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My point was an observation, highlighting the DUP's massive inconsistency on this issue, rather than suggesting what the DUP should be saying.
As a fervent supporter of the link-up between the Conservatives and the UUP - which will give people in Northern Ireland the first chance in the best part of four decades to vote for people who can play a full role in UK decision-making, potentially as members of a government rather than as a permanent opposition sideshow - I regard the DUP as political opponents.
I thought, however, that if any of the major political parties had said one thing in one arena and said something different in its manifesto on the same subject, that they would have been taken to task by the media.
Are the DUP confused about their policy on the European Union - or just misleading us?
The Better Off Out campaign, which favours British withdrawal from the European Union, counted 15 MPs of the last parliament as supporters, according to its website. And no fewer than eight of those 15 were MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party - meaning that only one of the DUP MPs in the last...
Testing, testing...
New comments system
Over the weekend we are introducing a new comments system. It will be operational across ConHome by tomorrow night and is already operational on this front page. By registering for a TypePad account your comments can, in future, be accompanied with a photo. That photo could be your mugshot or...
The Alan Amos in question is of course the former Conservative MP for Hexham!
Worcester on verge of being twinned with Gaza
The Daily Telegraph has the report: "The English city, famous as the birthplace of composer Sir Edward Elgar, is on the verge of becoming the first in the UK to be twinned with with Gaza City. The council's Twinning Association is now to consider an application which could be passed in the next ...
Loughton, in Epping Forest, Essex, is regarded as "East of England" in terms of the Government's English regions (which are also the boundaries for the European Parliamentary regions). The same goes for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Local Government by-election results for 19th February 2009
Yesterday's council by-election results show electoral advances for the BNP around the country - with the party gaining its first council seat in the south east of England, in Sevenoaks. Swanley St Mary’s, Sevenoaks district council BNP - 41% (+41) Lab - 34% (-21) Con - 25% (-) (UKIP did not sta...
ACT - and others,
I am merely keen that comments made are within the bounds of the libel laws and ask all contributors to our threads to respect that.
Boris uses the F-word in furious phone call to Keith Vaz
The Evening Standard has a story about the Mayor of London Boris Johnson using the F-word in a telephone conversation with Keith Vaz, the Labour MP and publicity seeking Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee. A minute circulated of the conversation says the Mayor used the F-word ten time...
GB£.com - please let's not get personal about others commenting on the thread.
Boris uses the F-word in furious phone call to Keith Vaz
The Evening Standard has a story about the Mayor of London Boris Johnson using the F-word in a telephone conversation with Keith Vaz, the Labour MP and publicity seeking Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee. A minute circulated of the conversation says the Mayor used the F-word ten time...
David - it is the one I linked to at the bottom of today's newslinks, is it not - Statistics chief inflames row over foreign workers?
Thursday 12th February 2009
10pm WATCH Lord Pearson and Lord Ahmed debate whether Geert Wilders should have been allowed into the UK 5pm Alex Deane on CentreRight on the Conservative Party's failure to denounce the Government's refusal of entry into Britain of Geert Wilders: "We either believe in freedom of speech or we...
Adam Hume - I don't believe what I wrote was nasty and snide, but if you take that view then so be it.
However, your suggestion that I have "targeted" Philip Hollobone because of his support for Better Off Out is absolute nonsense, not least because I am extremely sympathetic to his views on Europe. I also assure you that no one has briefed me against him.
Britain's cheapest MP is a Tory - but how does he do it and is it healthy?
Philip Hollobone, who was elected as Conservative MP for Kettering in 2005 at his second attempt, revels in being the country's "cheapest MP" and is the subject of a profile published on the BBC website today. Last year his claim of less than £45,000 on taxpayer-funded allowances amounted to m...
BB - It was me who overwrote your original comment. In trying to uphold certain standards on the site, I felt that writing four-letter words in full was inappropriate.
Tuesday 3rd February 2009
8.30pm ToryDiary: Is Simon Heffer paid according to the number of rude words he can use against David Cameron in a single column? 8.30pm Matt Sinclair on CentreRight calls on the Conservatives to abandon "the more ineffective and economically destructive of Labour's environmental policies". ...
Parvez,
You accuse us - wrongly - of censorship. There are a number of entries pending publication and yours is among them. That said, I am still keen to get as many nominations as possible, so please email them to jonathan@conservativehome.com.
Search for 100 Peers: Brian Walden
Here is the latest nomination in our series highlighting people David Cameron should consider appointing to the House of Lords. If you would like to nominate someone, please email Jonathan Isaby with your suggestion, ideally including key arguments for the nomination as well as biographical i...
For the record, neither Tim nor I has been contacted by Steve Foley regarding his comment above.
However, with regard to what he says, I would merely say that in our efforts to provide comprehensive coverage of what is being said and written by and about the Conservative Party and David Cameron etc, we link to all kinds of articles and sites, and inevitably they include websites and commentators with whom we may disagree.
In this case, I have made it clear that the game is completely unofficial and not something that David Cameron has sanctioned; and I would have thought it went without saying - but here goes anyway - that ConservativeHome would not approve of using violence to demonstrate opposition to a policy in this way.
Having explained what it's all about, readers can choose whether or not they want to click through to the game. Similarly, they can also choose whether or not they want to read more of the thoughts of David Cameron, Polly Toynbee, Maria Miller, Ken Livingstone, Michael Portillo and others today based on the previews we have offered.
Saturday 17th January 2009
7.45pm: ToryDiary: ComRes poll for Independent on Sunday has Tory lead at 9% 6.45pm ToryDiary: Sunday Times/YouGov poll puts Tory lead at 13% 4.45pm Jonathan Isaby on CentreRight: The Times's contribution to the Tory marginal seats campaign 10.45am WATCH: The Telegraph's Andrew Pierce pours scor...
Jamie - Nadine Dorries was present for that vote!
Which Labour MPs voted with the Tories over the committee to investigate the Damian Green raid?
As I pointed out earlier in a post on CentreRight, all but nine Conservative MPs were present yesterday to vote in the crunch division - defeated by four votes - which sought to allow the Speaker's committee investigating the raid on Damian Green's office to be set up along the lines that the Sp...
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Defection watch: Bradford Labour councillor joins the Conservatives
Bradford City ward councillor Munir Ahmed (pictured) has resigned from the Labour Party to join the Conservatives. He will now take the Conservative Whip and sit as a member of the Conservative Group in City Hall. Cllr Ahmed commented: "Over the past few months, I have become increasingly di...
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