No its a modern day Roman Empire and when it collapses it will no doubt auger in a new Dark Ages for Europe. So best we are as secure from it as possible,

I do think Goodman's assessment is being rather kind on Dave and his Ministers many of whom will face their critics at some point. His avoidance of the disgraceful abuse that Cameron and his coterie have dished out to members and non-members alike has brought the return of the 'Nasty Party' charge and in places one would never previously have thought possible. Polls do not measure the strength of contempt and disdain held in certain quarters. Cameron is political marmite like Brown and Blair before him. There is little 'in between' with Cameron. Anyway the so called succesful Ministers aren't exactly what is being presented either.

Michael Gove takes the credit for academies expansion and will be a stick to beat every Tory MP in Grammar School Counties such as Kent and Lincolnshire given his equivocation and failure to allow Grammar School Expansion;

Iain Duncan Smith for getting claimants off benefit and into work until Universal credit collapses under the weight of over ambition;

Theresa May for ridding Britain of Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza whilst perpertrating the 3rd worst net immigration figures in 110 years even before the arrival of Romas and Bulgars. May is an abject failure. Seriously the greatest confidence trick of this government is the misrepresentation of its performance on immigration!

Chris Grayling for imposing uniform conditions and TV restrictions on prisoners whilst abjectly failing to do anything about our increasingly impotent sentencing regime, failed tagging system and overcrowded prisons. Grayling is a peripheral tinkerer who understands little about Criminal Justice.

Jeremy Hunt for fixing a new GPs’ contract designed to reduce pressure on A & E departments I'll leave Labour to dissect Hunt's performance .

As for the polling stuff its all fluff and nonsense even after you remove the Conhome voodoo poll. We've got to the point in the government where everything is pretty much settled. Cameron has not done enough and done considerable damage in certain quarters, sufficient to ensure that UKIP now have their foot firmly positioned in the doorway, Cameron's party is still divided dysfunctional and broken and he has contributed significantly to emphasising how badly the brand is trashed and as a result an unpopular Labour Party will be returned to power.

Indeed telling half the nation that they are 'Little Englanders' (32,000,000 UK inhabitants told the 2011 Census that they considered themselves as "English Only") does have a certain 'balance' to it but I'm not sure that is what you or Ellwood meant. Perhaps it was not as considered as you first thought.

It is worth noting that in the 2011 Census over 32,000,000 UK inhabitants indicated that they do not consider themselves to be British at all and in fact consider themselves to be 'English Only'. Perhaps Mr Ellwood would like to tell us whether he considers the majority of the UK population to be "Little Englanders" ? Does he also consider SNP supporters to be "Little Scotlanders" and Plaid supporters as "Little Welshman"? Would localists in Bournemouth be 'little Bouremouthians' per chance? Mr Ellwood's view on this would be most welcome.

Sadly the Census did not ask UK Inhabitants how they felt about being described as 'Europeans'. I'm sure the response would have been extremely revealing! Of course given the insular nature of the EU's outlook and its ever closer union obsession one has to wonder whether Mr Ellwood also considers his pals in Brussels as 'Little Europeans'?

Well the 2011 census found that over 32,000,000 UK inhabitants consider themselves as 'English Only' and given the official overall population is 63 million does that mean that the majority are 'Little Englanders'?

Indeed, last night, we did establish, eventually, that over 32,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom (that's a majority of the official UK population) consider themselves English only.

Funny though how Ellwood doesn't refer to the Scots who wish to leave the Union as 'Little Scotlanders' or the EU who practice protectionist activities as 'Little Europeans'. There does seem to be a lack of consistency in his approach

If it is not intended to insult why bother to include it? After all it is clearly a derogatory term? Clearly Ellwood's intention was to insult and presumably gain Brownie points with a certain profile of Tory leadership/member/ supporter.

Ellwood has succeeded and can now join the list of Tory 'Heroes' who are held in reverence by the likes of such faction of Tory support and join the likes of Cameron, Barker, Warsi, Clarke, Soubry and Feldman. Long may these masters and mistresses of people skills dominate the Tory Party.

As for the reaction well it was good of Ellwood to give us such sport. When a party brand is trashed as badly as the Tory Party's is and when it has nicknames floating around it such as 'Nasty Party' such thoughtless outbursts are just asking for it....

That you consider them purely as 'insults' and a reflection of my character (i.e. Not the Tories fault) demonstrates the total lack of awareness and lack of political astuteness at the heart of Tory problems.

Think of it this way I have insulted an arrogant condescending politically inept MP and a sycophantic and rather irritating former party apparatchik. Ellwood on the other hand has insulted 32 million UK inhabitants who consider themselves as 'English only' (2011 census). See the difference?

Still nothing to say about your party's complete and utter failure on immigration?

Well its not something that's defensible really I suppose. With the EU Referendum legislation going down the drain as well Tory credibility must be getting close to an all time low.

1) I'm not asking for anyone to vote for me

2) I'm not an MP, I'm just a pleb, if a somewhat astute one.

3) I can do what I like (within reason) especially in response to abuse and some past his sell-by date former Tory apparatchik ain't going to tell me otherwise. The Tory party has treaty a large portion of their own membership and the electorate with contempt. The deserve it back with a great deal of interest until such time as it is clear that they have discovered a wee bit of humility.

One of the most noticeable characteristics of the Parliamentary Conservative Party, aside from its almost complete lack of social skills, is its utter ineptness when it comes to any sort of political skill or strategy. The Tory party is totally incompetent and inadequate when it comes to politics. It is hopeless! Thats why Labour have been wiping the floor with you for most of the last two decades!

Now do you want to deal with the substance of the post or is that beyond the wit of a Tory?

Congratulations to Tobias Ellwood who abusive condescending arrogant elitist language proves the Nasty Party is alive and kicking.

As for Immigration perhaps he might explain why his party has allowed the 3rd highest three year figure for net migration into this country that has occurred in the last 110 years. He might explain how it is that in letting those 643,000 immigrants in between 2010 and 2012 (with Immigration rising again even before any Roma and Bulgar influx), his government is any different in its actions to the 649,000 immigrants Tony Blair's Government let in at the height of the Polish influx between 2004-2006 (the 2nd highest three year figure in 110 years)

Given the highest ever three year period of net migration is 2009-2011 (665k) straddling the end of the Brown era and the beginning of the Coalition and given the highest one year figure for migration (252k) occurred in 2010 its clear that every pretense by the Tories to be controlling immigration at all is a complete and utter lie. In fact they are as disgraceful in their dereliction of duty in controlling our borders as Labour!

The main difference seems to be that whilst Labour tried to bury and cover up bad immigration news ,Tory Twerps like Ellwood seem blissfully unaware that his own Government is following exactly the same sort of open border immigration policy as their predecessors.

There is only one thing worse than the cynical malevolence of Labour and that is the imbecilic incompetence of these Tory Twerps who are as much a danger to the future cohesion and prosperity of our nation as that most ridiculous of comedic characters Frank Spencer was to himself.
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