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I wonder if the judgement shown by Tory leader David Cameron recently will result in the fate that befell Ian Duncan Smith before the last general election. Cameron's decisions on europe, his close advisors etc may see the Tory grandees act against him as swiftly as they did against IDS.
The sticking with George Osborne and bringing in Ken Clarke to bolster his inept shadow chancellor looks to be a decision borne out of what is best for him rather than his shadow cabinet and holding on to his communications chief Andy Coulson might, or might not, come back to bite him as soon as next week.
Cameron's decision to change his party's european allies may bring shame to the Tories, and maybe our country. This new grouping they are in is led by Michal Kaminski who has been described by a board member of Poland's Campaign Against Homophobia as a symbol of homophobia in Poland. As an MEP he has consistently voted against resolutions that fight homophobia in Europe and he used to belong to a neo-fascist group.
The FT reckons the decision to break from the EPP group in the Euro parliament was always daft and 'a bit like the right wing of the US Republican Party splitting off and forming a minority group in Congress'.
This week the Tories relinquished the leadership of their new faction, the European Conservatives and Reformists [ECR] group, to Kaminski, this was after Edward McMillan-Scott, a Tory MEP, refused to respect a deal in which Kaminski had been promised one of the parliament's vice-presidency posts. McMillan-Scott, who instead secured the vice-presidency for himself, has now effectively been kicked out of the ECR, and the Tories are in disarray.
Cameron cant say he wasn't warned and the knives may be sharpened over the summer.