Archive for October, 2011

Four year’s ago Ming Campbell was the Leader of the Lib Dems – I know it seems such a short while ago. In the Autumn of 2007, in a bid to save both himself and his party, he bizarrely proposed that there should be an in-out referendum on Britain’s future in the EU. I say [...]

Lobbying for all

One of the key issues floating around the news of Liam Fox’s problems has been the issue of lobbyists. As the Cabinet Secretary’s report in to this debacle has revealed the civil service does not believe that Mr. Werrity was a lobbyist. Whilst he clearly held views he was not promoting them on behalf of [...]

Time for Party Conference radicalism and a more rational opposition

An odd thing happened to the Conservative Party conference this year – it changed. I have been to many conferences, although to be honest it is only in the past five or so years that I have endured the entirety of the event. What was odd was the atmosphere of virtual disdain for the process [...]

Conservatives – winning the next election

I was present at a fascinating debate between Nick Boles MP, Stephan Shakespeare (Yougov) and Tim Montgomerie (Conhome). They were debating what it was the Conservatives needed to do if they are to win the next General Election outright – and implement the things that the Lib Dems are preventing us from doing. Stephan Shakespeare’s [...]

The issue that dare not speak

Day one of the Conservative party conference has been characterised by the name that dares not speak – th Lib Dems. No one wants to mention them and certainly no one wants to try and compete with the childish outbursts we had at their party conference. In many respects the only debate we are hearing [...]

Britain and the Euro

I am not normally a fan of Peter Oborne – he looks a bit like a right-wing Gordon Brown. Having said that one cannot argue with the thesis he lays out in this very entertaining booklet on the disgraceful way Clegg, Huhne, Heseltine, Blair, the BBC and CBI tried to sell our currency down the [...]