Scottish Tory home truths
3 October 2011
The Scottish Tory leadership debate has throw up some home truths.
Murdo Fraser, MSP, Deputy Leader of the Scottish Tories said during the leadership hustings at the Party Conference in Manchester: “Our Party in its current state is not fit for purpose.” So now you know.
Christian Tories might wonder why they are voting for such a Party when Murdo Fraser has said: “We are still a long way from being a real force in Scottish politics. In order to become one we require renewal and change.” He said that Scottish Tory research shows that they lack a distinct Scottish identity. The SCP didn’t need expensive research to work this out in our own case, and we completed this transformation last year ahead of the Tories and Labour. It seems that the Tories have difficulty on the doorstep. Murdo Fraser said that they wanted “a chance to be heard”, so that people will “open the door to us”. If people will not open the door to the Tories, Christians may consider joining the SCP. The Scottish Leader will be speaking on local elections and doorstep evangelism at the Annual Conference in Glasgow on 8/10/2011.
The Tories have little influence in Scotland, and they are upset about it. The Scottish Christian Party has a little influence, but we are happy to promote our message and to speak to people on the doorstep. Jesus says to His Church: “I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: you have a little strength, have kept my word, and have not denied my name.” Murdo Fraser commented in the Monthly Record: “If you look at the Christian political parties, they didn’t do well enough to win any seats, but they got tens of thousands of votes. Particularly in somewhere like the Highlands and Islands, the Scottish Christian party did quite well.”
Margaret Mitchell, another of the leadership contestants, said that in Scotland the Tories were not just down to their core vote but to the bare rump. In the Scottish Regional vote, the Tories got 250,000 votes and the SCP got 16,000 votes. The SCP delivered more value for money, more votes for the money spent, so imagine what we could deliver if Christians would give us the funding we need.
It is not mere identity, nor even policies which Scotland needs, but Christian leadership to put us back on the straight and narrow, rather than the ConDem Alliance mantra of “fairness and common sense”, which is neither fair nor obviously common sense, and which covers a multitude of inequalities, especially against Christians.
