tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252050732011-04-22T00:48:55.599+01:00Modern? Conservative? Then you are in the right place. This site intends to chronicle the progress of the Conservative Party as it is led by David Cameron. Insightful, knowledgeable, funny, supportive without being slavish - thats what I'm aiming for anyway...Modern Conservativehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03127759903808913476noreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25205073.post-22938563362238119582007-01-21T19:00:00.000Z2007-01-21T19:26:07.368Z

Harriet Harman has a blog - it's pod went pop new (she's only posted four times) so I'm sure she is still finding her feet.However the political nerd inside me did feel compelled to correct her on some factual inaccuracies in her Hillary Clinton post (who incidentally is "to be presented as America’s Margaret Thatcher"according to the Sunday Times). Ms Harman, the current Minister of State for

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After a longer than intended hiatus my Intenet access is now fixed and I am able to blog again!Obviously if I had any readers you all stopped checking to see if i had posted weeks ago so it's pretty much back to square on- never mind i guess - so Happy New Year!

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Sadly my home Internet Connection is broken - so until it's fixed probably no more posting - I will resume in the New Year!

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Not sure about Mike Read it would be difficult for him to escape his minor celeb bufoon image, Councillor Victoria Borwickand Councillor Warwick Lightfoot don't get me excited,Andrew Boff had potential although I'm not sure he's still intending to enter the contest,Richard Barnes is clearly a serious candidate but lacks the X factor and "abolish the Mayor" Lee Rotheram is surely only for those

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Mmmh another great example of consensus building by the Labour government... "There is great controversy over the Bill. The Mayor, for one, is unhappy. He is spending £80,000 of taxpayers’ money to tell us so. The assembly is unhappy, the boroughs are unhappy, the residents associations and the amenities societies are unhappy, most London council tax payers are unhappy, clearly the Opposition

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Conservativehome, the Daily Mail and indeed Francis Maude on the last Challenge the Chairman podcast agree that the Priority List is about to have some names removed. The candidates that are to be removed are those that are showing insufficient commitment and not applying for enough seats.This has generally been welcomed even if the glee some of the posters on CH are showing does seem slightly

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This is super funny - I'm with Paxman on this one. If I want to see nonsense I know where to find it . But I'm pretty sure I don't want to find it on Newsnight.

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Stephen Shakespeare of YouGov was on "The Ideas Program" on 18 Doughty Street a couple of weeks ago. He pointed out that while David Cameron has successfully connected with floating voters who switch parties he needed to pay more attention to about 10% of voters who float not between parties but between voting Conservative and not voting at all.Today's Daily Mail interview and the strong emphasis

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"This week, Friends of the Earth said that the Chancellors' record on climate change had been "woefully inadequate". Will he confirm that carbon emissions are higher than when he took office and that the share of taxes collected by green taxes has fallen? Today's increase in air passenger duty should have replaced other taxes and not added to them. It proves that the right hon. Gentleman is more

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It's fascinating to see how a story like this grows. Now that the BBC and Iain Dale have the story it is likely that it will make it into the newspapers tomorrow. How big it hits will depend on what else is going on.It's worth asking is the image actually racist? I'd say no. To consider it as such it could only be on the grounds that the Black and White Minstrels are inherently racist and thus to

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... attack on David Cameron on Councillor Bob Piper's blog. Not much to say, it's not funny it's in dubious taste and will almost certainly make it into the mainstream media in the coming days.Two questions spring to mind will Councillor Bob survive (probably)? And how will Hazel Blears try and justify it?

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Much mocked at the time David Cameron's call for WH Smith to stop asking all customers at the point of purchase whether they would like to buy a half price Chocolate Orange really struck a chord with me .Putting aside the public health issues of the problems of obesity I am fully behind this because it's so incredibly irritating.For a time it did appear that Smith's had stopped, although they

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The Electoral Commission reports;But is it the Nick Hornby? It seems unlikely, I've read all his books and he struck me as being a bit of a lefty.However Nick Hornby has a disabled son as does David Cameron so it's conceivable they move in the same circles. Also I'm pretty sure I remember Nick Hornby speaking out against the closure of special schools which is something David Cameron has always

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ConservativeHome claims to be, friendly but critical to David Cameron. However the most recent ConservativeHome survey posed the question."OTHER than the Conservative Party, which of the following political parties in Britain is CLOSEST to your views?"Now I don't know what Tim Montgomerie (who is effectively Mr ConservativeHome) thought he was going to achieve with this question. But whatever it

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"If people attack me when I say that, when I say that some of these young people have had no relationships in their life, they've had no love in their life, they've had no-one caring for them, no-one teaching them the difference between right and wrong, if people criticise me for that I say look I'll go on saying that because everybody knows it's true." David Cameron

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The impact statement made by Adele Eastman the fiance of the murdered Tom ap Rhys Pryce is staggeringly moving. It is reproduced in full here and I recommend that you read it, although it will break your heart.The sheer awfulness of what she is going through can not be described. In her statement it is the incomprehension as to why anyone one would do such a thing that I found particularly

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I like it, it's pretty funny.

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The Polly Toynbee and Tosser inside issues this week are both examples of how the Conservative Party has learnt to effectively ride the currents of the media to get the coverage they need.Firstly by invoking Polly Toynbee a discussion on the need to address and recognise that relative poverty as as well as absolute poverty is a a serious problem was initiated. This has been the considered view

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If the Lib Dem's can get Sandi Toksvig to stand in Meon Valley they will have a very strong candidate. Regardless of her lefty views people will love to vote for someone they know and love from Call My Bluff etc. Such is her persona she could well end up being a sort of Lib Dem Boris Johnson Saying that I'm not sure she would be a very good as an MP for the Lib Dems, I suspect she would

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Priti Patel (picture on left) was selected by Witham last night to be their PPC. She will doubtless have a big impact because her sheer glamour will get her to the top of every TV producers wish list for guests. The East Anglian Daily Times has a nice piece on her selection.It's something of a puff piece but no less welcome for that. Subeditors across the land should welcome her entry into

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"At it's heart people have been driven out of there homes because of there ethnicity, because of there livelihood, ... the internationl community [must] act ... so all these people can go home - you ask them what what do they want to do - they want to go home, but only when there's peace."

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Well, well, well, Iain Dale reports Priti Patel has been selected for Witham.

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"And when we talk about foreign affairs, we don't just stand up for Gibraltar and Zimbabwe, but for the people of Darfur and sub-Saharan Africa who are living on less than a dollar a day and getting poorer while we are getting richer." David Cameorn speech to the Conservative Party Conference 2005Today DC arrived in Darfur for his most important overseas visit since he visited the Artic. Cameron

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Lot's of politicians are getting into blogging these days. They won't all be read as widely as Iain Dale or David Cameron are but there is a place for every one that is prepared to put a little of themselves into the blog.An example of a really interesting blog is Cardiff Bay Reflections written Glyn Davies the Conservative Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales.Gentle and full of gentle humour

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On Wednesday (Nov 15th 2006) the interim report of the Social Justice policy group on educational failure was discussed on the Simon Mayo radio programme. You can still listen to it as it was chosen for the Daily Mayo podcast.It featured amongst others A - lister and Director of the Centre for Social Justice group Philippa Stroud and centred on their conclusion that white working class boys are

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Is Sion Simon ok? His Youtube misadventure is misjudged but his interview on Sky was so much worse. Perhaps we should all note that in order to do comedy it is first necessary to have a sense of humour.

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In todays speech to the Kings Fund David Cameron said that the Conservative Party would be bringing forward a NHS Independence Bill to "offer a statutory framework that will take politicians out of the day to day running of the NHS."These are clever tactics again as introducing an actual Bill has lots of positive spin offs. Firstly it will give the story legs asit provides new angles, secondly it

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Make sure you check out the Conference Choice Debate featureing Boris Johnson and Matthew Parris. Its' the funniest thing I've seen in ages.Conservative Party - Conservative Party Conference 2006 - Bournemouth - Video Gallery

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The Conservative leadership has the right approach to tax policy. Make no mistake they understand and favour low taxes. They have said so repeatedly. Indeed at the Conservative Party Conference;David Cameron "Everyone in this hall, me included, knows that a low tax economy is a strong economy."George Osbourne "Sound money is the only sustainable path to lower taxes. It is also the bedrock upon

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Don't cry-ee, dont sigh-ee,there's a silver lining in the sky-ee,Bonsoir, old thing, cheer-i-o, chin, chin,Nah-poo, toodle-oo,Goodbye-ee.Tony Blair's premiership is to end with a whimper and he will be lucky to see out the next few weeks. A promise to be gone within the year makes Novemeber's Queens Speech irrelevant as he won't be there to see any promise through. My advice Tony is to keep up

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The more headbanging elements of the Tory blogosphere is getting it's knickers in a twist that the Conservative leadership is failing to advocate tax cuts with sufficient vigour.The distressing thing is that it suggests a failure to learn from the previous two elections which largely revolved around discussing the validity of our billions and billions of cuts/savings (depending who you were).

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This is the first in a series looking at the constituencies that are being released in the second phase of the selection process for parliamentary candidates for the Conservative Party for the next General Election.June 2005 General Election Result -Battersea Electorate 69548Martin Linton, Lab 16569 40.36%Dominic Schofield, Con 16406 39.96%Norsheen Bhatti, LDm 6006 14.63%Hugo Charlton, Grn 1735

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It's been a bumpy ride for David Cameron over the last few weeks. The leaked memos, the hug a hoodie speech (an interesting example of a thoughtful, eminently sensible speech being overshadowed by a soundbite that was never actually used), the alleged dilution of the Priority List, the delayed withdrawal from the EPP and the delay for the Mayoral Primary.Our opponents will seek to exploit this

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Everyone knows that premier league blogger Iain Dale is the former Conservative candidate for Norfolk North - which of course went spectacularly badly in 2005. He's still an aspiring MP though and would be the perfect candidate at the next election for the constituency of Maidstone and the Weald. Why? Well - as Lloyd Grossman might say - lets look at the evidence.1. Ann Widdecombe is the sitting

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The All Mod Cons blog intends to be a site dedicated to tracking the progress of David Cameron's Conservative Party. It will be written from the perspective of someone who wants it to succeed. It will hopefully be fun and will certainly be anoraky. It will also be anonymous because, well, everyone can use these Google these days, and who wants their potential future employers to be able to read

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