The need for change

Dear Gary,

Oliver Letwin, our new Policy Chief, gave his considered opinions, in the Telegraph on Friday the 23rd December 2005. If he is in fact David Cameron's intellectual guru, we should be wise to examine what he says with some seriousness.

You are my only access, for introducing greater wisdom, where it is desperately needed. First and foremost Letwin states categorically that we should, and that we shall, accept the existing scene as it is. That scene tells us that the Tories have got it so wrong, that they have failed three elections, and Labour having had a free rein to do as they wish for eight years, have proven with absolute certainty, that they also have got it wrong.

If these facts do not scream out the need for change, then the Tories are doomed. For a professor of philosophy to be so blind, proves 100 per cent, that as an intellectual guru, he is a terrible liability. Can you not see that?. It is so obvious, I cannot believe the you do not see it! You must say to yourself, who cares!!.

Every single issue on which Letwin makes a comment and on which he claims to take seriously, all have a lowest common denominator, each and every one involves economic nonsense. If Letwin were to say, “Look chaps, before we start waffling about the poor, about redistribution of wealth, about private health care, private education, about commercial warfare and CO2 emissions, about nuclear power, about ferment of ideas, global poverty, about overstating things, about charting a new course, about backing Tony Blair, and about the humanities, we must recognise that the existing monetary system is a stinking rotten fraud and that Britain can never pull itself up by its boot straps until we correct what is wrong with our economics”

Letwin says the Tories are not looking for perfection, nor aiming to get things right, but merely to say pious prayers, for improvement. Try to narrow the gap between rich and poor, but the poor are here to stay, is what he says. No major change of taxation, (not much wrong with it). Something will need to be done about aviation. Something, but goodness knows what. He speaks of under writing nuclear power stations. Can he not see that unless the power they produce underwrites them, it would be insanity to build them. And finally Letwin admits that he cannot understand that the quality of life has anything to do with money. No wonder he is so cynical about global poverty.

Do get him and David Cameron to read this letter and get them to wake up to reality.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB

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