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Your headline shows common sense Tim which is more than can be said for the home secretary: "The way we police in the UK is by consent." Perhaps Dave plans to "Nudge" those poor rioters into good behaviour.
Commented Aug 9, 2011 on Cameron has two tasks. (1) Restore immediate order. (2) Plot a path to a country where there are consequences for doing the wrong thing. at thetorydiary
Cameron has two tasks. (1) Restore immediate order. (2) Plot a path to a country where there are consequences for doing the wrong thing.
By Tim Montgomerie Follow Tim on Twitter. All over the world people have been watching lawless Britain. They've watched businesses torched, innocent citizens robbed and cars overturned. Worse, they've seen the police holding back, taunted by yobs who seem fearless. They've also seen left-wing po...
The answers to a question of this kind in the next ConHome survey would be interesting: "Would you support and campaign for a merged Conservative/Liberal party?"
Commented Jul 24, 2010 on Could the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats merge to fight the next election as a single force? at thetorydiary
Could the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats merge to fight the next election as a single force?
By Paul Goodman This morning's papers report yesterday's political Cabinet, which sought to answer the question: how can the Liberal Democrats be rescued? The Prime Minister faces a dilemma. He wants his partner's poll ratings to go up, but he doesn't want his own to go down. A logical res...
Don't be an arse. Whether he is or not is irrelevant. As a proud possessor of a foreskin I agree wholeheartedly with Rob.
Commented Jul 18, 2010 on The world must support Israel, as if she goes down, we all go down at CentreRight
The world must support Israel, as if she goes down, we all go down
One of the most astonishing - and destructive - political phenomena in recent years has been hostility to the state of Israel and all she stands for. If it were just confined to the extreme left - and extreme Islamism - that would be bad enough. But this is a virus that has spread beyond the fri...
It's noticeable that Bercow only required him to withdraw the word "pipsqueak" and not "miserable". When can we get rid of this speaker?
Commented Jul 8, 2010 on Tom Watson calls Michael Gove a "miserable pipsqueak of a man" at PlayPolitical.com - Labour Leadership Elections
Tom Watson calls Michael Gove a "miserable pipsqueak of a man"
Excellent news.
Commented Jul 7, 2010 on Is there a plot to block Bill Cash from chairing the European Scrutiny Committee? at ConservativeHome's Parliament Page
Is there a plot to block Bill Cash from chairing the European Scrutiny Committee?
Wednesday July 7th update: BIll Cash has in the event been nominated unopposed to chair the European Scrutiny Committee. He said: “I am utterly delighted at receiving such overwhelming support from so many colleagues. We now have to get down to the business of sifting through the massive logjam ...
Unless Bill has changed his mind recently, that's not correct WHS. Sadly, he has not (yet) been persuaded by the monolith of arguments in favour of our inevitable withdrawal.
In spite of this he remains the best man for the job.
Commented Jul 2, 2010 on Cash '22 at CentreRight
Cash '22
Bill Cash is a force of Parliamentary nature. I’m not surprised that there is a rumour circulating (as reported on yesterday’s ConHome) that there may be new moves to nobble the 1922 Committee, because some people wouldn’t like to see him chair Parliament’s EU scrutiny committee. He’d be good at...
Quite right John. Bill Cash's knowledge of the intricacies of EU law and treaties is without compare. Certainly, he is far better informed than all recent Prime Minsters and Foreign Secretaries on European issues. The role of Parliament is to hold the executive to account. It is for this reason that there is no better candidate for the post than he.
Commented Jul 2, 2010 on Is there a plot to block Bill Cash from chairing the European Scrutiny Committee? at ConservativeHome's Parliament Page
Is there a plot to block Bill Cash from chairing the European Scrutiny Committee?
Wednesday July 7th update: BIll Cash has in the event been nominated unopposed to chair the European Scrutiny Committee. He said: “I am utterly delighted at receiving such overwhelming support from so many colleagues. We now have to get down to the business of sifting through the massive logjam ...
Agreed. I'm surprised at Phillip. A better and shorter PMB for him would be one repealing section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972.
The burka is surely a matter for private policy not a sweeping public law. Banks and other institutions are already perfectly within their rights to refuse to serve customers with covered heads.
As for the organs of the state, under existing guidance, passport photographs must be unobscured or the application will be rejected. Judges can and do refuse to hear witnesses who are covered up in this way.
There is no doubt that the burka oppresses women. If it is banned, their menfolk will no doubt refuse to allow them out of the home thereby oppressing them even more.
Commented Jun 30, 2010 on Banning the burka and introducing daylight saving time are among the measures proposed in Tory MPs' Private Member's Bills at ConservativeHome's Parliament Page
Banning the burka and introducing daylight saving time are among the measures proposed in Tory MPs' Private Member's Bills
Thirteen Conservative MPs - including nine of the new intake - were successful in the Private Member's Bill ballot earlier in the month. Today sees them formally presenting their Bills for the first time (there won't be any debate at this stage), which are summarised as follows on the parliament...
No.
Commented Jun 1, 2010 on How about renaming the 1922 as the Parliamentary Conservative Party? at thetorydiary
How about renaming the 1922 as the Parliamentary Conservative Party?
One simple idea for Graham Brady. As a first act, why not rename the Backbench 1922 Committee as the Parliamentary Conservative Party? '1922' sounds out-of-date and it's hardly self-explanatory. Now that frontbenchers are allowed to attend the meetings it makes sense to bring the Committee into ...
It will probably prove extremely difficult for them to be officially cleansed of racism. Without committing himself either way of course, HHJ Collins said at last month's hearing that the new draft constitution contained several possible areas of indirect discrimination. The case will be coming back before him next month for a substantive hearing, but expect the matter to run and run, legal fees and costs draining the BNP coffers all the while.
Commented Feb 14, 2010 on The BNP may have surrendered to the legal need to abandon its 'whites only' membership policy but BNP members were hostile to the change at CentreRight
The BNP may have surrendered to the legal need to abandon its 'whites only' membership policy but BNP members were hostile to the change
James Bethell of NothingBritish.com. Nick Griffin delights in the flattering comparison, but today's abolition of the BNP's infamous white-only membership restriction was no "Clause 4 moment". Although he has energetically implemented the presentational modernisation of the BNP ("suits not boots...
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