David Cameron has caused a crisis in conservatism

David Cameron’s letter to party members added insult to injury after a week of headlines about ‘Loongate’ and the Tory leadership’s decision to bulldoze through the Same Sex Marriage Bill with the help of Labour. He suggested that ‘you change things not be criticising from your armchair but by getting out and doing’. Who does he think is knocking on doors week after week, taking the flak for his unpopular lurch from ill-conceived policy to ill-conceived policy?

Many of us have been involved in the fight for conservatism all our lives. But under Cameron’s watch we are seeing a crisis in conservatism and polling results which would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Iain Martin says today that it ‘feels like the Right has split irrevocably’. There is a deep split, but it is in the Conservative party, not the Right. In one foul swoop, Cultural Marxists, who have been working behind the scenes for decades in Britain, have broken both marriage and the Conservative party, once the greatest of British institutions.