition to the leadership but the evidence of this isn't good.

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