Peter Hoskin

Cameron’s failure to communicate?

Fascinating stuff.  ConHome’s Tim Montgomerie has got his hands on a letter sent on House of Commons writing paper to all Tory MPs, by – allegedly – a group of Conservative parliamentarians.  Tim has uploaded a pdf of the entire thing but, as he says, this is the key section:

“We all know that the expenses crisis is a massive problem, but it has brought out clear evidence of what all of us had sensed and feared, namely that the party in parliament has ceased to be a team effort and is now just run and dictated to for the personal advantage of David Cameron and George Osborne. We are concerned that the parliamentary party is just being used and abused by the leader and his inner circle. They are treating the party as if it is their private property.

Action is being taken to respond to the expenses scandal but its main purpose actually seems to be to build up a position for themselves of permanent power.

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