Dear Vote

To retire or not to retire from politics, that is a matter for Michael Portillo himself. His rapid fire change of policies, undoubtedly led to his setback/downfall, and, prudence to hold a spell of complete silence on learning of the result of the two winners in line for the leader of the Party, should have, with foresight, been his name of the game.
The Conservative Party did not lose the 1997 general election because it was not "touchey-feeley" enough, so Steven Norris can now therefore wing his way across the divide like a butterfly, and of the Harrods brown paper envelope stuffed with currency not in Euros' syndrome, but it lost the election because it was "time for a change" - the Tory kind - that New Labour had on offer, together with Kenneth Clarke and the two other "big beasts" joining forces with New Labour to surrender England to Germany, thus causing much needless bickering in the Conservative ranks, whilst the majority of the people (not persons) in England still see no truck with, EMU the Euro.
The gall of Kenneth Clarke in standing for the Hague replacement leadership Party elections, espousing, in contradiction to what he now stands for simply to gain members' support, is surely unforgivable.
I was pleased to hear what John Redwood had to say on the cause of the 1997 election defeat and his support for Iain Duncan-Smith to become the new leader of the Party, as seen on the - pain-in-the-neck - Paxman show, suffering him carping on about capital punishment in obstruction to what Redwood had to say - not commensurate to good TV viewing.
The Times newspaper support for the New Labour "second term" saw the worst Race riots in the centre of England that the nation has ever seen, that, with the collapse of the Northern Ireland peace talks, showed how far adrift from sound forethoughts the leader writers of - The Times - have become. They now write with tongue-in-cheek on who they think should lead the Conservatives to get back into power.
Still, its packets of Night Scented Stocks seeds and Cornflowers, now show up as a beautiful display in the garden, its promotions, and its worthy columnists, even though some of them are prone to fault-double, sorry, "Double-Fault" is a good read for one to remain connected.
I watched "Unspun: Amanda Platell's Secret Diary" on Channel 4, and immediately thought, "here we go" is another "Woman Tom" bent on trying to bring the human race to the lowest form of the animal kingdom to self reproduce, but this was far from the case. I found Amanda Platell to be an intelligent wholesome lady, genuinely passionate in what she was doing, who carried all the finest attributes of womanhood.
Perhaps that inconsequential Anthony Howard observation he noted in her diary was to him only, and not to the rest of the people (not persons) of the world.
There was a dearth of Portillos', Clarkes' and other important MPs seen on TV in support of Mr and Mrs William Hague, whose campaign to form the government showed brilliance far in excess of the one run by New Labour, which speaks loud and clear to me of what Platell was conveying, and therefore she should show no remorse for her unfulfilled first class general election campaign efforts.
England will miss William Hague, and repent in upheaval over the next few years for its ungratefulness shown to him, and its lack of foresight in not affording him the constitutional way forward to put into practice his hard won achievements.
Meanwhile we look to the MP best able of the two, who I'll not reveal here, to follow on in the footsteps of William Hague.
Ian King

Charles Kennedy
Leader of the
Liberal Democrats Party
4 Cowley Street, London.

Dear Mr Kennedy

I watched you on TV, in particular, talking about allowing tactical voting by your Party in support for New Labour to keep out the Tory Party.
I also watched you advocate that, in effect, you are now the main "opposition" party.
Doubtless, you will want one day to become prime minister, but first, you will need to become the "real" opposition party, which can be achieved without bluff. Here's how.
The way ahead, is for your supporters to no longer see the need in weakness to back another party for whatever purpose, for now that New Labour has become a de facto Tory Party, you can now quite easily fight for right for yourselves.
I therefore suggest that to achieve your ambition, you look no further that the food for thought voicing as expressed following.
"As New Labour has now in effect become 'thatcherism incorporate,' and as the Tory wing of it, progressively returns to the Conservatives, with the residue of 'thatcherism incorporate' voters joining forces with the Lib Dems, leading to 'progressive conservatives' on the one hand, and 'socialist liberal democrats' on the other hand, will this then cause New Labour, as it is now called, to implode and disappear as a political party altogether? Ian King"

In effect, England will then have a two main-party form of democracy.

Think about it.

Yours sincerely
Ian King
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