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Scott Carlton
nottinghamshire/derbyshire
A Traditional One Nation Tory
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The above saving could be made by scrapping the £25 billion promised to be spent on green projects. Let farmers and foresters produce us wood to burn in a carbon neutral cycle.
In addition reign in spending on consultants, tickets to the olympics, and so on. Whilst were at it, why not sell off a few antiques that the state owns and invest it into rehab centres for our brave armed service personal that are injured in service. It creates job for builder, electricians and helps us rehab injured soldiers back into society.
And lastly, let us leave the EU. That would immediately save us £50 million a day, and potentially alot more, whilst freeing up industries such as fishing to get on with their jobs effectively.
The £30 billion question: What should we cut next?
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter Last week George Osborne announced that austerity wouldn't end in time for the next election but would continue for at least another two years. This government or its successor is likely to need to find another £30 billion in cuts (although dramatic suppl...
Sign my petition if you agree with the above:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/10977
29 32 Tory MPs rebel against Britain's £9.3 billion EXTRA contribution to IMF bailouts
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. Last night at least 32 Tory MPs (listed below) voted with Labour against an 88% hike in Britain's contribution to the IMF. The hike is to partly fund the IMF's ability to fund bailouts. I write "at least" because I've only quickly scanned the voting lis...
Out of interest, I wonder what the Partys cash reserves are like? I know in Ruschliffe and across other constituencies there are declining numbers in people joing/rejoining the party. This fundamental question needs to be answered as a matter of urgency and I suspect it relates to the current direction of the party.
The Conservatives spent £49,205,000 during 2010
By Matthew Barrett Follow Matthew on Twitter The Electoral Commission today released the financial accounts of all UK political parties and "accounting units". The figures are for the year ending 31st December 2010 and so cover the 2010 general election. The accounts give figures for gross inco...
Now is the time to implement a flat tax system!!!
Is Boris right? Should Osborne cut taxes?
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. Telegraph story. Boris has underlined his reputation as troublemaker-in-chief and guardian of a more conventional conservatism in the last 24 hours. On LBC London's Mayor called for cuts in National Insurance and the 50p tax rate to get Britain's slugg...
Mohan Kera and I, will be standing for the Party in Rushcliffe. We are fighting for the Musters Ward which currently has two seats of which both are held by the Liberal Democrats.
Conservatives are standing thousands more council candidates than Labour and the Lib Dems at next month's elections
By Jonathan Isaby This afternoon, I have already indicated the lengths to which Labour has gone to try and increase the number of candidates it is standing at the council elections taking place on May 5th. Now that nominations have closed, I can share with you the figures collated by CCHQ as t...
As a party member I feel the Coalition have got this one wrong. It is further adding to the mess that the Labour government left behind in the higher education sector. It is just creating a lifestyle of debt, which is wrong, whilst destroying aspiration.
I believe firmly that this country needs universities that are open to all. Perhaps it is time this country grew a pair and stopped passing millions and millions of pounds to the Europe Union and spent it on paying off the national debt so we didn't have to make cuts to sectors like higher education.
A full breakdown of who voted which way and who rebelled in tonight's votes
By Jonathan Isaby Both divisions tonight - on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to £9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to £6,000 - saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against. Factoring in two tellers from each side, you had 325 MPs backing the Governme...
I have actually recently emailed Graham Brady on this subject. I await a reply.
The 1922 Committee should give the leadership an ultimatum over the next manifesto
by Paul Goodman Earlier this year, I asked how Party policy was to be developed for the next election - since the Government's official machinery, such as the Downing Street Policy Unit, works for the Coalition, not the Party. I identified three non-mutually exclusive options, as follows - Th...
Must of been an interesting day in Westminister, if this is one of the leading articles this evening ;)
Government whip makes speech from the Despatch Box - is this a first?
By Jonathan Isaby The above screengrab from BBC Parliament shows an image I have never seen before - a Government whip making a speech from the Despatch Box. Convention states that Government whips never speak in the chamber - so what on earth is James Duddridge doing at the Despatch Box? It's...
I hope to change that one day....
The Conservative Party is dying on its feet. But whose Party is it anyway? (Part One)
By Paul Goodman The Conservative Party is the largest force in local government. It may win the next election. But it's dying on its feet. Ponder the likely course of events - Membership is falling. It currently stands at roughly 177,000 - as this site reported during Party Conference. The P...
I disagree with the centralising of power agenda running through our party, however I am not going to sit here and criticise but try to put forward a possible solution.
Would it not be idea, for the party membership to vote in the Party Chairman and not for the Leader to choose. That way, there is direct link between the chairman and the membership. It certainly would drive up accountability, and party engagement.
The Party Chairman for me must also be the person who represents policy suggestions to the Leader from the grassroots.
The Conservative Party is dying on its feet. But whose Party is it anyway? (Part One)
By Paul Goodman The Conservative Party is the largest force in local government. It may win the next election. But it's dying on its feet. Ponder the likely course of events - Membership is falling. It currently stands at roughly 177,000 - as this site reported during Party Conference. The P...
Very well said.
The account of the Coalition negotiations by David Laws tells us little we didn't already know. It thus surely heralds his return to office.
By Paul Goodman David Cameron was desparate to avoid governing with the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg was keen to do a deal with Gordon Brown, because their personal relationship is strong. The Labour leader behaved selflessly throughout the Coalition negotiations, putting constitutional req...
Tim/Jonathen,
After reading this article by Donal Blaney, I have to question Conservative Homes decision to host this piece.
I acknowledge that as citizens of the UK, that we have the right to the freedom of expression, but when we sit and criticise Phil Woolas (quite rightly too) for his actions, don't you think this is a little bit hypocritical?
I would appreciate a response and not for my posting to be simply deleted.
Regards
Conservative Party Member
Donal Blaney: It’s time to rein in students’ unions and the NUS
By Donal Blaney, Chief Executive of the Young Britons’ Foundation. 42 years after the student riots of 1968, when NUS President Jack Straw was but a lad, student rioters are back. The criminal damage wrought in Westminster today highlights the way in which colleges, universities and students’ un...
Ed Millibands apppointments smack of his own weak standing within his own party. I wonder how long characters like Darling, and his own brother are going to stay quite on the back benches.
Full list of Shadow Cabinet appointments
By Jonathan Isaby We know who the 19 elected members of the shadow cabinet will be - but what jobs will they get? We will pass on the news as soon as we have it. 1.15pm - First jobs announced: Alan Johnson - Shadow Chancellor (up against George Osborne) Ed Balls - Shadow Home Secretary (up agai...
We have to remind people that Ed and David represent everything New Labour stand for. There no different to Blair and Brown and look how they've near bankrupted the country, and the mess that this government has to clear up.
Tories launch operation to paint the Milibands as a dangerous risk to the nation's finances
By Tim Montgomerie During the Labour leadership race the Tories kept their guns quiet but, as I blogged before, they were watching closely: "A senior campaigner at CCHQ was telling me that all of the Labour leadership candidates have significant weaknesses that he is looking forward to probing. ...
Didn't Mrs Thatcher once say, that privatising the Royal Mail was a step too far?!
Privatising the Royal Mail will cause many problems within rural areas, who depend on the service.
The Government will privatise the Royal Mail
By Jonathan Isaby It has been announced that the Government is to privatise the Royal Mail in what the Telegraph this morning suggests will be "the biggest sell off of a state-owned company for nearly two decades". "About time too", will be the refrain of many Conservatives, I imagine, althou...
Such a big elephant in the room when it comes to spending cuts...*ahem EU Membership and withdrawl*
Its unaffordable and completely flawed on so many levels. So lets come out and protect front line services that we really need.
As for the Gurkas. Sorry, I am a Tory but the Government has got this one wrong.
NHS Direct... The Gurkhas... Crossrail... The cuts get real
By Tim Montgomerie With the exception of Sheffield Forgemasters and the schools buildings programme the cuts programme has been largely academic so far but this weekend we began to get a better idea of the political pain that will begin with the autumn spending review. Three examples stand out: ...
Now the Government needs to get bank lending going again. I have spoken to many small business leaders, (including my own business) that have been declined finance, yet present strong proposals. This is not new money but money already in the system, and lets face it, most of it is taxpayers money!!
Priti Patel uses her maiden speech to praise the Thatcherite free market policies which allowed small businesses to flourish
By Jonathan Isaby During the adjournment debate before the Commons rose for the summer recess on Tuesday, the new MP for the Essex constituency of Witham, Priti Patel, took the opportunity to deliver her maiden speech. In paying tribute to the MPs who had hitherto represented the patch, she m...
David Laws has handed David Cameron the perfect opportunity to call a Oct/Nov election, but wait we are going for a fixed term parliaments and 55% majority to dissolve parliament.
David Laws has resigned according to ConHome sources
Chris Huhne or Jeremy Browne are his likely replacements. More soon... 7.50pm CONFIRMED 8.20pm: FULL TEXT OF DAVID LAWS' RESIGNATION LETTER. 8.35pm: FULL TEXT OF DAVID CAMERON'S LETTER TO DAVID LAWS.
Lord Prescott. Thats going to take abit of getting used to.
I wonder out of the Labour dissolution peers, how many of them will serve in the shadow cabinet?!
I still feel uneasy of having unelected ministers and shadow ministers. It does dilute democracy in my opinion. But then I guess under our parliamentary system , every minister is unelected, to a point. Difficult one really but we do rather shoot ourselves in the foot, by saying we want Lords reform but still have Peers sitting in Cabinet. Last year with Mandelson's unaccountability, it was a disgrace to Parliament.
Michael Howard, John Maples, Shireen Ritchie are among new Tory peers; John Prescott, Sue Nye and Quentin Davies become Labour peers
10 Downing Street has just published the list of 56 new peerages. Highlights: John Maples and Shireen Ritchie win peerages for their work in the candidates department. I regard Maples' elevation as an insult to grassroots Conservatives for the reasons stated here. Simon Wolfson, Chief Executive...
Speaking as an entrepreneur raising Capital Gains will choke off any private sector investment, and if this is the case then I would seriously consider moving my business affairs abroad. It will also discourage saving.
I understand the public finances are in a poor state and that the deficit has to be reduced immediately to return confidence to the economy and investors. However, simply raising Capital Gains to a comparative level as Income Tax will be counterproductive. Do this, and we shall be back in recession by the end of the year. I do support, for the time being, that the top rate of Income Tax stays as it is.
Personally to provide some cash flow into the governments coffer, the situation of Non-Doms needs sorting and the public money that went into the banking system, has to be started to be paid back gradually, with a profit as well. I am sure many may even support a windfall tax on the energy companies.
As a businessman and Conservative party member, I want the party to return back to its original line of reducing the over inflated spending on public services and other wasteful spending. I am all for the state providing universal public services but a government like the rest of us, has to live within its means. We need an effective atmosphere in this country to pay for the public services that we enjoy and depend on.
The current tax system does not work, it is totally flawed and in my opinion wastes money. We need to move to a Flat Tax System. Inheritance Tax has to be scrapped, firstly it’s immoral and secondly it’s expensive to collect. And lastly, I am going to stick to my own beliefs on this, but this country has to get out of the European Union. I’m sure doing that will bring the deficit down straight away, and I do not accept the line that it will cost thousands of jobs. Industry leaders, wherever in the world do not give a monkeys about the EU.
Madsen Pirie: Why the Coalition should rethink its plan to raise capital gains tax
Dr Madsen Pirie is the President of the Adam Smith Institute, a leading free market think-tank. The coalition has meant compromises; all coalitions do. Some things that should have happened will not, and some things will happen that should not. In the rough and tumble of politics things c...
What a load of utter tosh.....
On a positive though, nice to see Dennis Skinner in his NEW place.
John Bercow re-elected Speaker without a division
The Commons will meet at 2.30pm to elect its Speaker and I will be covering it here. 2.35pm The Royal Commission is happening in the Lords chamber to mark the technical opening of the Parliament. 2.38pm The new Father of the House, Sir Peter Tapsell, has taken his seat as chairman of today's pro...
Agreed Steve.
The LibDems may live to regret wishing for a hung parliament
“I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest,” Nick Clegg told the press, with a certain tone and emphasis on the words “capable” and “seeking”. There was something about that statement that felt odd; there felt more to it...
Was they are not?! So how do you explain this then?
http://www.akserps.com/aksderby/election/2010/index.html
To: scott.carlton@live.co.uk
The LibDems may live to regret wishing for a hung parliament
“I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest,” Nick Clegg told the press, with a certain tone and emphasis on the words “capable” and “seeking”. There was something about that statement that felt odd; there felt more to it...
Yes I take your point, Cameron has the right to start the discussions and I must admit Nick Clegg has proved himself most honorable today in keeping his word. Lets see what the morning brings. Hague seemed to be smiling when he left with Letwin and Osborne.
I just think it seems odd when nationally the electorate have rejected labour but locally embraced them?! Even some of my Labour friends who have run campaigns this year are totally baffled by the results so far.
The LibDems may live to regret wishing for a hung parliament
“I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest,” Nick Clegg told the press, with a certain tone and emphasis on the words “capable” and “seeking”. There was something about that statement that felt odd; there felt more to it...
I think it would of been positive for some of the councils with no overall control to come under Conservative control.
The LibDems may live to regret wishing for a hung parliament
“I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest,” Nick Clegg told the press, with a certain tone and emphasis on the words “capable” and “seeking”. There was something about that statement that felt odd; there felt more to it...
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