I WAS very pleased to see your restriction on letters of a political nature lifted now the General Election is over.

I can now reveal the minutes of a meeting held prior to the election in 2010.

It was held in a back room of Conservative Central and in attendance were the men in grey suits and senior politicians. The topic of discussion was, after 13 years in opposition, how to get and remain in power in Westminster.

The mood was up-beat and soon it was clear there would be no need to send out for Chardonnay ’48 or lobster, as they soon reached agreement over several important matters; how to reduce, if not eliminate, the influence of other political parties.

They accepted that if the Conservatives were unlikely to get a majority in the House of Commons, they may need a partner; naturally they looked to the Lib Dems to support them. As we all know this happened, but now they had to enact Act II of their drama – how to get rid of their partner.

With a discredited vote on PR voting methods and the fiasco on student tuition fees, their partners were effectively stymied.

Now they had to encourage ex-Tories, who had recently defected to the Lib Dems to come home. They did this with the mantra, “Let us have a mandate to complete the work (without the need to appease the LDs)”.

Seduced by this, the LD party was effectively wiped out. The only concession was to encourage tactical voting in Nick Clegg’s constituency, just as insurance, in case they needed him as leader of a taxi full of LDs to keep power.

The problem of the Labour Party was actually easier to deal with. Act III needed the Tories to awaken voters in Scotland, not to their views, as they only had one MP but to some other anti-Labour party, then they would neutralise Labour’s effect.

With nothing to lose, they encouraged a referendum in Scotland, so arousing anti-Tory views north of the border.

As we all know what happened in the referendum, it left a very strong anti-Tory passion in Scotland, but more importantly, if that strength of feeling could be channelled for their own candidates, and not by those of the Labour Party, then the Tories would be just as disliked north of the border, but by two parties, not one.

The Tories wouldn’t lose any MPs but would deny Labour the large number it had come to rely on.

So now we have a situation with no effective opposition to the Tories rule. If Scottish devolution comes along, why would they care if the country is divided?

They will sell the idea that Scotland is ‘expensive’ and so we should let them tax and spend themselves.

Of course, they will always be ‘associate members’ of the union for things such as defence. If the referendum over Europe results in us leaving them, then the threat from Ukip will have been dissipated.

Job done, Tories rule forever. Alternative options welcome.

BOB PIXTON Abney Moor Swindon