In my posts on 20 and 28 December 2009, I wondered whether David Cameron's election as Conservative Party leader meant the death of traditional England.  Mr. Cameron has been ruthless in purging the Conservative Party of its members who hold traditional views and/or browbeating them into cowed acceptance of his 'modernising' agenda.

One could almost imagine that Mr. Cameron wanted to turn the Tory Party into what an Old Etonian imagines the Liberal Party to be.

(The real Liberal Democratic Party, of course, has a northern, urban wing which plays rough, nasty, left-wing politics in rundown cities. And in rural/middle-class areas it plays dirty tricks while the 'respectable folk' aren't looking.)

Mr. Cameron must be thinking that Father Christmas has come early.  Suddenly, here he is as the Prime Minister of a Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition Goverment.  What better position from which to tell traditional Tories that he cannot accommodate their views?

But...

The Liberal Democrats want to change the electoral system.

Conventional wisdom has it that this will benefit the left; because for about 100 years Labour and Liberals have competed for the anti-Tory vote.

I wonder...

Perhaps the next civil war will erupt on the right as traditionalists seek to re-capture the Conservative Party from the usurping Cameroons and/or they break away to form The English Party which wants separation from both Scotland and the European Union.

An Alternative Vote (AV) system would make it feasible for the traditionalists to start, and perhaps win, a civil war of this nature.