Trusties

Trust in political leaders has been so damaged in the last ten Labour years that the temptation to turn away from all who represent us in our social and political lives has to be resisted. Some politicians have earned and continue to deserve our attention.

William Hague, Conservative shadow Foreign Secretary, stands in that long line of Conservative politicians who can articulate the political will that transcends Party allegiance, except among the most bigotted and self-serving party crawlers.

David Cameron's speech today addresses the moribund and ugly socialist authoritarian collectivism embodied in the Labour government Executive and much of the constituent factions that make up Labour support. It does not address what most people in England are concerned about, (insofar as their concerns are political for we all have lives), the European Union Treaty for a Constitution for Europe, and England's involvement.

Quite rightly so, for the Conservatives regard relations with the European Union as the field of responsibility and competence of the Foreign Secretary; there is no 'one Party, one Leader' smack to Conservative governance, as Cameron underlines today. Nor is the Conservative Foreign Office portfolio assigned to a washed-up, conformist hack seeking to please the narrow focus of an even narrower Labour party faction that is definedly disloyal both to Party and to the electorate.

To hear Mr Hague in a considered and at length setting-out of Conservative understanding of past relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union , the current position and Conservative policy on it and, more than anything, a clear exposition of Conservative intentions and determinations towards the union of the United Kingdom and its relationship with the federal European state that is to be constituted this year, would be a contribution to our polity above Party, and beyond price.