Category Archives: David Cameron

So, what chances a hung Parliament?

By scrubber | Published: February 23, 2010
I think they’re higher than many people realise. Daniel Hannan dismisses the idea here, and Simon Wilson of MoneyWeek thinks it likely… He uses many of the arguments I did here. Interestingly, the vast majority of the comments on Daniel Hannan’s blog support and underline my current thinking on this… Wikio Wikio
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Can David Cameron win this election or not?

By scrubber | Published: February 22, 2010
When, about a year or so ago, I started voicing my concerns about David Cameron’s “conservativeness”, and saying that I thought I’d have to vote UKIP to be true to my beliefs and values (which are essentially small ‘c’ conservative) and especially my Euro-scepticism, my friends (and others) thought I was mad. However, over time, [...]
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The Conservatives still don’t get it…

By scrubber | Published: February 15, 2010
First off, let me repeat: I am by instinct and inclination a Conservative voter. My local Tory PPC is Ben Gummer, a man I’ve met several times, and whom I like. He will be, I believe, a very good MP for Ipswich, and I hope he will be elected. However, it is highly unlikely that [...]
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Brown’s tears; fake or not?

By scrubber | Published: February 13, 2010
Ok, we’ve all heard of the widely-trailed interview on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories which will be broadcast on ITV1 tomorrow at 10.15pm in which Brown blubs on TV. I think Amanda Platell has it about right in her Mail article “A crying shame the PM’s sunk so low“. Anyway, Labour spin doctors are making much of [...]
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PMQs; what’s the point?

By scrubber | Published: February 10, 2010
Just watched PMQs on the BBC website. It was a classic performance by the Prime Mentalist, who failed to address, let alone answer, a single question from David Cameron, whose performance was a pretty good one. By contrast, he at least attempted to answer Nick Clegg’s questions, even if he did use them as a platform [...]
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A pause in quantitative easing, but the rollercoaster has only just begun..

By Jackal | Published: February 5, 2010
It was announced last week that the Bank of England had spent the entire £200bn it had set out for quantitative easing (QE). This QE package was designed as a preventative measure, but also a tool for kick-starting the economy. The UK economy grew by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2009 and so the [...]
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Election battle lines drawn up over the economy?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 3, 2010
In the old days, when Tories were Tories, and Labour were Labour, it was quite easy to predict how the battle lines would be drawn up for a mid-recession election. Tories would be in favour of cutting the state, cutting spending, and lowering taxes to promote growth. Labour would raise taxes to pay [...]
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William Hague performs well in PMQs

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
William Hague destroyed Harridan Harperson today in PMQs (link to BBC iPlayer) where she was deputising for the Prime Mentalist. Vince Cable did a fair job as well. Watching HH was interesting, in a watching-paint-dry kind of way. She was poorly-prepared, wooden, perfunctory and lightweight. I’ve long been frustrated watching the Prime Mentalist blatantly not answering [...]
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Deemed offensive: Job advert that asked for a reliable person!

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
I can’t decide whether this is a candidate for the “you couldn’t make it up” department, or the “the bloody country’s gone mad” department. Just when this PC nonsense seems incapable of getting any worse, it does! Our thanks to the Mail and the Express for this one, from the Jobcentre Plus office in Thetford, Norfolk. The [...]
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Cameron’s attack on ’social recession’

By DiamondGeezer | Published: January 22, 2010
All over the papers this morning is David Cameron’s plan to launch an attack on Labour and the part it played in what he calls the ’social recession’. Frankly it’s an open goal that anyone would struggle to miss, but I’m glad he is taking the fight to Labour on this one. Multiculturalism, [...]
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