The Limits of Cameronism

It stops at the Tweed. Dave was in Glasgow and East Renfreshire yesterday on the Scottish leg of his 36-Hour-Dash-To-Save-the-United-Kingdom but, while symbolically useful, it won’t have done him or his party that much good north of the border. Today’s Scotsman poll puts the Tories on 17% in Scotland.

More remarkably, the Scotsman finds that Brown has a +4 approval rating in Scotland while Cameron endures a -2 rating. I can’t help but feel that many of my compatriots are employing a double standard here. As Cameron put it:

“Of course it is always frustrating when you are not always getting through.”

“I believe in the UK and I will always fight for a Conservative recovery in Scotland. I think there are many, many people who share Conservative values: the importance of the family, importance of enterprise, passionate about Scotland and the UK, who are instinctively Conservatives.”