We can’t have unelected bureaucrats running UK, say Tories. Like Lynton Crosby?
How unfortunate for the Conservative Party that “most influential Tory outside the Cabinet” Tim Montgomerie tweeted one minister’s disgust at the perception that unelected foreigner Lynton Crosby is running the party – and thus the government – on the same day the Tories were trying to get people riled up against the unelected foreigners they say are ruining human rights legislation.
Tom Pride, over at Pride’s Purge, had the juice: “Cameron is so desperate to win the next election he hired an Australian called Lynton Crosby to tell him how to do it.
“But now cabinet ministers are complaining that the unelected Australian is running the country instead of Cameron.
“Top Tory Tim Montgomerie – who has been described as one of the ‘most influential Tories outside the cabinet’ – tweeted that a government minister texted him privately to complain that Crosby has replaced Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party:
“Which means Crosby is also running the country.”
He topped it off by pointing out: “Mind you, another unelected Australian has been running the UK for years, so not much change there then.”
But Tom uncharacteristically missed the icing on this particular cake.
No, it isn’t the House of Lords (although that’s a perfectly good example of why the Tories are wrong, right there).
Today (Friday) is the day the Tories chose to launch their campaign to replace the Human Rights Act with a new ‘Bill of Rights’, dictated by them, which in fact takes rights away from you, rather than bestowing them.
Conservatives have described their campaign to remove power from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in a characteristic way, as follows (this is from today’s Express): “Tory MPs … say voters are fed up with unelected foreign judges siding with illegal migrants, terror suspects and criminals.”
Whoever he is, Mr Montgomerie’s minister is right to complain about unelected Lynton Crosby.
At the start of a campaign against unelected foreigners, his presence shows up the Conservatives as a gaggle of hypocrites.
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23rd October 2013 – 12.31pm PMQs –
“Lynton Crosby’s responsibility is to destroy the Labour party.” Cameron thunders.
Lynton Crosby, who has declared that his role is to destroy the Labour Party, rather than promote the Conservatives, based on any notion of merit, is all about such a targeted “divide and rule” strategy. This is a right wing tactic of cultivating and manipulating apostasy amongst support for the opposition. It’s a very evident ploy in the media, too, with articles about Labour screaming headlines that don’t match content, and the Sun and Telegraph blatantly lying about Labour’s policy intentions regularly. Propaganda isn’t obvious, and that’s how it works. We need to be mindful of this.