It's funny how an argument can be applied to one thing but not another.
Like saying Just Eat More when it comes to fruit and vegetables but suggesting restraint with desserts and chocolate bars. Obviously that makes sense. But two things that don't are the Tory party's views of Scottish independence and EU membership. These are two topics related by a theme.
For much of the summer we heard David Cameron banging on about how much better the UK is with Scotland as part of it. How it makes economic sense to stay together and cooperate. He and other Westminster politicians urged the Scottish voters not to go their own way but instead stay with England and Wales.
And yet Tory discussions of EU membership revolve around the excessive control from Brussels. The restrictions of being part of a bigger group and how the UK has lost control over its own affairs. Of course some of it is in response to the threat from UKIP, or England Independence Party as it should really be called. The Tories want to head off stampede to UKIP from Eurosceptic Conservative
voters.
voters.
But the contradictions are still there. The reality is the Tories want to run everything from Westminster with the Scots on board and no one from The EU looking over their shoulders.
Something that would be good for the Conservative party but not necessarily most people in the UK.