will David Cameron ever be PM of the UK?

[afleitch]

Other than a fatality, David Cameron will be the next PM of the UK.

Whether this will be after a short minority Brown government or by winning an outright majority at the next election is debatable. However 2008 will define whether the next election will be competative or whether a Conservative victory becomes an inevatability re Labour in 1995/1996.

[afleitch]

Hopefully not. The Tories need to get rid of this joke.

Who would you favor as Tory leader?

John Redwood! 

Basically anyone but Cameron. He rubs me the wrong way.

Redwood? We can kiss the next 3 elections at least goodbye. Cameron is a recent historic first; a Tory leader that is actually liked

[afleitch]

Hopefully not. The Tories need to get rid of this joke.

Who would you favor as Tory leader?

John Redwood! 

Basically anyone but Cameron. He rubs me the wrong way.

Redwood? We can kiss the next 3 elections at least goodbye. Cameron is a recent historic first; a Tory leader that is actually liked

What about Macmillan?

Well I did say 'recent' history. I think he is our Macmillan, we have a 'decontaminated' leader and party and the two hand in hand put us in the strongest position for a long time.

[afleitch]

David Cameron is the best thing to happen to the Tories since the Winter of Discontent

I would actually say that the Labour Party conference of 1980 was a much better thing for the Tories than a wave of public sector strikes.

True, but without those strikes, Thatcher might not have been elected in the first place

Someone on the forum (maybe you?) once said that if Callaghan had held the election earlier (in late '78) he probably would have been re-elected. The strikes were what turned the tide.

Of course Mr Callaghan had higher personal approval ratings than Mrs Thatcher going into an election IIRC. There was a desire for stability that Heath, Wilson and Callaghan failed to provide.

[afleitch]

I have heard about Cameron. How conservative is he, anyway? I know the tories are nativists, but beyond that, I don't know what they run on that the Labour hasn't triangulated.

In a few years, this is what the UK will look like:

FR      R         CR      C         CL            L            FL
BNP   UKIP   Lab   Con   LibDems   I dunno   RESPECT

Abbreviations:
F=Far
C=Center
R=Right
C=Center
L=Left

How will Labour by center right? Brown is a step to the left.   

Not if Brown has anything to do with it