Sir: After the February election most Conservatives were shattered at
the failure to alter the party leadership, and now that the latter has inevitably lost a third general election perhaps the charge of disloyalty will be withheld when a desperate plea for change is made by this former Conservative parliamentary candidate. This is still basically a Conservative country and it would not have required much ingenuity to defeat a government riddled with political envy and infested with mad schemes of nationalisation and industry bashing. But how could the electors be expected to bring back an administration which made so many wrong decisions and implemented them with unique boorishness? Once more it is proved that the voter is indifferent to socialism but simply will not risk a repetition of the 1970 Tory team. The Prime Minister has now won four general elections in ten years. Why? Res ipso loquitur.
If the Conservative Party is to survive it has to make a clean sweep and render itself attractive once again to an electorate which is highly responsive to its true ideals persuasively presented. You are passionately urged to continue to bring your influence to bear to achieve this result, and thus transform and elevate the political scene.
J. E. R. Wauchope The Old Rectory, Ripe, nr Lewes, Sussex.
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