Isn't the basic Tory attitude to Europe that a common free trade area/community is alright, but unaccountable supranational economic and political union is not?
Isn't the Tory position on gay marriage that if you ditch the religious heterosexual basis of marriage, you might as well junk the whole institution as it becomes non-sensical (quite a good secularist argument, as it happens), which Tebbit was illustrating with some weak jokes?
In theory, these are conservative postitions (certainly the latter is). Why shouldn't a conservative party be making these arguments if it has any philosophical weight or integrity left?