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Salisbury Plain, Wessex, England.
Interests: England,carpet bombing France,And Germany,And possibly Cumbernauld,Landrover 110 CSW,Fender guitars,Ledaig,
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Well youtubed sir. Eat this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC__KZEbqYY
The English are coming.
Parliamentary and presidential systems
Constitutional systems have all kinds of titles for the individual with key operational Executive power - Chairman, Prime Minister, King, President, General, Emperor, and so on. And many systems have another individual, without operational power but with the power to intervene in special circum...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qps4fOCysg
Call it 'plebiscitary presidentialism', or whatever. Whatever.
Parliamentary and presidential systems
Constitutional systems have all kinds of titles for the individual with key operational Executive power - Chairman, Prime Minister, King, President, General, Emperor, and so on. And many systems have another individual, without operational power but with the power to intervene in special circum...
100% agreed.
Lee Rotherham: Life after Klaus-trophobia
By Lee Rotherham Brussels orbiters are having their moment of triumph. Recent vitriolic attacks on the Czech President by the Left and by continental integrationists have told us more about the commentators than the man himself. The Bohemians on both sides have proved their true worth. There is...
Thanks for being smug. Relation of Dave's by any chance?
Lee Rotherham: Life after Klaus-trophobia
By Lee Rotherham Brussels orbiters are having their moment of triumph. Recent vitriolic attacks on the Czech President by the Left and by continental integrationists have told us more about the commentators than the man himself. The Bohemians on both sides have proved their true worth. There is...
Just had a bit of a straw poll. From the Shires the view is that:
'Cameron has just lost my vote'
He lost mine a while ago, as an Englishman, but God knows who he represents now? Who? Anyone but Labour does not quite cut it.
The Conservative Party? Death by a thousand cuts and could someone please take the Stanley knife away from this clueless edjit before it is too late.
Lee Rotherham: Life after Klaus-trophobia
By Lee Rotherham Brussels orbiters are having their moment of triumph. Recent vitriolic attacks on the Czech President by the Left and by continental integrationists have told us more about the commentators than the man himself. The Bohemians on both sides have proved their true worth. There is...
'meant much bigger in the sense there was stuff to do.'
Que? Stuff to do? God we must destroy the plebs:
'council estate'?
You, sir or possibly madam, are a moron.
Labour leader of Sandwell Council resigns after theft charge
Cllr Bill Thomas has resigned as leader of Labour controlled Sandwell Council after being charged by the police with theft of a cheque. He will appear at Sutton Coldfield Magistrates on October 30. Sandwell is among the politically correct Councils in Britain - this is in a highly competitive fi...
'The money was put towards a much bigger St Georges day event into the town park. Don't jump to conclusions when you don't know all the facts.'
'Thousands of people turned West Bromwich into a sea of red and white as Britain’s biggest St George’s Day parade took place.
Yesterday’s event was hailed a resounding success after nearly 20,000 people turned up from all over the country.
Police said the 1.7 mile walk went ahead without a hitch. The walk is the biggest of its kind in the country and attracted nearly double the amount of people that had turned out to the Sandwell Council-run St George’s Day fun day in Dartmouth Park on Saturday.'
Comment is free, facts are sacred.
Labour leader of Sandwell Council resigns after theft charge
Cllr Bill Thomas has resigned as leader of Labour controlled Sandwell Council after being charged by the police with theft of a cheque. He will appear at Sutton Coldfield Magistrates on October 30. Sandwell is among the politically correct Councils in Britain - this is in a highly competitive fi...
'It is still hard to believe that 26% will vote Labour - it must be stamped on their dole entitlement documents - perhaps even on their birth certificate - Father's Occupation: Labour Voter.'
Christ. Do you really think that?
............
Having been gravely disappointed by Dave and not wanting to do anything unsavoury on one's chips as the triumphant ascendency kicks in but there is another mood in this land, internet based, that will explode because the assumption of traditional party structures failed to catch up. Farting about with arcane party user-friendly product descriptions rather misses the point.
And selling to Lord Ashcroft rather illustrates the point.
Lots of Tory, yeah we're the bloggers but now we spread our legs for Dave and the kudos/salary, New Media is us (qualified), but who makes the newsrooms? Now?
The English Defence League. Arguably ten bloggers and a cactus plant but far more newsworthy than yo dude we are the the Modern Conservatives what does progressive on t'interweb.
A died-wool Tory.
19% Tory lead in News of the World/ ICM poll would produce Commons majority of 170
Tim Montgomerie
You are entirely correct. That's what England is for, it is our civic duty.
Tory lead up to 17% in first post-Manchester poll
Good news but there is likely to be an immediate bounce effect here (as there was for Brown when the Tory lead shrunk to 7%). Let's wait a week before reading much (if anything) into the Conference season. Tim Montgomerie
Little known facts Part 293.
Osborne's 'Sharing the pain'. The public sector 'pay freeze' in 2011. In 2005, falling behind Northern Ireland at one third of the workforce, the public sector in Scotland employed one quarter of the workforce.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/images/charts/1292A.gif
Some 500,000 public sector employees in Scotland will not be subject to any pay freeze in 2011 as Phil Hammond acknowledges.
Sharing the pain? The Scottish government has already stated that it will not impose a freeze.
Tory lead up to 17% in first post-Manchester poll
Good news but there is likely to be an immediate bounce effect here (as there was for Brown when the Tory lead shrunk to 7%). Let's wait a week before reading much (if anything) into the Conference season. Tim Montgomerie
Speaking as a grass-rooted Tory I would tend to consider myself and my ilk as the target audience today but I am left less than moved and, actually, quite indignant having read the full text of today's call to smarms.
It feels like we are locked together in a room full of petrol fumes and the sole objective of the political establishment is to keep the matches away from the children. The Janet and John guide to politics where heaven forfend we actually address that stench of explosive or at very least tell us where the fire extinguishers are.
The unintelligible response to Lisbon 'in out shake it all about' is authoritarian at best and the way that Boris was 'warned off' the worst of Blairite control freakery.
England went without a mention with the only discussion of the English Question being on R4 Today where the issue was discussed by our one and only Scottish MP and an SNP MP.
On R4 Toady today we were informed that Scottish schoolchildren are worth up to 80% more than English schoolchildren in terms of state investment. And one of our flagship policies is to charge English pensioners £8000 a pop to live in their own homes whilst the Scottish get that by right and with an additional subsidy payment.
How are English pensioners, English schoolchildren, English students, the English ill worth less to the state?
Where is this justice and welfare equality? Inequality of provision of basic state services is not justice.
Compassion should not be relative.
My leader, my party, believes that it is.
Compassionate conservatism is for real
I sometimes worry about the detail of Project Cameron but his one nation vision of conservatism is impressive. Today's Party Conference speech should prove once again that David Cameron is serious about social justice. Harry Benson wrote about the steep marginal tax rates facing the poor on Ce...
Do we like grey squirrels? I don't. Neither do red squirrels or trees. Red squirrels because they are thick and endangered and trees because they deforest by eating the new shoots.
Double whammy! Grey squirrels make ANIMALS extinct and kill TREES thereby causing global warming. Leftie Armageddon on squirrels.
But they look quite nice and are really bright. And some of them wear little velvet jackets and bow ties. And monocles.
Tips on shooting them as follows: Poke their homes with long poles until they venture out then let them scuttle about for a bit in the canopy until they stop to have a look about (they always do).
Then blow their little squirrel heads off with No.6 shot.
I think that this ticks all the right boxes.
David Cameron went hunting. So what?
In his Today programme interview this morning, David Cameron was asked about whether he had ever been hunting. It's hardly the most topical and urgent of issues, and as far as I was aware, I thought it was pretty well known that Mr Camerion had been hunting in the past - before the class warrri...
'thge'?
Is this a Klingon expression?
I 'ceratinly' think so. The trouble with clearing up the [sic] is that one has to be doubly courtshess.
Someone in Manchester didn't fix the roof while the sun was shining
The accusation that, in terms of the economy, he didn't fix the roof while the sun was shining, is regularly levelled at Gordon Brown by leading Conservatives. But today in Manchester that accusation is all too literal. The weather is dreadful - it hasn't stopped raining all day. And as I was sa...
Oh, but that Hannan/Johnson dream ticket so appeals. Precision bombing rather than carpeting the marginals with love-bombastic platitudes.
But. It ain't gonna happen any time soon so let's do a Henry Mayhew and stand shoulder to doffed cap with Cameron and deny the enemy the ammunition.
Boris tells George Osborne: If I can find savings in London, you can find savings in Whitehall
After entering the conference hall to the theme tune to EastEnders (having appeared on the show last week), London Mayor Boris Johnson gave a typically confident speech to the conference in which he said that if he was able to find savings in London after eight years of the Livingstone regime,...
'Yes can we please nail this crap. The money sent to Scotland, Wales etc is allocated by those devolved areas. It's still the same amount, there isn't extra sent for free prescriptions.'
'The Scottish decision leaves English ministers with an embarrassing problem. They have made it clear they are not prepared to pay the £1bn that it would cost to introduce a similar scheme but are under strong pressure from organisations representing elderly people to ensure equitable treatment across the United Kingdom.'
Are you a bit thick?
Rolling record of Tory policy announcements at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference
Tuesday 6th October: Bringing forward the raising of the pension age (Guardian and ToryDiary) All the other announcements in George Osborne's speech - incuding the public sector pay freeze for 2011 - are identified here Halting the funding of new speed cameras and the rolling out of average spe...
Very well said Gitmo Kid.
The arrogance of our political elite is that they will offer bread to one citizen in an expression of smug vote grubbing benevolence whilst entirely ignoring the cake already available to others in exactly the same country. And charge £8,000 for the kindness.
Why should an Englishman/woman be of less value to the state than a Scotsman? We will be told that it is unaffordable but somehow affordable when it is is anyone but us. And charge us for the means for making it affordable for anyone but us.
Anyone but England.
Rolling record of Tory policy announcements at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference
Tuesday 6th October: Bringing forward the raising of the pension age (Guardian and ToryDiary) All the other announcements in George Osborne's speech - incuding the public sector pay freeze for 2011 - are identified here Halting the funding of new speed cameras and the rolling out of average spe...
'ITS A CHOICE THAT ALL PARTS OF THE UK MAKE WHEN DECIDING WHERE TO PLACE FUNDING.'
Hello Mr. Shouty. How does England make that choice? Exactly?
'In the event 52% of English MPs voted against the Government, 48% with the Government. But MPs elected outside England were a different matter altogether, of these MPs only 29% voted against the Government, with a whopping 71% supporting the building of a new £13bn runway on top of the ancient English village of Sipson.'
Sound cool to you?
WE ARE A LITTLE BIT ANNOYED-ISH
Rolling record of Tory policy announcements at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference
Tuesday 6th October: Bringing forward the raising of the pension age (Guardian and ToryDiary) All the other announcements in George Osborne's speech - incuding the public sector pay freeze for 2011 - are identified here Halting the funding of new speed cameras and the rolling out of average spe...
http://tinyurl.com/643j9v
Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation
Tuesday 23 March 1999
[Mr. Edward O'Hara in the Chair]
Draft Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999
This was when the English surrendered our oil under the direction of a subsequent First Minister.
Oliver Letwin was present at the shafting.
Rolling record of Tory policy announcements at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference
Tuesday 6th October: Bringing forward the raising of the pension age (Guardian and ToryDiary) All the other announcements in George Osborne's speech - incuding the public sector pay freeze for 2011 - are identified here Halting the funding of new speed cameras and the rolling out of average spe...
'Scotlands liberal government do things differently to the things our government would.'
Before having a pop at Mr. Gitmo do some understanding oneself.
There is no legal entity called the Scottish Government. It is an executive. It can call itself the Most Glorious Empire of Scotland the Brave or the Eternal Birthplace of Gordon Brown if it wants to but it is still an executive. Scotland Act 1998.
The British state remains, de jure, unitary with Westminster retaining the power to cancel Scotland. Which I am surprised didn't happen with the muppets releasing terrorists willy-nilly
Who is 'our government'? If there is a distinction between Westminster and Holyrood then this implies that there is an English equivalent. Which there isn't. There is a UK Government but England as a nation state has neither national status nor government even though we invented both concepts. And in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest nation state.
The asymmetric nature of the current devolution settlement that presents a serious threat to the Union.
'a few english people crying about things they do not even understand.'
What we do not understand is why the Conservative Party, the Party of England. Isn't. And will do everything within its power to silence the voice of England. Oh, UKIP's up for an English Parliament being the dreadful populists that they are.
When last asked, 68% of England wanted an English Parliament.
'Moreover, in a recent study of the Union, McLean and McMillan concluded more or less as Dicey had predicted: that England would lose patience with asymmetric devolution. The future of the Union, they argued, is likely to replicate the ‘Slovak scenario’, a scenario that ‘would be driven from England’ and by an ‘English backlash’.'
Arthur Aughey. University of Ulster. 2007.
Rolling record of Tory policy announcements at the Manchester Conservative Party Conference
Tuesday 6th October: Bringing forward the raising of the pension age (Guardian and ToryDiary) All the other announcements in George Osborne's speech - incuding the public sector pay freeze for 2011 - are identified here Halting the funding of new speed cameras and the rolling out of average spe...
Manchesterism
They'll be applying an ism to a whole nation next.
Manchesterism
What a coincidentally apt place the great City of Manchester is for this year’s Party Conference. We know the City today for its regeneration, glut of apartments, nearby Coronation Street, and a vague notion of an industrial glory built upon mills and factories long since passed. But Manchester i...
From 1 July (2002) people in xxxxxxxx who are assessed as requiring personal and nursing care will have their costs met by the state if they live at home and will receive payments of £145-£210 ($216-$313; €225-€327) a week, depending on their needs, if they are in care homes.
It will leave elderly people in xxxxxxxx better off than those in the rest of the United Kingdom, where personal care will continue to be means tested with the family home forming the means to be mean.
This seems like a good idea. Can we apply to England, Wales and NI?
Pensioners will keep their home and get free residential care if they pay £8,000 insurance fee under Tory plans
Tory plans to enable pensioners to avoid selling their home and still pay for long-term residential care are leading BBC bulletins today. As the Daily Mail and most other newspapers report, the Conservatives are saying that pensioners will be able to pay an £8,000 insurance fee and in return wil...
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I do hope that Resident Leftie or Northern Monkey do not make references to our manifesto.
MyConservatives.com has gone live
A few minutes ago, the Conservative Party's new campaigning website, MyConservatives.com, went live. A hugely exciting development in online electioneering and campaigning, Tim blogged about it at the beginning of the week and the Daily Telegraph carried this preview piece, noting that the pa...
Five hopes for the Tories in Manchester
Chris Grayling MP talking to ConHome at 9am on Monday on the theme of patriotic renewal.
England is 'renewed' but will the E word get a mention? No hope and the other one's Bob.
If officially promise to eat my own head if England even vaguely features in Manchester (England).
Five hopes for the Tories in Manchester
As we look forward to what we hope will be our last Party Conference in opposition here is my checklist of five hopes for what will be achieved in Manchester. (1) David Cameron needs a TV moment on the deficit: The next few years will require some painful budget measures. David Cameron and Geo...
Worth having a peek at Milly's vid. He seems only one gulp of helium away from both looking and sounding like Mr. Bean.
Poor chap. So nearly PM and now looking at a bus pass before his next pop at the top.
William Hague accuses David Miliband of insulting the Latvian Government
David Miliband's speech to the Labour conference this morning in a graveyard slot has been met with anger by his Tory shdaow, William Hague. The Foreign Secretary - whose speech is reproduced in its entirety here - said that Conservative MEPs in Brussels were sitting "with a collection of ou...
"Yes, we may be the underdog but we will not be bullied. This underdog is biting back."
This is the more interesting development rather than Harman's vapid outpourings. We need to expose this tactic before it embeds.
So let's go football. It is the appeal to the British value of the underdog that tends to aspire to the last minute winner in extra time rather than the assured arrogance of the Germanic approach. We like being write-offs and no hopers confounding expectation with a late rally and the sweetness of unexpected triumph.
Mandelson will have calculated the appeal of the underdog and the potential for arrogance from the Tories as evidenced in much of the this thread. The bullying. Guido's accusation of prescription drug dependency, Andrew Marr's attack, Brown's fear of total blindness and the Murdoch empire turning upon a man who is more sinned against than sinning.
From weakness and failure we have opportunity, as they say.
Harriet Harman launches heated attack on The Sun for abandoning Labour... and acts nasty against George Osborne
The BBC has a report: "Let's face it, the nearest their political analysis gets to women's rights is Page 3's news in briefs. We are all angry about the Sun this morning but I say to you: don't get bitter, get better. Don't get outraged, get out there. Don't get mad, get mobilised. Yes, we m...
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