Tories Taking a Stand

Fire of Liberty

With the UK elections only a few weeks away,the Tories seem to have got a major boost in the most recent poll in The Sunday Times. While other polls like the Tory friendly, Sunday Telegraph shows Labour with a ten point lead over the Tories and The Sunday Mail's showing a three point lead for Labour, the Times shows the Tories gaining. According to the poll, the Tories have pared down the lead of Labour to one point. Here's what the paper had to say about the poll:

It puts Labour on 36%, down one on last week, the Tories on 35%, unchanged, and the Liberal Democrats on 23%, up two. The result, if repeated on May 5, would give Labour an overall majority of nearly 50 seats.

While this is no time for the Tory faithful to be popping the champagne corks, it does give them a bit of fresh air to the Howard team. This rise in the polls is probably due to the Tories constant pounding of Labour on crime, yobs, NHS and immigration. While Labour can hem and haw about what the Tories have failed to do in the last eight years (I don't know why, Labour has held the reigns of power for all this time not the Tories) the Labourites will still be the party that will be judge on May 5. One area that Labour has failed miserably to paste over with Blair's eloquent soliloquy is the issue of immigration. It doesn't help when you have administered over a government that has allowed well over 500,000 illegal immigrants to live on the Island nation. Just read what this article in The Sunday Times has to say about this poor performance by Blair's monolithic Labour party:

However, in the face of a political controversy over lax controls at Britain’s borders, experts involved were told not to reveal the figure. It includes not only migrants who have illegally entered Britain to work in the black market but also failed asylum seekers who should have been deported.

The estimate — equivalent to the population of Sheffield — is far higher than previous figures from campaigners such as Migration Watch UK and is likely to intensify the row over immigration.

Last week the Tories claimed immigration controls were a shambles after an illegal immigrant was convicted of murdering a policeman and plotting a terrorist attack with the poison ricin.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: “This government now admits that the number of illegal immigrants is at least 500,000 and it could be much more. But yet again it is covering up the truth from the public. This smacks of a desperate attempt to conceal its own facts.”

Following the Tip O'Neil adage, "Politics is Local," the Tory Party has found a issue that affects a broad cross-section of the UK. In almost every district and town in England are running into a immigration policy that has gone wild. With the numbers going up for the Tories with issues on immigration, one truly realizes that the UK's people are tired of these illegal immigrants welshing off the government via the dole, clogging up NHS hospitals, taking limited housing as well as an introduction of more anti-social/criminal elements to the British society. While these illegal immigrants continue to come ashore and subsequently bring their families into the nation illegally, they destroy the chances of hard working/deserving immigrants who are abiding the laws of the UK and filling for a Visa or asylum legally.

With such a horrific record on preventing this mass immigration, Labour has actually exposed two enormous fissures in their insurmountable political stronghold. The first is that they cannot control their borders and the second is that they have demonstrated their complete lack of accountability. (when you aren't sure of the number of immigrants in an island nation, your a very poor on your accountability skills). Unlike the poor chaps in Labour who offer mere platitudes on this issue, the Tories have sensed the concern of the people on the issue of immigration and have offered an alternative to the failed policies of the Blair government. Though they might not win the ultimate prize, the Tories are on a rise that will send a shockwave of fear in the House of Labour come May 5.