European Union and Westminster Politics
The Power Report suggests that each voter should tick a box on their ballot paper to allocate £3 pounds of state money (our taxes) to the party of their choice. Neil Harding comments that if they don’t want the state to give a party any money, they don’t tick any box. This is totally up [...]
It looks like the Labour Party is about to get its way, and force ID cards down everyone’s throat, but you may be unaware of some interesting facts about this scheme. The man we can call the father of the ID card is Michael Howard. That’s right – it’s good old Dracula, the former leader [...]
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 [...]
Anatole Kaletskysays 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 is trying [...]
After Eastleigh if they are not running scared they are giving a very good impression, the glorious leader says they are not for lurching, but then we have John Redwood the Tories Eusceptic lightning rod suggesting a mandate referendum for a referendum, now Europhile Jesse Norman Hereford and South Herefordshire has visited Eutopia and did not [...]
David Cameron said the lowest common denominator in politics is to calculate the middle distance between your political opponents and then plant yourself somewhere between them, doing that -he said – will get you nowhere. It’s not about being Left-wing or Right-wing – it’s about being where the British people are. The right thing to [...]
According to a survey of 1,844 Tories -are there that many of them left ?- Only 7% think they can win the next election! As one commenter (aptly named Laughingboy) on Conservativehome.com put it -Thats rather high aint it, what do they base their optimism on???- In the past Year the number of those thinking [...]
The Conservative party are echoing the views of many when they say they want to work to create a different direction for the EU. They say they would like an EU of Nation States, an EU that respects the existing national boundaries and has fewer areas of competence, and an EU that actually adds value, [...]
On my desk I have a letter form my own MP who tells me the Conservative party believes that elected representatives should not give up the powers they were elected to wield without asking the people who first elected them. In the modern world, where people want power and control over their lives to deny [...]
And in 1973, the UK joined the European Economic Community This week Gordon Brown launched a nation wide public debate on the British Constitution. I say launched perhaps I should say re-launched because he was referring to the Governance of Briton a green paper published in July last year. Having read the paper I feel [...]
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. [...]
The EU fisheries commissioner Joe Borg says that the EU fisheries policies that encourage the throwing away of thousands of tonnes of dead fish are “morally wrong” and must be reformed. According to the United Nations Worldwide, 8 per cent of the catch is discarded, but in some waters around Scotland and Ireland it reaches [...]
On his blog John Redwood wrote that the Conservatives failed yesterday in the House of Commons to get a commitment to a referendum on part of the Constitution, if they decide to smuggle some of it in by the back door. Mr Redwood says it is typical of this government’s approach. It is also typical [...]
It will take only 15 seconds: long enough for Britain to hand over another £6,000 to the EU. What are you waiting for? Daniel Hannan begs in the Telegraph; he is of course writing about the BBC Christmas Repeal Which law should be tossed into the dustbin of British history? Hannan says we should blowtorch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An absolutely fantastic speech by Christopher Booker to the Bruges Group fringe meeting, at the Tory Party Conference, Bournemouth. You can read the full speech on Eureferendum For my money Booker should be on the main central stage in Bournemouth, the “Not the Conservative Party” really needs to hear this time and time again, until [...]
The Campaign for an English Parliament has just issued a full report on the devolution process, going by the title of DEVOLUTION FOR ENGLAND A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY POLICY ‘ENGLISH VOTES ON ENGLISH MATTERS’ The report details the devolution progress to date and explores some of the problems that have been created by [...]
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 [...]
Sir – Philip Davies MP and his colleagues (Letters, July 18) are right to assert that the most important issue is not whether Conservative MEPs sit with the EPP but rather whether Britain should be a member of the EU at all. While the former is of internal interest to the Conservative Party, the latter [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 evidence do [...]
I see I am not the only one who thinks Cameron is loosing the core vote Sir – I have voted Conservative at every possible opportunity. I did so because I believe in its inherent principles. I believe in the market and I believe in low taxation. It is on these principles that I will [...]
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, [...]
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 he’s moved fast to change the Conservative party’s image to make it more modern, more inclusive, more appealing to voters in [...]
This from Anne Palmer 11.3.2006. A Traitor’s Bill. Known also as the Abolition of Parliament Bill. Officially called The Legislative Regulatory Reform Bill. I would like to draw attention to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill presently going through Parliament one way [...]
The English Question Thanks to the Blog Great Britian not Little England for the link to this report from Publius: The Journal of Federalism by Robert Hazell. Devolution to Scotland and Wales throws up related questions about the government of England. Does England need to find its own separate political voice? Does England too need [...]
Many thanks to Dennis Cooper for sending this to me from the Telegraph Clarke has a hinterland: it’s his foreground that’s the problem By Ferdinand Mount (Filed: 24/08/2005) There is, we know, more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth and we are supposed to carry home the lost sheep on our shoulders rejoicing. [...]
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