Here's my advice for the next election: Don't Vote Tory

I'm being serious here, whoever you are and whatever your political leanings, unless you are a tribal Tory or someone who works for them (in which case, this piece is a waste of your time): please don't bother voting Tory when the election comes.

This Torygraph piece says it all: Clegg has refused Cameron's overtures for some sort of alliance, or prospective pact, with the election coming up. Cameron has made it clear that there is 'barely a cigarette paper' between the parties on most issues.

On a purely opportunistic basis, Cameron has his eye on the target number of seats he needs to win and he is worried that unless he makes significant inroads on the electoral map, he'll need to team up with the Limp Dems for victory over Labour.

But don't be fooled. Cameron's opportunism isn't simply based on a desperate need for seats at the next G.E. His politics is entirely compatible and in keeping with the politics of the Liberal Democrats - a party that is beyond pointless, weak, ineffectual and tame.

Cameron has, in the past, openly stated that his party is 'not a Libertarian' party. Conservatives and other rightists should be equally alarmed. For his party is neither conservative nor right in any real sense at all.

If he wins, the message will be clear - the Tories can only win, if they move leftwards and become socially democratic. A party that doesn't care about tax, the role of the state, crime and punishment, the role of the individual or even immigration.

If he loses, then his excessive shifting of the party to the left will be justly attacked as a mistake and based on a series of misnomers. The Tories were and probably are still a 'nasty' party - that doesn't mean right leaning politics is wrong. It doesn't mean Hague had it wrong. It doesn't mean libertarianism is wrong, or unpopular. The Tories can be nasty, and right wing policies can still be good.

'Call me Dave' has missed the boat. The zeitgeist that carried Blair to victory, and Hague to defeat, is dead. The peoples' desire for a bit of a spend up and a stronger state is dying. The new wave of thinking belongs to the libertarian right. And guess what? It has fuck all to do with the old Tories or the nasty right, and everything to do with a new approach to politics taking root in the hearts and minds of the public. More people want to see the reversal of the erosion of civil liberties. They want to see less tax, less interference, greater accountability and better democracy.

Cameron offers more of the same old New Labour same old - a strong EU, high taxes, a weak justice system, a bloated state, an unreformed welfare system and so it goes on.

You have everything to gain by Labour getting in again, and the Tories failing. Labour will carry on fucking the country, thus driving more and more people to eschew the left and remember never, ever to support them ever again. The Tories will be forced to reform, and this will entail having to listen to the public on issues. If they lose and still do not listen, they will die. It's that simple.

Would that be a bad thing?

Furthermore, if the Lib Dems get trounced, and this is looking likely, then they will have to look at the brand of liberalism they espouse. Perhaps they will consider choosing classical liberalism to replace progressive liberalism. A reversal, if you like, of what happened approximately one hundred years ago.

So, I implore you dear readers, to sack off the Tories at the election, and also sack of the Limps and Labour. Vote Libertarian, or failing their presence, UKIP. If both of these aren't there, vote Jury Team. If they aren't standing, then write some abuse on the slip and shove it in. Just don't vote for that bullshit pretend 'centre right' party that is, as Cameron believes, a party that has not a 'cigarette paper' between it and a centre left wing party.