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Quite right Tory T. Redwood not only should but does know better.
Monday 19th February 2007
7.15pm ToryDiary update: ICM puts Tories on 40% (9% ahead) 4.45pm LondonMayor update: Angie Bray responds to extension of congestion charge 11.45am ToryDiary update: Bruce Anderson smears Tory members BLOGS ToryDiary: Michael Howard blamed for Tory debts Martin Sewell on YourPlatform: It's tim...
The idea of 30 or even 65 as arbitrary cut off dates is absurd; that said TomTom has a point in so much as experience counts for a great deal.
Wednesday 14th February 2007
7:45pm London Mayor update: Keeping Ken on his toes 11am ToryDiary update: Attack ad on Livingstone launched BLOGS ToryDiary: Child Poverty in Britain Seats and Candidates: Kingswood reselect Owen Inskip and Final four for Hampshire East YourPlatform: Martin Sewell on the LibDems' so-called p...
601
I am interested in your petition.
Do you know if it still is (ever was?) the case that Job Seekers Allowance is only paid to people who have paid sufficient NI contributions (in the relevant tax years), and that it is only payable for 26 weeks? If so I suspect you are looking at the wrong target. If people have paid in to the system and are actively looking for work why tether them. Perhaps I am mistaken but if not perhaps your should be looking at means tested benefits?
Wednesday 14th February 2007
7:45pm London Mayor update: Keeping Ken on his toes 11am ToryDiary update: Attack ad on Livingstone launched BLOGS ToryDiary: Child Poverty in Britain Seats and Candidates: Kingswood reselect Owen Inskip and Final four for Hampshire East YourPlatform: Martin Sewell on the LibDems' so-called p...
As a self confessed wrinkly SJM may be happy with ageism but I am not. Public and private pensions are in a problematic state (to say the least), a situation only made worse by an ageing population. We should therefore be encouraging and facilitating lifetime working.
Wednesday 14th February 2007
7:45pm London Mayor update: Keeping Ken on his toes 11am ToryDiary update: Attack ad on Livingstone launched BLOGS ToryDiary: Child Poverty in Britain Seats and Candidates: Kingswood reselect Owen Inskip and Final four for Hampshire East YourPlatform: Martin Sewell on the LibDems' so-called p...
Quelle surprise? I am at one with Graeme's scepticism regarding New Labour's crazy policy re Casino's and I can only concur with Mark Wadsworth that thoughts of China and memories of Heath make me queasy.
Wednesday 31st January 2007
8pm ToryDiary update: Terraces may return to the Premiership READ THE THIRD EXTRACT OF LIAM FOX'S DIARY FOR CONSERVATIVEHOME FROM WASHINGTON DC. Lunchtime blog updates: Cameron calls for Tony Blair to go and Ken Livingstone as the unacceptable face of London BLOGS ToryDiary: "Tory core support...
FWIW, I was at Oxford when the SDP first kicked off. It was very popular amongst the sons and daughters of our country's privileged elite. If twenty odd years on modern caring compassionate Conservatism is simply just another version of social democracy, God help us.
Tuesday 30th January 2006
EVENING UPDATES: £2M SUBSIDY WINS 2008 TORY CONFERENCE FOR BIRMINGHAM and LORD LEVY REARRESTED (BBC | IAIN DALE) 1pm Seats and Candidates update: Gray wins ballot of local members Noon ToryDiary update: Tax campaign video launches CLICK HERE TO READ IT. BLOGS ToryDiary: Tory report targets unre...
I must admit I feel I have detected a slight and positive change in Cameron's tone over the least few weeks. He did perform well today but
then he should do. I still remain unconvinced.
Tuesday 30th January 2006
EVENING UPDATES: £2M SUBSIDY WINS 2008 TORY CONFERENCE FOR BIRMINGHAM and LORD LEVY REARRESTED (BBC | IAIN DALE) 1pm Seats and Candidates update: Gray wins ballot of local members Noon ToryDiary update: Tax campaign video launches CLICK HERE TO READ IT. BLOGS ToryDiary: Tory report targets unre...
Cameron is being interviewed on talksport at 11.00 am today.
Tuesday 30th January 2006
EVENING UPDATES: £2M SUBSIDY WINS 2008 TORY CONFERENCE FOR BIRMINGHAM and LORD LEVY REARRESTED (BBC | IAIN DALE) 1pm Seats and Candidates update: Gray wins ballot of local members Noon ToryDiary update: Tax campaign video launches CLICK HERE TO READ IT. BLOGS ToryDiary: Tory report targets unre...
Notwithstanding the pro and anti grammar school argument (and I accept their decline has denied upward mobility to the less well off), I believe real detriment has been caused to the state educational system through indisicpline and for want of a better word "trendy" educational theories.
Thursday 25th January 2007
3:30pm Seats and Candidates update: David Cameron on the costs of being a candidate 1.30pm ToryDiary update: TIME magazine on Cameron - Britain's JFK? BLOGS ToryDiary: Key Conservative contributions to yesterday's Iraq debate LondonMayor: Aristeides' penultimate instalment POLITICS FOR PARTNERS ...
Simon
I think Heffer is correct about the Economist which in turn was wrong about the ERM. I used to get it for free and read it for work at mega bank but it became increasingly clear to me that its politics just like the FT's were moving wishy washy leftwards. Its all very well indulging your (I don't mean your's Simon) conscience by reading and going along with third way centrist views whilst waiting for your annual or quarterly bonus as my colleagues did but sometimes a little light has to be let in on realtiy.
PS
I think "bien pensant" was quite aposite. As might be "insulated" from the real world.
Wednesday 24th January 2007
4pm Seats and candidates update: New selection procedures 12:30pm ToryDiary update: Cameron compares the government to the stranded ship BLOGS ToryDiary: Tories silent in latest Catholic-Labour row Christine Constable on YourPlatform: English Democrats and the SNP forming common ground? Aris...
There are probably too many reasons (known and unknown to paraphrase a certain American) for the armed forces current condition.
Labour's historic pacifist and internationalist influences meant they never felt comfortable with the maintenance let alone the use of the armed forces. I think Blair's wars will in time be viewed as a bizarre aberration. The wars do not seem congruent with Labour's historic approach to foreign policy approach or even a traditional policy based on pure national self-interest. There are of course more specific factors at play. The Treasury under Gordon Brown have not been helpful. The MOD have not made a bad situation better, particularly with regard to procurement. Perhaps more importantly I do not think the armed forces resonate with our post modern electorate in the way they used to. Just look at the paucity of posts on this thread.
Defence spending is lowest since 1930
The Daily Telegraph leads with a Conservative analysis that defence expenditure is at its lowest level since the 1930s as a proportion of national wealth. Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey all spend more of their national wealth on their armed forces than Britain - and at a time when Britain faces ...
Ted
I registered that. I was commenting on the speeches Cameron does.
ICM: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues
The Conservative lead in the latest ICM/ Guardian poll is 6% (down slightly from 8% last month). Mike Smithson, over at PoliticalBetting, suggests that Ming's pursuit of the BAe/ Saudi affair and a couple of assured Commons performances might have contributed to the 5% increase in LibDem supp...
Ted
I am sorry. Maybe I don't do speeches or something like that although I have found others' both illuminating and stirring in the past. But I have to say I find Cameron's speeches limp and meaningless and suspect that is what they are meant to be.
ICM: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues
The Conservative lead in the latest ICM/ Guardian poll is 6% (down slightly from 8% last month). Mike Smithson, over at PoliticalBetting, suggests that Ming's pursuit of the BAe/ Saudi affair and a couple of assured Commons performances might have contributed to the 5% increase in LibDem supp...
Andy
He is accountable if people don't buy his owner's paper.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
Sorry, Labour Party should read Labour MPs.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
On the subject of Marx, does anyone have any idea how many members of the Labour Party or the cabinet are former Commies?
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
If Brown has read all of Marx's works it may explain his dour demeanour.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
The first time Cameron came to my attention must have been at least a year before the election. The BBC reported him as making a speech which was at the least critical of Thatcher.
ICM: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues
The Conservative lead in the latest ICM/ Guardian poll is 6% (down slightly from 8% last month). Mike Smithson, over at PoliticalBetting, suggests that Ming's pursuit of the BAe/ Saudi affair and a couple of assured Commons performances might have contributed to the 5% increase in LibDem supp...
Yes, I think it is fair to say it was the chat although the latter can often be balanced by the music which from memory for me, it did not do.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
Unrelated perhaps, but I found Mr Dacre's peformance on Desert Island Discs one of the least satisfying of any guest I have ever heard on that programme.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
The BBC is a major problem, in fact one of the greatest in terms of getting a right of centre message across to the electorate. However abolishing the BBC (or at least making it impartial) would only be a first step. The culturally marxist metropolitan pc weltanschaung is embedded throughout the establishment and the taxpayer funded strata of the economy. It could take a generation to change all that. The country needs someone of Sir Winston Churchill's or Lady Thatcher's calibre to even contemplate that task let alone start on it.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
Well done for a public figure like Mr Dacre pointing out what so many of us feel. The shame is it is unlikely to make any difference to the Beeb. Abolition is all they will understand.
Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview
"Today's Tories are obsessed by the BBC. They saw what its attack dogs did to Hague, Duncan Smith and Howard. Cameron's cuddly blend of eco-politics and work/life balance, his embrace of Polly Toynbee, a columnist who loathes everything Conservatism stands for, but is a totemic figure to the BB...
Scotty
Although I don't think you proved your point, I agree with your general sentiment that most of us want a good debate. I agree slagging your fellow debaters off is not a good idea generally and I was highlighting how quickly I think some do it. So I am with you a long way except that I do think the idea we should refrain from criticising individual politicians (if that is what you are suggesting) is a bit absurd. But thanks for your polite contribution (and Ted's).
ICM: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues
The Conservative lead in the latest ICM/ Guardian poll is 6% (down slightly from 8% last month). Mike Smithson, over at PoliticalBetting, suggests that Ming's pursuit of the BAe/ Saudi affair and a couple of assured Commons performances might have contributed to the 5% increase in LibDem supp...
There seems to be a far too frequent pattern to these threads. Disagreement by long standing conservative supporters with Cameron, his style, his policies (such as they are), his acolytes, or any of their shibboleths may first (if you are lucky) be countered by argument but far too often falls into name calling and if that does not work the pathetic cry of "please sir, I don't like that post" or even worse as has been the case a request for a thread to be removed. It is absolutely pathetic.
ICM: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues
The Conservative lead in the latest ICM/ Guardian poll is 6% (down slightly from 8% last month). Mike Smithson, over at PoliticalBetting, suggests that Ming's pursuit of the BAe/ Saudi affair and a couple of assured Commons performances might have contributed to the 5% increase in LibDem supp...
Deborah
Ditto.
Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Early evening ToryDiary update: Paul Dacre accuses the Tories of surrendering to the BBC's worldview 3pm ToryDiary update: 18 Doughty Street launches a new website and a whole new approach to political campaigning BLOGS ToryDiary: Tories have best policies for six out of nine key issues and Mi...
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