Letters From A Tory may have to soon find a new name for his blog.

In a blog post yesterday he starts off by saying:

As a conservative voter approaching a General Election, I would like to think that my confidence in the Conservative Party would be fairly secure by now. What we have seen over the past few weeks, though, is a painful combination of naivety, incompetence, stupidity and inappropriateness that has dragged the party down in the polls and brought a hung parliament sharply into focus. Furthermore, the individual incidents bode extremely badly for a future Conservative government.

Oh dear. And it doesn’t get any better from there on. He lists four reasons.

The first is ‘naivety’ – not realising that the posters would be mercilessly mocked and parodied across the web.

LFAT is one of the few Tories to actually admit the depth of Tory incompetence, because he goes on to list two more reasons:

Second, incompetence. I would have thought that with your vast teams of research and media chumps that getting statistics right would not have been that difficult. Unfortunately, Chris Grayling was publicly rebuked by the head of the UK Statistics Authority Sir Michael Scholar for using non-comparable crime statistics to suggest rises in violent crime which Scholar warned were likely to damage public trust in official statistics. Yesterday the embarrassment was cranked up a couple of notches at the launch of your ’Two Nations’ report, which tried to show a rise in inequalities under the current government. It claimed – three times – that women under 18 are “three times more likely to fall pregnant in the most deprived areas compared to the least deprived areas. In the most deprived areas 54% are likely to fall pregnant before the age of 18, compared to just 19% in the least deprived areas”, when in actual fact the rate of conception was an average of 5.4% in the most deprived areas. A decimal point doesn’t take up much ink, but it still left your party’s credibility in a mess.

Third, stupidity. Marriage tax breaks, tackling the deficit, your ‘emergency budget’ within 50 days of taking office – it’s all fallen apart because you couldn’t hold your nerve. Of all the things to show the electorate a few weeks before a General Election, dithering and a lack of confidence in your own policies should not have been top of the list. Ironically, your decision to soften your line on spending cuts – which was done to placate swing voters – has made these voters very nervous about your flip-flopping and has probably done far more damage than any spending cuts rhetoric ever could. If you can’t even keep a simple promise like making tackling the deficit your number one priority, why should swing voters rush over to the blue side? For a potential PM to be so easily swayed from your direction of travel is extremely alarming.

He also criticises the sordid affair around Joanne Cash in Westminster North.

He ends by saying:

Even so, when my party membership next comes up for renewal, I suspect that my direct debit may well slip by the wayside.

Let the recriminations begin!

Read the whole post here. It’s very damning.

Meanwhile, other Tory bloggers are still getting angry over nasty Tweets.

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