A Simple Ambition for my Country

The leader of the Conservative Party proudly announced that he has a simply ambition for this country. It’s at the heart of what I believe, and what I believe our country needs.
Oh goody he is going to repeal the 1972 act of admission to the EU begin the rebuilding process of our nation state. [...]

Referndum Monkey

I have been reading and exchanging some views with NM on his blog, Nose Monkey`s EUtopia my blog being almost dormant.

I should say that on many issues I do tend to agree with the views as presented on the blog, until that is it comes to the EU, there I am afraid [...]

Those who live in Glass Houses

Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said if the Prime Minister reneged on his party’s pledge to hold a referendum
“no one will trust him on anything else”.

I said if David Cameron reneged on his 2006 election pledge to remove Conservative MEP`s from the pro-constitutional EPP–ED group.

“no one will trust him on [...]

It`s All Our Fault

Alan Cochrane writing in the Telegraph says it is “good to hear the Tory leader reject the populist appeal of English nationalism.”
I find it rather odd that when writing about the elections to the Scottish Parliament it is somehow the English which are to blame for the present mess the Scottish raj which is controlling [...]

Conservatives Plans at odds with EU ideals

John Redwood has a post ridiculing a glossy brochure sent to him and doubtless many others, by Margaret Hodge, entitled “Creating prosperity in every region: England’s Regional development” Agencies”.

“She tells us the RDAs help to bring prosperity to all parts of England. Nowhere does she point out that the reigonal disparities have grown substantially during [...]

Another Tory leader Leader Bites the Dust

Oh dear! David Cameron suddenly decides the Conservatives do “do the EU” after all. In a long batch of waffle in the Telegraph Mr Cameron assisted by the Prime Minister of the Czech republic sets out the Conservative vision for the future of the EU, a vision based on the formation of the new political [...]

Eurosceptic who would belive such a thing!

Denis MacShane (Matyjaszek)  Who still advises the government on European affairs (I think ePolitix must mean the EU) has said the Conservatives’ foreign policy is a "disastrous blow" to Britain’s national interest. In relation to the Tories’ ambition to split from the European People’s Party grouping of centre right parties, MacShane said: "David Cameron once [...]

Reducing the C in conservatism

Always assuming “Conservatism” is not a contradiction in terms!
Many people have been saying for over three years now that the conservative party needs to address its image in the liberal left main stream media. The party needs to get through to the public what being conservative means, it needs to create a tranche of conservatives [...]

Labour should use EU to split Tories

Anthony Giddens one-time director of the London School of Economic, suggests in an article for Prospect Magazine “Labour should use EU to split Conservatives” at the next election.

Open Europe reports that Giddens “argues that Tony Blair has consistently “avoided spelling out what he thought should be the future of the EU and Britain’s place [...]

The Cost of Red Tape

An excellent article by Jeff Randle in the Telegraph on the cost of doing business in the EU.
I love some of the thoughts:
“For the sad souls who cling to the fast-disappearing hope of that headline ever becoming true, it has been another miserable week. Facts are stripping away the Eurofanatics’ clothing.
Very soon they will stand [...]

Thinking oustide of the Box

Anatole Kaletsky says the Dave’s not the Tory party “The Conservative Party has not just moved to the left, abandoning Margaret Thatcher and leapfrogging Tony Blair and Gordon Brown on to what David Cameron described as the liberal, progressive mainstream of British politics. No, the Cameron project appears to be far more audacious. He [...]

Good News I think?

The BBC reports on the fringe meetings at Bournemouth (well some of them anyway)

Apparently, the number of Tory MPs who want to withdraw from the EU is growing, thus claims Euro-sceptic MP Philip Davies and David Davies who is one of “six whole” Tory MP members of the Better Off Out group said: [...]

Keeping us all Entertained

Simon Heffer questions whether Dave Cameron and his friends are on the right road although the new approach might be attracting a few younger people to the not the Conservatives, it is doing so at the expense of the core voters, I suspect the Conservative leadership thinking is, that many will bury their concerns and [...]

The new EU treaty putting British sovereignty at risk

Hat tip to Tommy English for the link to this essay

…Our next general election should be about much more than schools and hospitals. Britain’s sovereignty is at stake. And although the Government wants to pull the wool over our eyes, we need an elevated debate on Europe…
Brian Durrant – Other articles
Mon 17 Jul, [...]

Hurd welcomes new realism on EU from Cameron

In a letter to the FT Douglas Hurd argues that “David Cameron, with his colleagues, certainly understands that the tide of opinion in the European Union, including part of the European Commission, has swung in favour of liberal reform. (This has been clear to some of us for 15 years.) Like all compromises, his decision [...]

EU exit

Sir – While the group with which Conservative MEPs align themselves in the European Parliament is important, the more pressing issue surely has to be that roughly two thirds of all laws that take effect in this country come from Brussels, not Westminster.
It is very helpful that David Cameron allows backbench Conservative MPs to campaign [...]

Conservatives half-brained over the EU

It looks as if the Conservatives are at it yet again; they do seem to live in a dream world in which the EU does not exist and can therefore be ignored, because the EU is a constant source of conflict within the party, the Conservative leadership wish it not be above the political horizon [...]

Judge Humpty Dumpty decision to be challenged.

Latest News Release

Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
‘Parking Fine Mess’ case now set for the Court of Appeal…Judge Humpty Dumpty’s decision to be challenged.
A case came before the High Court 5th July last week, which could ultimately lead to every parking fine in the country being declared invalid…or, alternatively, the Metric Martyrs’ convictions being declared ‘unsafe.’
West Midlands [...]

They are not fines – so thats fine

A reasonable précis of the arguments, Mr Booker is a little wrong on the Justice Laws ruling, which was that firstly there was a hierarchy of acts of parliament and secondly “constitutional statutes” could not be changed by implication.
Government officials across the land will have heaved a sigh of relief last week at [...]

Deep Authoritarianism

I was astounded last night, whilst watching the BBC`s light hearted political programme “This Week”, when Diane Abbott the left leaning Labour MP and BBC lovey slipped in a comment about the Conservatives, “many Tories hate the European Convention on Human Rights because it is foreign, and that many Tories are deeply authoritarianism and they [...]

Nothing More Than Hot Air?

There are two MSM articles that coincide with two separate themes this blog has referred to recently,
The first was in yesterdays Telegraph “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998
By Bob Carter”
For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the [...]

Climate change is a huge and growing problem.

More from David Cameron’s speech yesterday Climate change is a huge and growing problem.
In Britain the three hottest years since records began centuries ago all occurred in the last
decade. “Our planet is rapidly getting warmer. The polar ice caps are melting. Sea levels are rising. Hosepipe bans in April. What more [...]

The parties are asking us for a lifeline – well, let them sweat

Not a penny more of public money should be directed at propping up Britain’s political parties. For 20 years they have conspired to reduce public participation in democracy. Now they are paying the inevitable price — depressed membership, reduced income and falling election turnouts. To demand that the taxpayer reward them for this exclusivity with [...]

Changing our Party – changing our country

In his speech today, David Cameron gave two undertakings that interest me:
A future Conservative government will scrap unelected regional assemblies and give power back to local people.
and ID cards of which he said:
Labour’s plastic poll tax has no place in modern Britain. It’s an ugly monument to the waste, chaos and vanity [...]

Diddy David insults UKIP

We cannot know if David Cameron’s decision to insult the UK Independence Party, on a morning radio programme yesterday, was a spur-of-the-moment remark or part of a considered strategy. Either way, it was a mistake.
If the Conservatives have a strategy to denigrate UKIP, in the hope of halting the erosion of their own vote, they [...]

Parties of the living dead

Why would anyone donate to these parties of the living dead anyway?

DESPITE THE endlessly exzzzziting inveszzztigations into political party funding, a couple of questions remain unasked. For a start, why should Labour, the Conservatives and other terminally ill parties have a God-given right to life?
The all-party funding crisis reveals that these organisations are already [...]

Like a parody of BBC bias

A  report on the BBC’s the World Tonight attacked the Conservatives for planning to sit with Poland’s Law and Justice party in the European Parliament. The report explained: “Since David Cameron’s election as leader [...]

The Tory Party

I have been busy this last week so haven’t posted much, I have been saving items I wanted to write about in my draft folder, one of which was John Major’s little missive in the Telegraph,
Thankfully Richard North has save me the trouble
“A prime minister that was effectively destroyed by the European Union, with the [...]