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Tim is to be commended for his relentless poursuit of this issue.
Personally I stopped listening to the Today programme in the 1980s. Listening to that sheer poison eternally every morning would have killed me long ago. The BBC could never be punished enough for its crimes in the 80s and 90s and personally I favour burning in down and scattering salt on its ruins.
Meanwhile, anyone who takes it on at any level should be supported to the hilt.
The media has a responsibility to properly interrogate people who accuse others of racism and anti-Semitism
If you haven't heard John Humphrys' interview with Edward McMillan-Scott MEP from this morning's Today programme (and don't suffer from high blood pressure) you can listen to it again here. ConHome broke the story yesterday afternoon that Mr McMillan-Scott had been expelled from the Conservati...
I used to like Douglas Carswell. Admire him too, as I do the other components of the Holy Trinity Hannan/Carswell/Reckless. However, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that as well as looking mad these days, he actually is mad. First his solomonic judgement imposed Speaker Bercow on us, an all time parlimanetary low. Now Irish PR. I hear the flapping of white coats.
David Cameron countenanced PR for Welsh local elections
The Conservative leader was reportedly willing to agree to proportional representation as part of a draft coalition agreement that Welsh Conservatives were seeking to thrash out in the aftermath of the last Cardiff Assembly elections. The Guardian's Andrew Sparrow quotes Vernon Bogdanor's recor...
It would help Bercow's cause if he did anything right. But he has no sense of right or wrong, as is proved by the fact he stood for the Speakership in the first place: soemone in mid career had no business standing; someone with no cross-party support had no business standing; and someone whose candidature was a weapon of the executive against the Opposition had not business standing.
The Ratboy apologists can wail all they want. He's the most unpopular man in Parliament and he ain't gonna be there long, however much taxpayers money he wastes on advisers.
John Bercow recruits £87,000 "chum" to be special adviser
The BBC revealed yesterday that John Bercow has recruited former Times commentator Tim Hames as his special adviser and spokesman. Mr Hames - who wrote an excellent Times column - will be paid at least £87,000. The appointment has raised eyebrows because, says The Telegraph, "the House of Commo...
We should mandate Thursday night counting by statute - a small amendment would do it.
And as for postal votes, the vast third-world type corruption that has been enabled under Labour's current hyper-lax postal voting regime regime needs to be swept away wholesale. If a short copntemplative trip to the polling booth is really too much for you, tough cheese, you don't deserve your vote. Postal votes should be for the Forces, the infirm and overseas residents only.
Save General Election Night!
Yesterday's Sunday Times pre-empted this post and its accompanying Facebook campaign I was intending to start later in the week, but since the blogosphere has started discussing the issue, here goes: future General Election nights are under threat as an increasing number of councils are planni...
A regrettable intervention by Mr Isaby, who sadly on all Ratboy issues is His Master's Voice. There was nothing fair and square about Bercow's election. The Speaker is supposed to have bi-partisan support and Bercow was the precise reverse - a Labour prank on the Tories.
Those Tories backing Nigel Farage in Buckingham are being drawn into a stunt orchestrated by our political opponents
Having been off duty as the story broke and developed during Thursday and Friday, I am only now getting round to commenting on the decision by Nigel Farage MEP to challenge the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, at the next general election. As Tim predicted would be the case in his first post on th...
This social fascism makes my blood freeze. Once we become an Edwina Curry style party of nagging and lecturing again we are finished.
David Cameron promises to look at availability of "very cheap drink"
Joining police officers in Hull yesterday to learn more about drink-fuelled crime, the Tory leader promised "serious changes" to Britain's licensing laws and made this statement according to the BBC and the Pontefract and Castleford Express: "We need to look at the unbelievable availability of v...
I used to live in Camden. How well I remember the year that a bank rang the Council up and said "Where's our loan? You've got to repay it today."
"Er, which loan is that?"
"The £25,000,000 one."
"Ooh, er, we seem to have left that out of this year's budget. Oh never mind, we'll just give you the housing budget instead".
God bless the People's Party. As thick as Das Kapital.
How Conservatives in Camden are improving local services for Alastair Campbell
Cllr Andrew Marshall, the leader of the Conservative Group on Camden Council and the Council's Executive Portfolio for Community Development and Planning, hopes to progress from coalition with the Lib Dems to full power next year. Camden’s an exciting and highly contested place: journalists an...
This is a free market issue. Noone has any business imposing their own subjective morality on the market.
If these young women were denied the decent living many of them earn from dancing they may be forced to take even more extreme steps for their money by becoming prostitutes. Hence those who seek to impose their own subjective morality on the rest of us in an authoritarian manner force, from their point of view, the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
This is similar to the way the Vatican hates abortion but also prohibits contraception, thus ensuring the highest possible level of abortions.
Moral authoritarians should be looking at these club and saying "Great! A way pretty but thick young girls can make similarly huge sume of money without actually prostituting themselves. Fantastic!"
Tory frontbench peer suggests that describing lap-dancers as "sex encounter workers" is "prejudicial, dangerous and stigmatising"
My attention is drawn by this piece in today's Daily Telegraph to a debate during the committee stage of the Policing and Crime Bill in the House of Lords shortly before the summer recess. Viscount Bridgeman, the Conservative home affairs spokesman, proposed that lap dancers not be branded "se...
These people are pathetic attention seekers. Bell always was, it's embarassing to see that Waite has descended to his level and as for Rantzen she's made a career out of it.
Martin Bell and Terry Waite forge alliance to target Alan Duncan and MPs with a "dodgy record" on expenses
Terry Waite has already said he is considering standing against Bury St Edmunds' Conservative MP David Ruffley as an Independent. Now today's Mail on Sunday reveals that the former hostage has teamed up with Martin Bell in an effort to target Alan Duncan - the MP for Rutland and Melton and Sha...
Because this is politics, you idiot, and there are millions of parents whose kids who have sat these exams in the last few years, plus everone who sits a A level is by definition 18 and a voter.
We have the best education team in living memory and it can be trusted to deliver what is needed. They should bee be supported in doing what is necessary in the way they chose to do it. Not second guesssed by armchair educationalists who sound off without a strategic thought in their heads.
Michael Gove explains why he believes it is unfair for school pupils to be told that A-Levels in Further Maths and Dance are of equal value
Shane Frith is right. Nick is talking economically illiterate bilge. It makes me embarassed he's a Conservative.
Mystical mediaevalists who reject the latest 250 years of economic progress should spare us their deranged cant. They should get off their C21st western capitalist computers powered by C20th western capitalist electricity and scamper off to their allotments where they belong. Happy digging, trogs!
Nick Herbert exposes how we have become more dependent on food imports under Labour
After some forensic research of the relevant statistics, Shadow Defra Seretary Nick Herbert has discovered and exposed how the country has become more dependent under Labour on foreign imports of food we could have produced ourselves. He has revealed how tens of thousands of hectares of land wh...
I think this has been a worthwhile experiment but the result is a bit of a disaster.
Dr Wollaston appears to be unpolitical. Indeed it is not clear how committed to our Pary and values she is.
In my view, the final choice in every constituency should be between committed ideological Conservatives. We don't spend our lives working for the Party, only for it to select 'good eggs' who can't tell their MV=PT from their Macauley.
Perhaps in future the selection could be restricted to those with a record of Party work. Or the electorate could be limited to Conservative members and pledges.
Dr Sarah Wollaston selected after 25% turnout in Totnes Open Primary
The turnout in the all-postal Open Primary to select a new Conservative candidate in Totnes is 25% according to sources at the count. This is way in excess of the 15% which Eric Pickles told me anything above which would be "quite a triumph". "I'm tickled to death by the turnout," said the party...
I couldn't disgaree with Sally Roberts more. Rantzen is a wretched and shallow attention-seeker who would taint our party be association. The last thing we need is another Bercow. Beware!
Luton South's Conservative candidate says voting for Esther Rantzen would risk letting Labour back in through the back door
Esther Rantzen has confirmed she will be running for Parliament in Luton South at the next election, despite the fact that sitting Labour MP Margaret Moran - who came under fire for her use of housing allowances to fund repairs to a home in Southampton - will not be contesting the next electio...
Tories of good will can have different opinions on the tactics of feeding taxpayers money to the minority grievance industry. However, with the coming public austerity needed to get the public finances back in order, none of it is high enough up the priority spending list to survive. It must all be swept away as we pare the cost of local government down to the bare bones. Those of us who will be paying higher taxes and sacrificing cars, holidays and the kids' schools will not be willing to do so if the proceeds are wasted on this sort of nonsense.
Livingstone's pernicious "equality" agenda is still in place at City Hall
I have great admiration for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on every level - personal, political, journalistic, cultural, aesthetic. I also tend to look at the glass as half full rather than half empty in terms of his achievements - after just one year they have been impressive. However, one...
On point 4, it's difficult being committed to British sport when we don't have a team in any sports that anyone cares about. Sure, there are British teams at the Minority Sports Olympics coming here in 2012 but frankly who cares? Where are the British Football and Rugby teams?
Shoestring manifesto (1): Let us transform appreciation of Britain and its history
It is increasingly obvious that the next Conservative government will have to make drastic cuts in public spending. Rebalancing the books will be the task of David Cameron's hoped for premiership. It may be that this exercise of national salvation will be enough to ensure re-election but it wi...
An outstanding and inspired appointment.
Good innings by Chopper who is a beacon of ideological rigour on the green benches.
Don Porter appointed as successor to Chris Chope MP as chairman of Conservative Way Forward
After seven years as honorary chairman of Conservative Way Forward, Chris Chope MP has stepped down and the Thatcherite organisation's Executive Committee has appointed as his successor Don Porter, who recently stood down as chairman of the National Conservative Convention. The appointment was...
Tim would be right, if only aid did any good. However, as has was proved in the 60s and 70s by Lord Bauer and agin this year by Dambisa Moyo, counter-intuitively long term economic aid (as opposed to defence aid or short term humanitarian aid) actually harms the recicipent societies.
Aid is an anti-third-world-weapon that has corrupted their governments, denied their peoples self-respect and therefore fostered a grievance culture, further increasing dependency in a relentless downward spiral.
Western governments, 3rd world governments and especially NGOs have to break out of the neo-colonialist mentality. It is the countries such as Ghana which have begun to wean themselves off demenaing aid and begun to float bonds on the market which are making most progress.
Cameron on protesting in Parliament Square, defence spending, the long summer recess, debates between the party leaders and Andy Coulson
David Cameron has said that "enough is enough" when it comes to the protest in Parliament Square by anti-war protestors, including Brian Haw. I'm all in favour of free speech and the right to protest, the Tory leader said, but when our Parliament Square looks like a "shanty town" something ne...
Well said. The man has always been an oily nonentity. Let's kick him into outer space.
Edward McMillan-Scott MEP must be expelled from the Conservative Party
48 hours ago I Tweeted that Edward McMillan-Scott MEP had been expelled from the Conservative Party. I was misinformed and misinformed readers in the process. All that has happened so far is that he has had the whip withdrawn. EMS has been a good champion of human rights issues but his recent ...
Let's not forget that however affable Clarke is, he has consistently put his obsession with transferring further power from Britain to the EU ahead of everything - ahead of his Party and ahead of his own career - not to say by definition ahead of his country.
He would have been a calamitous party leader because split parties do not win elections. To impose his will the wets would move against the Right by branding us 'extreme' and by using the party machine to hunt us down, as Heath did. There would have been running civil war - utter catastrophe.
Clarke on mobile phones, jogging and Ted Heath
Ken Clarke repeats his belief that higher taxation on business should be avoided in a recession. The Shadow Business Secretary tells the FT: "I do think if you’re looking for tax increases in a recession, it’s obvious that you don’t look in the first place to business." Watch the FT video in...
The Telegraph has been a rubbish paper for decades. Even when it was still conservative, it was small c conservatism of a particularly fuddy, yawn-inducing type. It was never interested in politics per se, the the way that the Guardian is. And the convervatism never spread further than the op ed columns. The rest of the paper was a no-go zone for Tories, so no hope of a Tory take on the arts for example or in features. What has happened to it now is the logical end point of the jouney it has been taking since the 80s.
However, I share its scepticism about the newsworthiness of conservativeintelligence.com stories. These are shot through with a repellent self-importance born of the supposed inevitability of Conservative victory at the next election.
It is particularly ironic, given how sceptical and unhelpful Con Home has been to the Cameron project, that it should now seek to make money from Cameron's incipient success.
The smug West-wing diagrams and charts with everyone's name in their places is simply a more sophisticated version of Derek Draper's "there are x people in this government who matter and to say I know them all would be the understatement of the century". I sincerely hope that the money-making will not extend further than this conference to some ghastly public affairs consultancy which will tarnish the Tories by association once they are elected.
The last thing we will need is for Tim Montgomerie/Stephen Shakespeare to play Ian Greer/Derek Draper to Cameron's John Major/Tony Blair.
Whatever happened to The Telegraph's coverage of the Conservatives?
Guido has blogged that The Telegraph is losing £200,000 a week. Ouch. A little while ago I paid tribute to The Telegraph for its expenses-gate coverage. Although the newspaper sometimes failed to make adequate distinction between different examples of abuse I stand by my view that it was - o...
You're wrong CZ. It's unwanted pregnancy that is a problem, not sex per se. Sex is natural and ineradicable.
How exactly would you stop people having it off anyway? You'd have to create the mother of all socialist states to have that amount of social control.
Sex Education destroying childhood
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says Sex and Relationships Education offers too much too soon - schools should focus on teaching children to read. "As a 14 year-old girl, I have had to attend four talks in the past nine months from a woman from a family planning clinic. I have b...
There's no argument that sex education can be given too early. Much before 12 strikes me as perverse. Also there is little argument that many leftists/Council employees do seek to undermine the fabric of society by disintegrating families. The latest Sheffield Council leaflet recommending "An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away" to teenagers is a part of that.
However, there is a visceral and untempered tone to Cllr Seaton's comments that is repulsive. From reading his invective, you get the impression that he wouldn't approve of "An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away" for adults either - for whom it is broadly true.
No sex should not be foisted on young children. Yes, children of 16 and over should be enabled to have sex without conceptual consequences, if they choose to do that. Yes, recreational sex before marriage is on whole, good, natural and in any case ineradicable.
Sex Education destroying childhood
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says Sex and Relationships Education offers too much too soon - schools should focus on teaching children to read. "As a 14 year-old girl, I have had to attend four talks in the past nine months from a woman from a family planning clinic. I have b...
Pitt the Younger yes, but let's not forget Pitt the Elder, victor of the 7 Years War, founder of British greatness and our national leader during the immortal Year of Victories 1759, 250 years ago this year.
Which figures in British history do you think every patriot should know about?
Yesterday, David Cameron responded to Tim’s open letter calling for patriotism to play a big part in the Conservative manifesto. An aspect of Tim’s suggestions was to improve young peoples’ shockingly poor knowledge of British history because it is difficult to love a country you know nothing ...
"Utterly deluded", "ludicrous" "rather dubious" "petty bunch" "vast majority" - all choice Bercowese.
We're honoured by your presence among us, Mr Speaker.
Now please give us these cheap headline-grabbing jacobin stunts, dress properly for your job and concentrate on that part of your platform which will improve the Commons' ability to hold the Executive to account.
John Bercow warns frontbenchers against leaking his private discussions with them
Last week Simon Burns MP raised a point of order expressing concern that John Bercow's announcement about holding elections for the Deputy Speakers had appeared in the media before the Speaker had made the statement to the House. Speaker Bercow has just made a stern statement to the Commons in...
Hmmm. Another effusion of the Speaker's House spin machine courtesy of one of the Editors of this blog.
Jonathan was among the only half-a-dozen people in the whole Conservative Party to support the Bercow Speakership bid. It was mystifying to his many friends and admirers why he would allow his "friendship" with Bercow to overcome the settled and universal feeling of the Party.
Many of Bercow's previous 'friends' know how one-sided are Bercow's acquaintances and how disposable he regards them. But more importantly, many of us have friendships and even marriages with people on the other side of the political fence. That includes Members of the House. But we do not let it affect our political judgement of what is best for Britain.
In this case, we were assured by the bercowistas that whatever one's view of Bercow's past/ethics/loyalty/hatred of the Party/creeping socialism/social creepism/sucking up to Brown/serial betrayals/houdiniesque principles etc, he would be technically a good Speaker becauase he loved the Commons. We were told he was "a House of Commons man to his fingertips" - much like Bercow's great role model J. Enoch Powell.
However, within 2 weeks we have had the abolition of the Speakers' traditional garb; and the proposed abolitions of the Speaker's ancient procession and the tradition of Members referring to each other in the Chamber by their constituency appelation and the style 'Honourable'.
It takes some chuptzpah to characterise this maniacal jacobinism as loving the Commons. Given his ongoing vandalism of hundreds of years of Commons practice some might ask, in what substantive sense were these reassurances of Bercow's love for the Commons valid?
I cannot pretend I ever wasted a minisecond's credence on the 'Commons' man' ploy. However, I do think that now it is being so thoroughly repudiated it puts those few Tories who retailed it (in good faith) in a tendentious position. Were they misled, or were they attempting to mislead us?
John Bercow warns frontbenchers against leaking his private discussions with them
Last week Simon Burns MP raised a point of order expressing concern that John Bercow's announcement about holding elections for the Deputy Speakers had appeared in the media before the Speaker had made the statement to the House. Speaker Bercow has just made a stern statement to the Commons in...
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