Category Archives: Tories

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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Is the IPC gravy train about to come off its rails?

By Jackal | Published: January 28, 2010
Labour continue their fiscal policy of spend, spend, spend and repeatedly tell us that this is the only way out of the economic downturn. Political points are at stake and so they endlessly bleat on about how no other party would have handled the situation better. They would like us to believe that everything is [...]
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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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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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Cameron and the CFP

By scrubber | Published: January 8, 2010
I’m indebted to a tweet for this one from James Delingpole. Here’s the final paragraph: “I’m afraid it’s precisely this kind of spinelessness which explains why some of us find it so hard to be enthusiastic about the prospects of a Cameron administration.” I mostly go along with JD, and this is no exception. I’m a life-long Tory, [...]
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