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Domesday
Bramley, Guildford, Surrey
Interests: 11th century English medieval history (slightly narrow I know), English politics (given up on Scottish and Welsh),
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I doubt I'm wrong on this BrianSJ. I said 99.9% of elected Conservatives. More than 99% of elected Conservatives are county or district councillors who don't have the chance to scam their expenses like this.
The point I'm making is that the Tory party is much bigger than its MPs and that 99.9% of people who have stood and got elected as Conservatives have not scammed their expenses.
Guido, Hitchens and Tebbit are wrong
Guido Fawkes, joining Norman Tebbit and Peter Hitchens, has called on his readers to vote for UKIP, Libertas or even the Greens at the European Elections, depending upon their political inclinations. I'd urge all centre right voters to support the Conservatives on 5th 4th June. Here are a few a...
I agree with Tim. The Tory party is more than its MPs, and bigger than its MPs. 99.9% of elected Conservatives do not have their snouts in the trough. Do not punish them. Punish the 0.1%: deselect them now, cancel their membership now.
But voting for a party in UKIP whose expenses scandals are every bit as bad as the Tories? That doesn't make sense. It's saying "Tory MPs? You've been appalling on expenses and we want to punish you by voting in European elections which are nothing to do with Westminster for a party that is ....er... just as bad on expenses."
Guido, Hitchens and Tebbit are wrong
Guido Fawkes, joining Norman Tebbit and Peter Hitchens, has called on his readers to vote for UKIP, Libertas or even the Greens at the European Elections, depending upon their political inclinations. I'd urge all centre right voters to support the Conservatives on 5th 4th June. Here are a few a...
Most potent: 1) English votes on English matters, 2) referendum on Lisbon Treaty
Most transformational: 1) elected police chiefs, 2) power to parents to set up schools
But really what's missing is not a policy but a summary of policies (like Lorraine's leaflet only national and with broader policy themese. It's the equivalent of Blair's pledge card but with some more concrete if broad policy commitments: top 5 to 10 that people will remember.
What is the most electorally effective Tory policy and the most transformational Tory policy?
Over the weekend I published a leaflet from Lorraine Fullbrook that presented nine winsome Tory policies to the voters of South Ribble. A week ago I published a 'Medicine manifesto' of policies that Britain needed and which weren't necessarily Tory policy. Later this week I plan to publish a min...
Could ConservativeHome do us all a great service by contacting Judith Symes and inviting her to comment further on her wise words about her Dear Leader?
Where are the original A-Listers now? The 27 who are no longer looking for a seat
In the first of our series detailing what happened to the original 100 members of the party's so-called priority list of candidates, here we identify the 27 who are not now seeking a parliamentary seat for the next election. Four are either sitting MEPs seeking re-election or candidates hoping ...
Blimey. Is -8% the biggest ever drop for a party from one poll to the next?
BPIX gives Tories 19% lead
BPIX is related to YouGov so the changes are compared to the most recent YouGov poll. Less than an hour ago I reported a Sunday Telegraph survey with the Tories 17% ahead. 8.30am on Sunday 19th April We now have more details of the BPIX poll: David Cameron wipes the floor with Gordon Brow...
You know, I wonder if this will make people more polite? It's a bit shocking to click on my comment photo and find my face staring at me. I sort of feel that if I can put a face to a name I have to be more polite somehow? Know what I mean? I could ditch the photo...oh I don't know.
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...
Foot? yes principled, yes intellectual (rather than intelligent), yes resilient...but surely ever so slightly barking, in a nice way? His manifesto would have destroyed this country after all...
Brown humiliated in grassroots Labour survey
LabourHome asked: "Who has been the greatest Labour Leader over the last 30 years?" Details here.
Shame this polling has been before Alice Mahon's resignation from the party today. I suspect an old faithful from the heart of Labour territory resigning from the party will have more resonance amongst the Labour party than shenanigans at 10 Downing Street.
The Labour party is the most tribal of all parties: it doesn't matter about sleaze, but when the tribe breaks apart...
Sunday Telegraph poll has Tories 17% ahead in first post-McBride survey
An opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph puts the Tories 17% ahead. That's an increased lead of 4% and would give the Conservatives a parliamentary majority of 114 according to UK Polling Report's Swing Calculator. The poll is by a new entity called Marketing Sciences Ltd. I understand that...
Is this me?
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...
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