Archive for the 'Conservatives' Category
Do criminals have human rights?
Yazan: Sara | 31 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, criminal justice, David Cameron
Two hours before David Cameron made his ‘dynamite’ quote about the human rights of burglars, I was watching BBC1′s The Big Question. A young mother stated that she believed that paedophiles ‘had lost their human rights when they chose to abuse a child’. I find this rather disconcerting. Surely every human has inalienable human rights? That doesn’t [...]
Put your dog whistle down, David
Yazan: Sara | 31 January 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: Conservatives, crime, criminal justice, David Cameron
Earlier this afternoon, David Cameron told BBC1′s Politics Show “The moment a burglar steps over your threshold, and invades your property, with all the threat that gives to you, your family and your livelihood, I think they leave their human rights outside.” To many people, dismayed by recent headline court cases, I expect this sounds [...]
Eric Pickles the TARDIS time-traveller
Yazan: Sara | 19 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, LibDems
Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MP is getting more than a little stick for his comments that the former LibDem leader Paddy Ashdown is now ‘frail and confused’. Those of us who have seen Paddy recently would know that he is matching neither of those qualities and still looks and sounds as fit and sharp as [...]
Conservative policy making informed by TV detective series
Yazan: Sara | 18 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives
Today’s FT has an interview with wannabe Chancellor George Osborne, where he once again fails to give any real details of the Conservatives’ economic plans, should they win the next election. Osborne talks about his admiration for Sweden, although he is unable to put his finger on exactly why, saying: “I’m no expert on Swedish society but I am [...]
The George giveth and the George taketh away
Yazan: Sara | 15 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, economy
The papers give a big fanfare to George Osborne’s announcement that he will cut the benefits paid to the middle classes, by removing tax credits for people earning over £50,000, and stopping Child Trust Funds for all but the poorest third of families. The Daily Mail gives the total amount saved by these changes as [...]
Lord Tebbit’s praise for the Lib Dems’ tax plans
Yazan: Sara | 13 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, LibDems
In his blog post in today’s Daily Telegraph Lord Tebbit asks, “Why won’t the two main parties do anything about the madness of taxing the poor?’. “And I hate to say it, but only one party leader seems to have grasped that, if you construct a system where unskilled people are worse off by taking [...]
He loves me, he loves me not …
Yazan: Sara | 05 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives
So Dave can’t decide if he wants to reward marriage or not. Sounds like something he should have thought about more carefully before making romantic overtures to the LibDems! Seriously though, what’s so wonderful about marriage? Well speaking as someone who has been happily married for the past 16 years and who sees every sign of this [...]
Are you drinking what he’s drinking?
Yazan: Sara | 30 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, David Cameron, David Davis, elections, LibDems, Parliament, Sal Brinton
At this time of year, most of us enjoy a festive tipple or two. Judging by David Cameron’s New Year message’ I can only assume that he’s spent rather too long tasting the contents of his wine cellar. Taking up the LibDem lovebombing baton from Eric Pickles (what a thought!), he said: “Let’s be honest that [...]
The tofu tacticians beat the turnip Taliban, as Notting Hill thrashes Norfolk
Yazan: Sara | 17 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives
So Liz Truss has been reconfirmed as the Conservative PPC for South West Norfolk. Good. It was a ridiculous position for them to have placed themselves in and for CCHQ to have allowed to happen. The querying of Liz’s selection, just 48 hours after she had won the members’ vote, raised two questions. Firstly, how [...]
I mentioned it once – but I think I got away with it
Yazan: sarabedford | 16 June 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: by-elections, Conservatives, David Cameron, Europe
So after signing his party up to a ragtag bunch of right-wing political parties in the European Parliament, with comrades that include Latvians who celebrate the Waffen SS and Poles who seek to oppose the ‘Germanisation’ of Europe, David Cameron might be believed to have a strange view of Europe and Germany’s distant Nazi past. [...]
