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A referendum on Lisbon after complete ratification will achieve no more than sending a signal to the EU.
What we have now is a novel form of corruption whereby a government initially headed by Blair refuses to keep its promise to ask the opinion of the British people, resulting in the presidency of Europe being given to Blair.
Lorraine Mullally: David Cameron should promise a referendum on reforming the EU
Lorraine Mullally is Director of Open Europe. Less than two weeks before the second Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, opponents of the text still have some cause for optimism – such as the return of Declan Ganley to the disparate Irish ‘no’ campaign, or the new Europe Says No initiative...
A very frustrating account of the demise of British farming. What can we do? What CAP rules can we break? What would be the penalties? Could we ignore them - like others in the EU?
Nigel Evans MP: What can we do to breathe new life into farming?
By Nigel Evans MP Today I met with several farmers from the Ribble Valley who expertly updated me on the state of farming in our area… and it is pretty tough. It’s bad enough trying to make ends meet with the job itself, but then the dead hand of Brussels and London interfere to make it worse....
Tim's decision to hold this vote was mischevious and not conducive to the best interests of the Conservative Party (AGAIN).
The poll was entirely self-selecting but the lazy and incompetent MSM will take it to reflect the actual attitude of the Membership.
Every vote lost to the Conservatives is a vote for more Labour government, a certain entrenchment of Lisbon Treaty articles and no opportunity to take back powers from the EU.
Cameron has already promised a referendum if it is not ratified if he forms a government. There is no way that the vast majority of the people of Britain want to leave the EU but they do want its power reduced and they do want to prevent it from becoming a super-state.This can only be achieved by working from the inside.
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...
BUT DD removed himself from the front bench....
David Davis is just one of the big beasts needed on the Tory frontbench
Whether it is civil liberties, grammar schools, upgrading Trident or Afghanistan, David Davis continues be a major contributor to the national debate. He tackles another subject today in an article for the Mail on Sunday. Analysing the average income for graduates he concludes that many studen...
"John Prescott uses Twitter......." He is a twat and probably the most incompetent minister in living memory.
Thursday 20th August 2009
7.15pm Alex Deane on CentreRight: A good attack on nanny statism 6pm ToryDiary: David Cameron's twelve reasons why the NHS budget must continue to grow in real terms 6pm WATCH: David Cameron tells Bolton audience that the Tories are now the party of the NHS 5.15pm Local government update: Statem...
With luck the Guardian will be dead in two years.
Guardian and Independent ignore Kaminski's rebuttal of smears against him
Over recent weeks The Guardian and Independent have featured a number of horrible attacks on the reputation of Michal Kaminski. Yesterday Mr Kaminski responded forcefully to the charges against him - as did William Hague. I passed the rebuttals to both newspapers. Have either of those two newspa...
Denis McShane frothing at the mouth again about the Conservative partners in the EU Parliament ...some politically connected Americans are apparently sayimg they don't like our partners.I won't try to make a case for some of our partners, they can defend themselves. The Americans need to be told we will do what is in our interest.When the chips are down it's the Brits who come forward with blood and treasure.
McShane belongs to a party which has dozens of ex-Communists in today's British Parliament. They were praising the Soviet system while millions were being sent to the gulags.
Monday 3rd August 2009
10pm Iain Murray on CentreRight wants to know why the Met Office is keeping temperature records secret 9.15pm Melancthon on CentreRight: "I understand the desire to end suffering. But if the tool we use to try to end that suffering – creating a right to suicide and destroying the civic duty to...
Tim, why do you invite this tw*t Ridley Grove to write on ConHome?
Will Britain's contribution to the EU be reduced?
No. I'm told that Britain's contribution to the European Union will also be protected from the axe - not by choice but by necessity. Renegotiating our contribution will either be too time consuming or impossible. Either way it cannot be cut quickly. Britain pays about £12 billion to the EU eve...
Who is Ridley Grove? Is he a tw*t?
Wednesday 29th July 2009
11pm Matt Sinclair on CentreRight: The rise of anti-Semitism 7pm ToryDiary update: Conservatives welcome Government review of Armed Forces Compensation Scheme 5.15pm WATCH: Lord Mandelson explains why he would favour a TV debate between the party leaders at the general election 4.15pm CentreRi...
Who is Mikey? A ukip-homeless person? He should get his facts right first!
A depressing list
On ToryDiary 'Mikey' has left this comment that I thought deserved wider attention. "Although I hate Heffer's style here's why I fear he might be right: CAMERON'S TRACK RECORD 1, Accepting the climate change consensus. 2, Opposing grammar schools. 3, Accepting 50p tax. 4, Declining to say h...
If you want to know what Conservative policies are in outline go to the "Policy" page on their web site.The summary has been there for months.
Labour 15 and 17 points adrift of the Tories in two new polls
Two polls out this evening: A new ComRes poll to be published in tomorrow's Independent on Sunday shows the Conservatives going into the summer recess fifteen points ahead of Labour - although two points shy of the 40% mark. The numbers in tomorrow's paper are: Comparisons are with the most re...
EMS has previously been a Euro VP. What are the perks of that job? Was EMS unhappy really because the group did not put his name forward? Since, given his age and long service, it may be his last 5 years in the parliament, perhaps he thought he would like to "trough" it for the final run.
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 ...
Are the editors still secretly drinking with Damien McBride?
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...
Dazed (18.06) you are confused because you trust info from the Liebour Party. Not all of these would be quangos - they would be offices in govt deptartments. Big savings will occur when the big ones get abolished.
The question I wanted to ask David Cameron on quangos today . . .
I was most grateful for Reform's invitation to hear David Cameron talk on quangos today. They have done and continue to do terrific work on how to reform the Public Sector. As a small think tank on a micro budget (and yet the No. 2 google search ranking on quangos behind wikipedia thanks to our ...
Is ToryBlog written by "Chad"? - I mean the guy who started out with ukip and has had so many disagreements with every group that he joins/starts that he always ends up as a one-man party? If so, explains everything about his comments.
Shadow Cabinet to give up all outside interests by the end of December
Speaking at his monthly press conference, David Cameron has announced that the Shadow Cabinet will relinquish all outside interests by the end of Decemebr. He said that outside interests "can be a good thing" for MPs, and cited examples of the former doctor who wants to update their qualificat...
RS @ 21.54 - the ability of MPs to scrutinise legislation is usually limited by this governments "programming" and time-tabling.This Liebour govt does not appreciate scrutiny.
Do you really want your MPs to work for you as a job?
Very shortly now, we shall be told in detail all the “second jobs” MPs do, how much they earn, and how many hours a week they spend on them. Harriet Harman wants to go further and ban “second jobs”. Gordon Brown suggests a set of minimum requirements for MPs in how they respond to constituent ...
Yes and DT journalist Andrew Porter is a drinking companion of Damien McBride. Time to cancel subscriptions to the Lieborgraph I think.
The Telegraph and Labour
Those who think The Telegraph can get too close to the Labour Party will be interested in this news recorded by PoliticsHome:
Don't worry - the SNP have no mandate in Hampshire!
Conservatives advance in all parts of UK... except Scotland
Tomorrow's Sunday Times suggests that the Tories remain stalled in Scotland: "The YouGov poll of more than 1,000 Scottish voters found support for the nationalists has almost doubled from 18% to 31% since 2005, up one point from April. But the Conservatives are toiling on 17%, down four points ...
Slightly O/T but not much. International development is also "ring fenced" in Tory plans.Our war in Afghanistan is about building up that country as well as defeating the bad guys. Therefore, use some of the Int Dev budget to properly equip our guys there.
The Conservatives' incredible health policy
The NHS Confederation has issued a report this morning that warns that seven years of plenty are coming to an end and seven years of famine are about to begin. But riding to the rescue is Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health. Mr Lansley popped up on the Today programme at 7.10...
As Ken Clarke said on CH4 this evening, much of what Cam talked about today came from KC's Democracy Policy group.
Daniel Hannan and Douglas Carswell wrote David Cameron's speech today on devolving power
Well, no, in fact they didn't. But the South East England MEP and Harwich MP can rightly claim to have been ahead of the curve when it comes to proposals to devolve power to lower levels; indeed, the ideas and even some of the rhetoric employed by David Cameron in his speech this morning is rema...
Chris Palmer - if you can't tell the difference between the Labour government and a potential Cameron government then you are either ignorant or biased.
Cameron should move a motion of no confidence in Labour
At the moment there is a danger that politics will be seen as a choice between the established parties (mired in sleazy expense claims) versus protest parties (who pretend they are whiter than white): That's not good news for the Conservatives. It's vital that we address expenses-gate (I've s...
Hopefully kippers will spend more time on IndHome and less on this one.
Tuesday 28th April 2009
10pm Ruth Lea on CentreRight: The Labour Government is dishonest, self-serving and rotten to the core 6pm Local Government: Boris Johnson launches sports programme. 5pm ToryDiary: You know the game's up for Labour when... Jarvis Cocker says a Tory victory is "necessary" 4pm WATCH: Speaking in Wa...
"On other blogs"- Cameron not trusted by Mary Ellen Synon - otherwise known as "The Bonk of England"? (ref Wikipedia)
Monday 27th April 2009
9pm ToryDiary: A Conservative majority of 170! 6.30pm WATCH: Nicholas Soames MP objects to use of Winston Churchill by UKIP 5.45pm ToryDiary: "One BBC journalist told me that his colleagues and editors were now more interested in an announcement from George Osborne than from Alistair Darling." 5...
Howard 12.38 You are so right about the "Human Rights Industry". The more complex the legal situation the more money for the lawyers! At the expense of the poor bleeding taxpayers.
Dominic Grieve: It's the interpretation of the Human Rights Act that's the problem - not the ECHR itself
Dominic Grieve QC MP is the Shadow Justice Secretary and responds here to the question posed by Tim Montgomerie here earlier in the month: Can we end the human rights nonsenses while Britain is still a member of the ECHR? In his recent lecture to the Judicial Studies Board, Lord Hoffmann produ...
Sally R 14.41 - UKIP Homeless - very good!
Rupert Matthews: Examining our opponents' European policies - the Liberal Democrats
Rupert Matthews is one of the MEP candidates for the Conservative Party in the East Midlands Region and a freelance historian who has had over 150 books published. This is the second in a series of articles we will be publishing in the run-up to June's European elections in which he will exami...
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