David Cameron IV

Dear David

Do not buckle at the slings and arrows.  One by one they are wounding you. Just catch them.  Bundle them together.  Coolly turn them into your big bazooka. 

There is only one issue:

It’s the economy stupid.

There is only one valid opinion poll:

May 2015

You are the Queen’s Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury in Whitehall.  I, all of us, need to respect you.  You must lead. 

Westminster and St Stephen’s Green, like the poor, are always there.  Get yourself a Willy.to handle them.

As Prime Minister you have no friends, just alliances and interests, and almost no power.  You have the power of persuasion, but it is indirect.  Your only direct power is the power of appointment.  It is the Prime Minister’s bazooka.  Use it.

Relieve Jeremy Hunt of his current office.  He can then deal properly with Leveson and the Ministerial Code.

Retire Vince “Mr Has Been” Cable.  The white paper on growth scheduled for November 2010 is now eighteen months overdue.

Appoint David Laws as Minister for Balanced Growth.  Give him ninety days to present a plan to cabinet and to parliament. 

Schedule two weeks of Growth Debate in August.  Call the Westminster claque and their “groupies” back off holiday.  To have any chance of survival, they all need you. 

Are you worried about A vote of confidence?  Tory Turkeys won’t vote for Christmas.  Nick is not going to commit suicide.  The Logger Eds have no money for an election and would not want to be in government.  Six months of the 2 Eds in power now would destroy the Labour Party forever.

Empower competent people in Whitehall and go to it.

Paws4Now

Jock

P.S.  Keep up the good work with the Boundary Commission and with that other real politician, Alec Salmond.

P.P.S.  Think Housing.   Think Level Playing Field.  Think Octavia Hill.  Re-read what I wrote to you on  7 October last year.