If only these wingnuts were more like British conservatives

Third, the Conservatives do not embrace the Tea Party vision of government as malevolent force. “I don’t believe in laissez-faire,” Cameron said. “Government has a role not just to fire up ambition, but to help give it flight.”

He ticked off examples: a Green Investment Bank, infrastructure projects such as high-speed rail and super-fast broadband, even “a New Enterprise Allowance that gives money and support to unemployed people who want to start their own business.”…

Fifth, and this may be the result of their falling short of an outright majority and the resulting coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the Tories seem to understand that politics can be a matter, as Cameron put it, of “reasonable debate, not tribal dividing lines.”