Posts Tagged ‘ David Cameron ’

Talking the Thatcherite talk

I have rarely hoped for a newspaper story to be true more than this one from the Telegraph: UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron has pledged to consider tightening the regulation on trade unions if they try to get in the way of public sector pay freezes designed to help reduce the £178m debt mountain [ READ MORE ]

At the crossroads

Every time I sit down to watch the news these days I get an ever stronger impression that we’re about to hit a crossroads in terms of the direction the UK can go, politically and (by implication) economically. Just today we have the news that Japan, the ‘sick man of the world’ of the last [ READ MORE ]

The new line of attack

Guido has long been an exponent of the “Gordon Brown is insane” line of argument, which he argues is and should be the Conservatives’ main attack method between now and whenever the election is held. Sure enough, the latest Conservative party-political broadcast underlines the fact that the PM is now well and truly isolated where [ READ MORE ]

John Bercow is the next Speaker

Epic Commons fail. He’s barely even a Conservative, seeing as he apparently tried to defect to Labour not so long ago… I reckon Sir George Young would have been a much better choice (and not because he went to Eton and did Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Christ Church), not least because Bercow is also [ READ MORE ]

A new age of transparency?

As with most scandals, the gigantic fuss caused by the MPs’ expenses revelations that have already claimed several scalps in all 3 main parties, and look set to claim several more (if only by virtue of some MPs preferring to jump rather than being pushed and standing down at the next general election), is slowly [ READ MORE ]

UK General Election Now Petition

Courtesy of General Election Now: We tuned in to David Cameron’s launch of the Conservative Party’s European election campaign, and were particularly struck by his message to the UK public: “I think there is now only one way of sorting out the mess and that is for Parliament to be dissolved and for there to [ READ MORE ]

General election petition

Tea with a Tory and I are in the process of setting up a blog and online petition in response to David Cameron’s call for activists of all political affiliations to put together as many names of UK voters as they can demanding a general election as soon after the European elections on 4.vi.09 as [ READ MORE ]

Tory sleaze

I’ve had a fair amount of private criticism from readers of this blog that I have a tendency to focus too much on Labour errors and misdemeanours, and thus implicitly give the Conservatives an easy ride, while completely ignoring the other parties. The latter is merely a function of Westminster being what is called in [ READ MORE ]

MPs expenses

When it isn’t smear emails offering some hard evidence of endemic Westminster sleaze, it’s what the blogs have called “troughing” – elected representatives from all shades of the political spectrum not only making one set of rules for the country and another for themselves, but also lining their pockets with multiple layers of the taxpayers’ [ READ MORE ]

The Facebook front

The battle for the Interweb between Conservatives and Labour has now expanded to include the hallowed ground of the world’s premier social networking site: Gordon Brown’s page is here and David Cameron’s page here. Notice anything? Brown has 4000 supporters, Cameron has nearly 9000. Brown’s additions to the front page consist of 1 album, Cameron’s [ READ MORE ]

The “real” nasty stories about the Tories

Courtesy of The New Adventures of Juliette. The Miliband and Cameron ones are particularly good. And the Boris one’s actually true. But, like the first anonymous commenter, I disagree with her take on Osborne. Plus he was at St. Paul’s, not Eton. I should know – I went to both… mea culpa :)[ READ MORE ]

Day 21 (17.vii.08)

Another lecture day today – this time on Kymlicka and multiculturalism. Much more my line of business, given that my animated response to the discussions in tutes back in Hilary term of hate speech, the offence principle, and general limitations of liberty have led me to adopt a rather hostile attitude to theoretical attempts to [ READ MORE ]

Haltemprice and Howden by-election a weighty affair

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7498648.stm Whoever said the political heavyweights were staying away from Humberside for this truly unique exercise in Conservative bravado? So many are there, in fact, that the organisers of the post-vote results announcement have had to abandon the idea of putting all 26 candidates (including representatives of the Monster Raving Loony and Miss Great Britain [ READ MORE ]

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