Three reasons why the Tories haven't got it right

Jim Pickard makes a very good point over at his Westminster blog citing three reasons why the Cameron message may not have got through to the outer echolons of his party.

One has already been noted on this blog,Daniel Hannan's undefending of the NHS but Jim picks two more

1.Edward Garnier, shadow justice minister, is out and about trying to repeal the Hunting Act of 2004. Again, the Conservative leadership claim this is a one-man campaign and fox-hunting will not feature in the manifesto. Yet the issue is Old Conservative. Raising it at this point in the electoral cycle is a mistake.

2.George Osborne’s claim on Monday that the three-year pay deals for nurses, teachers and police could be re-opened. This is dangerous territory. Sure, there is public concern about the bloated state. People don’t like chief executives of local authorities making £200,000 a year, true. And there is envy about superior pensions in the public sector.