The Real High Ground of Politics

In the Sunday Telegraph today, Janet Daley asks: Who are the ordinary voters for whom the Conservative Party feels a passionate concern? And how will it convince those people that it really speaks for them?" For my priorities, may I refer respective policy strategists to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

But before you start compiling a list of compliant slogans to secure my allegiance I have a over-arching concern.  I am an ordinary voter and any party may only begin to convince me that it really speaks for what I care about when I see signs that being British is important and that honesty, decency and regard for others is axiomatic in the way both the Government and the people behave.  Please note that none of the forgoing requires legislation or codes of conduct, either for perception or reality.  Instead we need moral leadership, consistency and example and, above all, the courage to seize the initiative from those who would seek to rubbish everything we stand for.