But George Osborne isn't a tax cutter? I can't think where you ever got the idea that he is. Faced with a deficit based purely on the size of government he and Cameron hiked VAT, hiked Capital Gains Tax, hiked fuel duty and ditched all of their tax related election promises be it the duty stabiliser or the inheritance tax cut. The party really needs to wake up and realise that the men in charge are social democrats. When we have Michael Gove saying Labour didn't redistribute income enough and calling for people to vote liberal democrat, when we have David Cameron saying that the only reason he would reverse the 50% rate would be if it meant the rich paying even more and when we have Francis Maude... well if we have Francis Maude in a government at all we know we have a problem! So yes, I wouldn't hold out your hopes... the lunatics are still running the asylum, spending will be HIGHER in real terms at the end of this parliament! Britain is drastically over-taxed and government is far too big... we need real change and these fools aren't going to deliver it!

The top three bills I would like to see debated are - European Union Referendum Bill - Legalisation of Drugs Bill - Death Penalty Referendum Bill I doubt they'll happen, Cameron will use his usual authoritarian style to block debates for all bills that don't fit into his social democratic liberal nonsense.

For all those willing to join in the hilarity and double standards of chris bryant I'm trying to trend #BryantTheDame on twitter!

Ah yes... Bryant fails to fit that requirement... maybe he's more suited to the damsel in distress? A role he plays ever so well in parliament!

I couldn't agree more. It's the use of legislation that sickens me so much. Freedom of Speech is essential to a free society, using the state to curtail it is disgraceful.

Well it's a hilarious comeback I must admit, George has done something right for once would you believe! The ironic thing is to suggest it's homophobic would be homophobic in and of itself because you'd be suggesting any comments about his femininity would be related to his sexuality which is surely a bad connection? By the way I say that not as one of the "PC Police" but rather to point out the nonsense of political correctness. Repeal anti-discrimination laws I say! We need people to have freedom of speech and association. Those of us who are gay (Peter Tatchell excluded of course) actually think our ability or lack of ability should be what decides our place in the world. Not the patronising efforts of the nanny state to "protect us" from "nasty people".

Any sort of "opt-in" system is an infringement on an individuals liberties. Any sort of opt-in system would involve going on a list and why on earth does the government have a right to know who or who does not view what on the internet. Regardless of your moral view on said content the government has no right to censor it in anyway, including by making you "sign up" to recieve it. The government needs to stay out of people's homes.

Ok let's look at these "innovations" shall we... Corporation Tax has been cut but with an increased bank levy and the abolition of allowances for many businesses this hasn't meant a tax cut at all. It has not been paid for by lower spending like it should have been. The jobs tax has not been axed, only part of the increase has been stopped so this is just a bare faced lie. Police targets smashed.... please! Every force around the country is using the cuts as an excuse to cut officer numbers rather than office staff, getting rid of a single form (the stop and search) is hardly cutting targets. In fact the home office has increased regulations!!! The third runway... yes it's been stopped. I'll give you that one. But the reason it has been stopped, a load of left wing communist climate change nonsense, is not the proper reason, property rights and the like. Home Information Packs dropped, ok yes this is a good thing so we've got two kept so far. Fat Cat Salaries... what are we? This is the kind of rubbish Labour used to come out with in the 80s. Making people hate those with high salaries is left wing class war at it's worst. With regards to the public sector we haven't actually done anything about them salaries we've just got people angry about them... congratulations! ID Cards abolished, ok this is a positive unfortunately lost of money has been wasted on them but we can't blame Dave for that. The NHS protected... this may have been kept but it is an AWFUL promise! We should never have agreed to protect socialist NHS funding. Cameron has shown his true red colours with this promise. Quangos closing down, yes a few are but nowhere near enough. Minister's pay coming down, in all honesty I never thought Ministers were over paid but maybe that is just me? A bank levy coming up... higher taxes? How very conservative... I don't think. A cancer drugs fund coming up... more socialist nonsense and the fund is a non-starter anyway as has been covered before. £6bn saved this year... congratulations you cut the budget by 1% do you want a pat on the back? Now for the one that really gets me angry. An EU Referendum lock are you kidding me!?!?!?! We have transferred more powers to the EU since gaining office and repatriated none. The lock means absolutely nothing because the Executive can always deem a power not worthy of a referendum. The worst kind of lying from the snake we have as PM. If you want to read more about more lost powers Douglas Carswell has summed it up rather well here http://www.talkcarswell.com/show.aspx?id=1705 . Two hundred new academies...? I fail to see how this is even an achievement. It's the schools who deserve credit for signing up, the government has done nothing here. I'm sorry but I've never been sold on Gove's plan, ever since he backtracked on voucher-isation I've thought he was all smoke and mirrors. Ten thousand university places and fifty thousand apprenticeships... LESS people need to go to university as anyone who has seen colleagues studying a non-degree with only one passed A Level can attest to. As for apprenticeships, again it is not the governments job to create jobs. That is the job of the private sector, whatever happened to conservatism? The earnings link being restored, I don't know where I stand on this. I think the state pension is socialist nonsense but we have a commitment to seniors now that we can't break. I would approve re-evaulating the system for new entrants over the next ten years. However I doubt we will see this happen. Employees tax has been reduced... perhaps but the increase in national insurance, vat and capital gains kind of cancels that out don't you think? Doubling the operational allowance is good in principle there's no doubt. However, a real plus to our armed forces would be to stop wasting their lives in this appalling liberal interventionist war we are locked in. Afghanistan is a broken nation, forever broken, when will we realise that? So yes in summary I point out four key things David Cameron promised... - Less Regulation - Lower Taxes - Powers Repatriated from The EU - Stricter Law & Order David Cameron has delivered... - Higher Regulation http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6541323/who-are-the-governments-regulation-busters.thtml - Higher Taxes (VAT, Capital Gains) - More Powers Transferred to The EU http://www.talkcarswell.com/show.aspx?id=1705 - Ken Clarke's Liberal Justice Experiment and Votes for Prisoners http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2010/12/philip-davies-mp-ken-clarkes-misguided-approach-on-sentencing-risks-making-thousands-more-people-vic.html David Cameron is not a conservative Prime Minister he is just a power grabber much like Tony Blair. I feel betrayed and disappointed as a loyal Tory activist and former candidate.

Shame the things she was accused of supporting turned out not to be true she might have been a decent candidate then. Sure start is a joke, winter fuel payments are welfare nonsense, the minimum wage is economic madness as well as authoritarian government at its worst and the fox hunting ban is an example of government getting involved in places it shouldn't. So yes, shame Labour lied like they always do (and believe me we do on the ground too, it's called politics I'm afraid and this candidate should grow up) but even more a shame that this candidate didn't support anything someone supportive of limited government would support... whatever happened to the Conservative party... thank god for people like the TPA!

Without a doubt Roger Helmer is correct again. Europe is only low down on people's priorities because people have been convinced that it somehow is an "alien" issue. They don't realise how intrinsic it is to so many of our problems such as - Excessive Regulation - Erosion of Personal Liberty - Flouting of Democracy - Excessive Spending - Uncontrolled Borders - Human Rights Scandals - The Man-Made Global Warming Myth Until people realise how much the EU is dragging us down they won't attach enough importance to us leaving it! It is an area where I will always be utterly opposed to the direction of not only the coalition, but the modern day conservative party.

Well I do indeed vehemently despise the New Statesman, it has to be (alongside the guardian) the epitome of communist leaning propaganda parading under the banner of "respected left of centre journalism". However, I must admit Miss Bagshawe's explanation is unfortunate, I am a fervent supporter of the Tea Party and indeed Sarah Palin in the United States (though I disagree with their interventionist foreign policy views). As for Christine O'Donnell she has merely been the victim of a witch hunt, both by the liberal media and the centrist Republican establishment. She may have some controversial views on certain social issues but she has been perfectly clear they are a personal matter and her voting would be based on the constitution not personal preference. So yes, more appalling faux-journalism by The New Statesman but it is a shame there aren't more Tea Party Tories. I shall have to make do with Hannan, Dorries and Carswell for now I suppose.

Why is that you and other politicians always talk about increasing public spending as though it were some sort of achievement? "Doubling investment in the NHS" for instance. What is an achievement about doubling the amount of money you take from the tax payer regardless of results? Have you forgotten who's money this is?

Believe me I know what you mean, I do not believe in the Union for starters. However, I believe in terms of the current government I approve at least of the direction it is taking the country to, that is towards a smaller state. I can never find a party that will espouse what I wish so I must find a broad church in which people like Douglas Carswell, Daniel Hannan and myself have a place.

Your story is nice, I am happy that your friend benefited from the invasion of his country, it is always good to hear the story of someone enfranchised. However, you say that his liberty to vote was worth the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused not by suicide bombers but rather the acts of the allied forces, not through the personal fault of the soldiers but the inevitable causalities of such a conflict. You believe that the greater good is worth the oppression, or in this case death of, the minority. That is Utilitarianism, it's a perfectly legitimate philosophy, it is one that I find objectionable however. I won't resort to childish and personal attacks like you I will simply respect your right to disagree.

All the more highlighting why the term "The Right" is so diverse. I expect we could find areas of agreement though Steve, maintenance of Law and Order for instance!

I think the term "Right Winger" is better described by its prefix in most cases. Take for instance someone who is on the Social Right, this will indicate clear support for traditional social institutions and practices backed up by the state (this will not of course encompass an individuals whole ideology but rather describe a portion). Then there are those who are on the Nationalist Right, these would be those who believe the state should make an effort preserve cultural normality such as through very strict immigration controls. Personally I would describe myself as an individual on the Libertarian Right, my ideology is always based on giving maximum freedom to the individual and limiting the power of the state. I support measures such as spending cuts, local devolution and direct democracy among other things. I also advocate a unilateralist foreign policy and reject bodies such as the EU and UN as undemocratic bodies that interfere with our democracy and conflicts such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The "Right Wing" is, as are so many other things, a term that can be added to others to elaborate upon their meaning. My best attempt at definition would be that it is an indication of a radical within a particular movement (some may say extremist). There will always be conflict among various forms of "Right Wingers" and those who oppose those people will often use the term as an insult. If there's one thing that is true about the right though it is that we are steadfast and unbending in our views, regardless of what they are on, our ideologies are important and not cast aside for managerial reasons. So I personally take all the insults I am given by those on the left, centre and others on the right, because I am proud of my beliefs and that shall not change.

Yet Steve Hilton not only still has a job but is actually the new Allistair Campbell... one thing Cameron is undoubtedly a moron about it choosing his staff!

Yet more reasons why the BBC should be privatised. Let's face it, it fulfils none of its purpose as a "public service" broadcaster due to its left wing bias and appallingly bad programming such as "The One Show". Why on earth it could afford to pay for a show so deeply pathetic and yet is cutting funding to it's (actually marketable) impressive drama portfolio is further example of it's appalling mismanagement. It is no longer providing a public service and thus the public should no longer be expected to be forced to pay for it!

I'm a Libertarian so I don't approve of Obama's healthcare agenda however I do see this advert as totally tasteless and deeply offensive. Obama may be a socialist, yes I don't like socialism, in fact I find it morally wrong BUT I wouldn't dream of calling it an equivalent of Nazism or slavery for that manner. The Tea Party movement in the USA has some real strong people in it with good principled views, people like Ron Paul for instance but like every political movement it has its nutjobs as well. This guy has just put himself across as an absolute moron and I am glad he is nowhere near his primary opponent in polling. Small government is a good aim, but this is amateurish, offensive and moronic.

Not really a surprise from the eco-authoritarian quasi-communist Green Party with Lucas and her ilk!

In all honesty my opinions on the coalition changed recently. I am firmly on the economic right, I cannot see that ever changing, I am a Libertarian when it comes to economics and social issues. So I began to look at what this coalition will achieve. Let's think about it, the state is going to shrink drastically as a proportion of GDP, to a level far below Lady Thatcher ever achieved. That is an excellent achievement for anyone who wants a smaller state. We are also making excellent progress of civil liberties. So, do I like some policies no. Do I approve for instance of the position on the European Union, no I do not because I am firmly of the belief we would be better off out. But the deficit is priority and so is shrinking the state. Seen as this coalition looks set to achieve that it will have my critical support.

You have a very strange notion of liberty to say the least. A protector of liberty would not grow the state by such an enormous amount for starters but would instead place faith in the individual so as to cultivate individual liberty. To suggest Tony Blair was a "friend of liberty" is to suggest that he was in some form a Libertarian which is a joke to say the least. However, I realise the main crux of your argument is his foreign policy so I shall address that mainly. You argue that the protection of liberty requires an interventionist foreign policy, you use the term "Liberal Internationalism" which is often used as is "Neoconservatism" but both are embedded in a tradition of interventionism. You argument is based upon a premise of Utilitarianism, in other words that the loss of liberty for the few (those who were killed as a result of allied forces in the conflicts) is worth the liberty of the many (the seemingly better state the areas were left in afterwards). I could not disagree with this premise more. Utilitarianism is an authoritarian philosophy which believes that the minority can be ignored and oppressed to protect the majority. Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq was purely based upon this, he gave no thought to the deaths of the countless Iraqis who were killed purely as a result of his actions and he gave no thought to the lives lost of allied forces. The only thing he cared about was the end result, if you call this a "Pro-Liberty" position I really do not understand how you can defend such a concept. There are many opinions on the conflict which are purely conjecture be they that the Blair/Bush alliance were on a quest for glory or to protect economic interests but they really do not concern me. What concerns me is the question of the Philosophy and Ideology rooted in the conflict. So as much as I respect your view, as a principled Libertarian or a "friend of liberty" as you put it I cannot come up with a better example of authoritarianism dressed up as liberalism than Tony Blair. He may well have believed that the outcome was a good thing, he may have had all the best intentions in the world to free the Iraqi people I truly do not know the mind of the man. However, he ignored the lives and liberty of thousands in a quest for his final goal and nothing could be less in favour of Liberty in my view.

I am torn in this election for two simple reasons. On the one hand the PiS winning would be beneficial to Britain more as there would be another Eurosceptic world leader. However on the other hand I find Civic Platform are far closer to my views on pretty much everything except for European matters and so I find myself supporting them more I feel. The PiS are utterly opposed to the free market and always form coalitions with the left in Poland therefore I never understood the alliance. So there we are I am torn as a Libertarian. I want to support the free market but also the freedom of a nation to determine the future it wants for itself.... It is a shame Poland does not have a party representing both of these ideals....

Unlawful killing of innocent people who proved no threat is murder as far as I am concerned and for that there can be no excuse. I wish we did have an equally abject apology from the IRA I assure you, Libertarian's don't tend to condone violence you know regardless of the situation. I also agree on your latter point Britain apologises for far too much, many of it ridiculous rubbish. I do not believe in being an apologiser for history in general. However, events like this require such words because they are just that awful.

It is good to see that the truth has finally been declared, all of the victims were innocent of what can only be described as a brutal murder by the British Army. No amount of historical context can justify what happened as rightly declared. Hopefully now a line can finally be drawn under this.