Duncan Smith Looks to Bush for Tory Win--Independent, UK

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1//The Independent, UK 13 December 2004

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=592544



DUNCAN SMITH LOOKS TO BUSH FOR TORY WIN

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor

Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, says the Conservatives could win the next election with a Bush-style campaign based on a return to simple family values.

In a pamphlet published today Mr Duncan Smith echoes the "back to basics" call which caused controversy under John Major. He says there is a conservative majority in Britain which shares his party's values on marriage and the family, taxation, and social issues.

The Tories would be "unwise" to ignore "values voters", including churchgoers. In the US this group played a big part in the Republican victory, warns Mr Duncan Smith, who - unlike Michael Howard - has been a welcome visitor to the Bush White House this year.



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[T_i_B]

7. Well I go to church

so therefore I must be a wacko. :eyes:

Yet more anti-Christian bigotry on DU. What a suprise.

[LSdemocrat]

2. Too bad for the Conservatives they are a UK party and not a US one

[Fenris]

3. The British have Darwin on their ten pound notes.

I say they try a different group of voters.

[Mojambo]

4. Not without some Diebold help they won't n/t

[American Renaissance]

5. cute...

Does anyone remember which tory it was who was running an amature porn site featuring his wife?

[w4rma]

6. Hmm, lets see. They don't own the media there, yet (although Blair is

selling out to Murdoch as quickly as he can). Brits *hate* Bush and the U.S. Repug Party with a passion. The Christians in Britain are just regular Christians. Britain doesn't have a religious fundie infestation, like the U.S. does. Britain is more urban and less rural. Conservatives will never be able to do jack outside of the U.S. that isn't a 3rd world country, and in those 3rd world countries their neo-con/neo-liberal/anti-local buisness values destroy them.