Tories Attacking Willy Wonka

Fire of Liberty

Well it seems that David Cameron, leader of the UK's Conservative Party, has decided to attack candy manufactures because they offer candy at lower prices while failing to promote healthy products. It's all well and good to advocate healthy lifestyles and products if you want to but for goodness gracious don't attack a candy company because they make fattening candy. I don't know if Cameron realizes this but he should know that conservatives of all stripes believe in self-restraint or the tempering of all things that we partake in and if your not old enough to discern what's good for you then you should have parents responsible enough to say "no," every once in a while. While the Tories are clinging heavily to various polls to find out what issues are hot with the folks who they want to pick off from Labour and the Liberal Democrats, they are also selling out the base of the Conservative party and will find themselves lost in the wilderness for many more years to come. When your party gets devoid of some concrete ideas or even a guiding philosophy you'll continue to reach for straws to get the votes. The Tories need to remember that Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair didn't win their long tenures as PM because they put their fingers in the wind and ran on what was polling good but because they offered ideas and a direction for the UK to follow. Cameron needs to return to tackling the problems of crime, education, immigration, housing, and a number of other problems that the Labourites have failed to address for some 10 years and shy away from the media driven, please everyone campaign that pleases the likes of health crusaders like Jamie Oliver (The Naked Chef). The UK Conservative party needs some life breathed into it and not the re-tread of Labour's tired ideas.