Tag: Conservatives

Back To The Roots

Matrix Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 11:32:53 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

My last blog was, "Time To End New Labour". It sparked up a lot of criticism. This time I'm going to do something else. Instead of trying to make you glum, I'm going to try and say what the Conservatives have that Labour don't have. First off what Labour doesn't do much any more is get out to the people. If they do then they need to show they have. In the Conservative party we have Cameron Direct. Thats my first point. My second point sums up everything else. I was going to list all the Conservative policys but I realised I could save time. The second point is, is that the policies them selves sound better, look better and what they do is hurt Labour badly. They penertrate Labour's week points then we publicis that on a massive scale. Thats where Labour are going wrong. Thats what the Conservatives are doing right.

So what Labour need to do is go back to the roots and start afresh. But they're never going to do that and that's why I'm Conservative. It makes sence.




The Conservatives' unfunded Inheritance Tax pledge

LabourMatters Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 11:25:08 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Telegraph has details of Conservative plans to double - from £1m to £2m - the Inheritance Tax (IHT) threshold for married couples if they win the 2010 general election.




Time To End New Labour

Matrix Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 07:06:53 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

I'm going to tell you what New Labour is from a Conservative point of view. I'm a Conservative as well.



Musings on Identity

snowflake5 Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 08:08:24 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

...and Britishness



The worst conservative cowardice

Jim Dodd Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 03:12:14 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

One of the most infuriating things about modern politics is the advent of these snivelling, craven cowards who hide their diabolical marketing messages behind the credibility and good will attributed to military personnel.

Tim Montgomery and his cabal of cowardly cohorts should be ashamed of this flagrant (and crap!) attempt to hide Neo Conservative failure behind the broad and brave shoulders of US soldiers.




Looks like the next general election will be about foreign policy

snowflake5 Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 05:58:28 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Conservatives are hugging us close on domestic policy - they will keep the 20% basic income tax, the independent BoE, the minimum wage, the spending on the NHS, they'll keep all our crime initiatives too, as they've been proven to reduce crime. It's on foreign policy that differences between them and us loom large



The Vile Tactics Of Camerons "Caring" conservatives

simonmagnus Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 02:33:53 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

So this is caring conservatism?




Coming Home to Roost

pauldburgin Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 07:07:17 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

After the Tories accusing Labour of sleaze in the past few months, have the Conservatives not been watching their back yard enough?



YouGov poll for Economist - Civil Liberties

snowflake5 Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 03:04:12 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

74% support CCTV, 51% think police should be able to build up the DNA database so that eventually they hold DNA on every citizen and 61% support detention of 42 days



David Davis, Conservatives and Hypocrisy

snowflake5 Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 11:39:48 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

David Davis and the Conservative blogosphere have made much of how they hate CCTV and the DNA database - conveniently forgetting that these things were introduced by the last Conservative government.



A crippling paradox?

The Right Direction Sat Jun 07, 2008 at 04:34:01 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

My political priority is social justice. Poverty is abhorrent and I strongly believe that everyone should have equal opportunities in life. Likewise, while I think wealth creation is crucial our economy, I hate the greed and selfishness which seems to be so strongly present within the capitalist system.

You would be forgiven for thinking that I'm a passionate supporter of the Labour party. But I'm not. I am conservative.




Are the Tories really looking forward to Henley?

Tom Harris MP Tue May 27, 2008 at 03:52:00 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Liberals are clearly taking the forthcoming Henley by-election seriously, as evidenced by this YouTube video posted on Saturday. And so, of course, are Labour, I hasten to add.




Is conservative home really that dry?

Lorin Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 06:51:01 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Why are there so many tories commenting on everything here?



Conservatives Withdraw Whip from Bob Spink

jamesmalexander Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 05:23:36 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Conservatives have withdrawn the whip from Bob Spink, MP for Castle Point.

 




Conservatives using council tax for propaganda purposes?

snowflake5 Sun Mar 02, 2008 at 02:48:55 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Conservative council spend £100,000 on a mailshot publicising their budget policies, even through they knew they had no hope of passing the budget as didn't have the votes to get it through




Time to Say Goodbye to Tory Fund Managers Fidelity?

grayee Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 09:48:11 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Or is it belated good riddance to bad rubbish? Tom P of Capital & Labour (and his Mrs) has finally had enough of active Conservative Party supporters,Fidelity Investment. Fidelity has donated £435, 500 (£115,000 in 2007 alone) to the Tories in recent years without disclosing the information to their investors.

Tom and his family have had a long term saving plan with Fidelity for many years. Once they found out that the company was giving the Tories huge amounts of money they were very concerned. They tried to contact Fidelity about their over why Fidelity were giving this money to the Tories but felt they were “fobbed off”. So they are leaving Fidelity.




School Trips to Auschwitz

pauldburgin Fri Feb 22, 2008 at 07:24:21 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Tories face uproar over accusing Labour of "gimmicks"



Wanted: someone to take on Lord Ashcroft

howard Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 10:28:02 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Why doesn't someone make a formal complaint about Ashcroft? He apparently isn't on the electoral register anywhere, his companies are a web of international intrigue (some British, some not British) and the Tories appear to be lying about his tax and residence status.

Ashcroft's ill-gotten gains which may have been illegally donated to the Tories are funding nasty, personal attacks against some of our brightest and best candidates.

Plus he's paying millions in to the Tories nationally.

If someone is the majority (or outright) owner of a company and therefore has the power to direct that company to make a political donation, surely that should be seen in the same way as Abrahams' donations via proxy or Hain's imaginary think tank.

Otherwise why doesn't everyone who wants to make a secret donation just register an imaginary company and make the donations through that...

HOLD ON A MINUTE - THAT'S JUST WHAT LOTS OF THE TORIES HAVE DONE....
 




Who is the Tory frontbencher who pays his family?

howard Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 02:39:49 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

David Davies' outburst today against Gordon Brown is a smokescreen to hide the Tories hurried scrabble to get out of the Derek Conway row.

Look at this: last week Cameron announced his FRONT BENCH would have until April to declare if they employed family members - ie: were guilty of the same misappropriation of taxpayers money as Derek Conway. That gave them two months to stop doing it and put their houses in order.

Today he changed his mind and said they would have until JULY to do it. Remember this is front benchers not back benchers, he isn't asking them to declare anything at all.

It looks to me like one of the Tory Front Bench is being protected from having to delcare something embarrassing - let's see if we can find out who it is.




Return of the workhouse?

jamesmalexander Wed Jan 09, 2008 at 09:53:41 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

I listened and read with interest David Cameron’s plans for the long-term unemployed. I was intrigued and concerned.

Many years ago, people who could not afford to continue living, ended up in the workhouse and working for a pittance for unscrupulous, exploitative bosses.


Being poor is not something to be ashamed of, a crime or a debt to society. Poor people need help, encouragement, even coercion, not punishment.




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