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Ipswich, of course
Interests: genealogy, .......... and supporter of the football club that my grandfather played for! also interested in history, computing and other sports.
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........... and will carry on sliding - there is only one home for practical Eurosceptics.
62% say Cameron was right to use the veto. Only 19% disagree.
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter Sunday at 10.45pm: A Populus poll for The Times (£) confirms public backing for David Cameron. It finds 57% support the PM's use of Britain's veto with only 14% against. Even 49% of Lib Dem voters support the PM. *** There'll be happy faces inside Numbe...
Whatever the future holds, Britain has goods and services to sell and we cannot wish other EU economies to be damaged much further. The euro must break up but a soft landing is essential.
By two-to-one, Tory members think €uro should break up in orderly way
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter On Thursday we conducted a special pre-summit poll. The Daily Mail ran with it yesterday morning. I had intended to cover the results then too but when I got out of bed it seemed more important to cover the sensational overnight news. Anyhow here are the ...
Ah, the PRESSURE GROUP. Still, we shouldn't be intruding on private grief, should we David;)?
Conservatives emphasise rise in state pension and tough knife crime policies in the Feltham and Heston by-election
By Matthew Barrett Follow Matthew on Twitter. The Conservative campaign in the Feltham and Heston by-election is putting out new leaflets this weekend. The first leaflet (pdf available here) details the government's policies for pensioners, listing free eye tests, free prescriptions, free bus...
The Hippo's ex-partners include both Red Ed and Redder Ed.
The BBC reports the story of the boy who told the Emperor he had no clothes
By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter A small boy was isolated in a crowd of 26 people yesterday evening when he claimed that the Emperor is wearing no clothes. The child is reported to have cried out: "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" before rapidly being silenced by 23 members of the cr...
Oh it is such a disaster for the Conservatives to be the largest party, with a hundred net gains (unprecedented since 1931), the only major party to gain seats, just twenty short of a majority with scope for many more gains next time.
I think both you and Baldwin should think again.
Cameron enjoys his best ever newspaper coverage but the BBC is spinning for Brussels
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter If you read ConHome's front page today you'll get links to probably the best press that Cameron has enjoyed since becoming Prime Minister. Each columnist is competing to outdo the others. "Genius," declares Peter Oborne. Cameron has been braver, in a se...
Your pressure group is indeed approaching the propinquity of it's termination.
Newslinks for Saturday 10th December 2011
9.30pm ToryDiary: 62% say Cameron was right to use the veto. Only 19% disagree. 6.15pm ToryDiary: By two-to-one Tory members think €uro should break up in orderly way 5.30pm WATCH: Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies: "I think David Cameron has let us down very, very badly" 3.45pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react t...
Goodbye.
Newslinks for Saturday 10th December 2011
9.30pm ToryDiary: 62% say Cameron was right to use the veto. Only 19% disagree. 6.15pm ToryDiary: By two-to-one Tory members think €uro should break up in orderly way 5.30pm WATCH: Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies: "I think David Cameron has let us down very, very badly" 3.45pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react t...
I have read your pronouncements in the three and a bit years I have been on here and you have always taken an anti-Conservative line. Perhaps, when you claim to be "supporting the party all through my life", you should declare that you mean the Labour party, just like the other JS.
Cameron enjoys his best ever newspaper coverage but the BBC is spinning for Brussels
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter If you read ConHome's front page today you'll get links to probably the best press that Cameron has enjoyed since becoming Prime Minister. Each columnist is competing to outdo the others. "Genius," declares Peter Oborne. Cameron has been braver, in a se...
The first recorded case of a rat joining a sinking ship.
Newslinks for Saturday 10th December 2011
9.30pm ToryDiary: 62% say Cameron was right to use the veto. Only 19% disagree. 6.15pm ToryDiary: By two-to-one Tory members think €uro should break up in orderly way 5.30pm WATCH: Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies: "I think David Cameron has let us down very, very badly" 3.45pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react t...
Whilst DC triumphs in Brussels and the 'kippers return to their well-deserved irrelevance, President Sarkosy commented "Allons, allons. Nous travaillerons."
No wonder David Campbell Bannerman came home to the practical Eurosceptic party, from the Brussels wine bar pressure group.
Newslinks for Saturday 10th December 2011
9.30pm ToryDiary: 62% say Cameron was right to use the veto. Only 19% disagree. 6.15pm ToryDiary: By two-to-one Tory members think €uro should break up in orderly way 5.30pm WATCH: Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies: "I think David Cameron has let us down very, very badly" 3.45pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react t...
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ............
Another sour and boring strolling player.
Newslinks for Friday 9th December 2011
5.15pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react to Cameron's EU veto (Rolling Blog) Mark Pritchard MP said: "the unintended consequence of these negotiations is that it seems more, not less likely that there will be an EU referendum on the UK's relationship with the EU within this Parliament" 5pm Teatime newslink...
After the European summit broke up, President Sarkosy commented "Allons, allons. Nous travaillerons."
Newslinks for Friday 9th December 2011
5.15pm MPsETC: Tory MPs react to Cameron's EU veto (Rolling Blog) Mark Pritchard MP said: "the unintended consequence of these negotiations is that it seems more, not less likely that there will be an EU referendum on the UK's relationship with the EU within this Parliament" 5pm Teatime newslink...
A voice of reason ...............
"Britain will never condone" torture. It is "abhorrent" and "wrong", says William Hague
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter In a frank speech about the role of the intelligence service, and Foreign Office today, William Hague effectively apologised for British complicity in torture. "Allegations of UK complicity in extraordinary rendition leading to torture", he said, had...
"I like John Major. For those who have never been up close and personal with him .........."
Is there something you are trying to tell us, Elaine?
Cameron is reminding me of Major but it's time to remember what Major achieved
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter Over the last couple of days Bruce Anderson has been doing exactly what I hoped he would do when I asked him to join ConservativeHome. He's been defending David Cameron from right-wing "belly-achers" (like Iain Martin and, I think, like me). He's been tel...
I am all for the Eurozone breaking up and was on the record in opposing it's creation. It is also important that it breaks up without further damage to the individual national economies - because Britain needs to carry on selling our products and services to them to carry on growing. Conservatives, on here and beyond, think about this before we speak out but the strolling players do not.
Newslinks for Tuesday 1st November 2011
9.30pm On Comment, Andrew Lilico sets out the state of play on Greece and the wider Eurozone crisis 7.30pm MPsETC: Robert Halfon MP's petrol prices e-petition cleared for debate by the Backbench Business Committee Updated with the proposed motion of the debate 7.15pm WATCH: Vince Cable: "It's se...
Isn't it strange that when the British economy starts to throw off the problems created by the last Labour Government, their apologists seem to want to deal with their structural deficit by spending more and raising less?
Newslinks for Tuesday 1st November 2011
9.30pm On Comment, Andrew Lilico sets out the state of play on Greece and the wider Eurozone crisis 7.30pm MPsETC: Robert Halfon MP's petrol prices e-petition cleared for debate by the Backbench Business Committee Updated with the proposed motion of the debate 7.15pm WATCH: Vince Cable: "It's se...
Quite - I expect certain others see it as "a faraway country of which we know very little" and don't want to know any more.
Nadine Dorries MP: Why I went to Equatorial Guinea
Nadine Dorries is MP for Mid Bedfordshire. During August I led the first British Parliamentary delegation of MPs to Equatorial Guinea which resulted in the report linked to in this article which we have dedicated to the EG children who washed in rivers. The trip was undertaken with some trepidat...
Others haven't;)
Newslinks for Saturday 29th October 2011
2pm Local Government: Is Brent Council worried volunteers running a library would fail? Or that they would succeed? 1.45pm ConHomeUSA: Today's top Republican and American political news 1pm MPsETC: Apprenticeships - the government's "remarkable, unprecedented" success story 11.45am ToryDiary: C...
This article is far from partison - as Harry's comparison between Brent and Lewisham shows, even Labour authorities can change if they want.
Is Brent Council worried volunteers running a library would fail? Or that they would succeed?
Labour-run Brent Council has been causing dismay for closing libraries without allowing volunteers to keep them going. In a report in the Daily Telegraph, the Council leader Cllr Ann John, says: “We didn’t turn our faces against a Big Society solution." But Margaret Bailey, a leader of the Save ...
Farrago is good at that, definitely, but is usually in a Brussels/ Strasbourg wine bar when Britain's interests are being discussed.
Newslinks for Friday 28th October 2011
7.15pm WATCH: Nick Clegg: "These reports of huge increases in top pay are just a slap in the face" 6pm WATCH: William Hague presents Australian Foreign Secretary Kevin Rudd with an unusual gift - goose fat 5.15pm Local government: Council byelection results from yesterday 5pm: Today's teatime n...
Vat's a good idea.
Capitalism is in danger
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter Earlier today a report from Income Data Services noted that pay for the directors of Britain's top businesses rose by 49% over the last year once salary, benefits and bonuses were counted. These increases were much greater than any increase in profitabili...
"Brennan had previously spoken in favour of the same motion in his debut speech to the Oxford Union - as a student."
He has obviously not matured since then.
Incidentally, I hope he cleared this speech with Shadow Cabinet members such as Mrs. Dromey, "Redder Ed" Balls
and any other privately educated ones I cannot think of at the moment - to be fair, it is an exceptionally large Shadow Cabinet, which makes up for the lack of quality.
Labour Shadow Education Minister argues for the abolition of private schools
By Matthew Barrett Follow Matthew on Twitter. Stephen Twigg, a Blairite reformer, was appointed to the Shadow Education brief in Ed Miliband's last reshuffle. As a former Education Minister who helped the drive for academy schools in the New Labour years, it was hoped his appointment might sign...
"UKIP leader Nigel Farage claims he's in discussion with Tory MPs and MEPs about defecting http://t.co/ZdDOtxRF"
Then again, he might be better deployed trying to stop his own MEPs from defecting TO the Conservatives - one already this year. He can't lose any MPs because he cannot have fewer than the zero who were elected in the first place.
Newslinks for Friday 28th October 2011
7.15pm WATCH: Nick Clegg: "These reports of huge increases in top pay are just a slap in the face" 6pm WATCH: William Hague presents Australian Foreign Secretary Kevin Rudd with an unusual gift - goose fat 5.15pm Local government: Council byelection results from yesterday 5pm: Today's teatime n...
Yes!
Ken's tactics to portray Boris as lazy backfires - raising questions about his own workrate as Mayor of London
By Joseph Willits Follow Joseph on Twitter In an embarrassing twist for Ken Livingstone's election campaign, statistics used to accuse Boris of laziness have backfired. Official statistics suggest, that Boris's attendance at official meeting is in fact double compared to his predecessor. On L...
Prison works - it isn't rocket science.
In the battle against knife criminals it's Nick de Bois MP 400 and Ken Clarke nil
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter 24 hours ago Ken Clarke was telling the House of Commons that mandatory sentences for 16 and 17 year-olds were "un-British". Today he's been forced to climb down in the face of a tenancious campaign by The Sun and from Conservative backbencher Nick de Bo...
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