Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Tories believe Murdochs can do no wrong!
The Conservatives believe Cameron and Osborne are fit people to run the country, naturally they would believe the Murdochs are fit to run such a company. Do any left in the party now hold a moral scruple between them?
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
How can Cameron and Osborne continue after Leveson today?
The first and last paragraphs of one report on evidence given by James Murdoch, at the inquiry today, linked here, was as follows:
The Murdoch's have owned British politics for decades it appears from all this mounting evidence - they are therefore apparently as culpable for the nation's decline as is the EU!James Murdoch met David Cameron 12 times while he was leader of the opposition, including four meetings also attended by Rebekah Brooks, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.....
Mr Murdoch confirmed he was "friendly" with Mr Osborne. He said he had one discussion with the Chancellor about News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB. Mr Murdoch said his conversation about the proposed buy-out of the satellite broadcaster with the Chancellor "would have just been to be grumpy about it taking a long time and being referred to (regulator) Ofcom, which I was very clear in public about at the same time".
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Cameron's dumping of his party
As Cameronism collapses, the following point was well made by Peter Oborne yesterday, linked here:
In private, Cameron’s circle make no secret about why he has chosen to govern through a tight-knit inner group. The leader and his Chancellor were the two favoured graduates from the exclusive and well-trained school of modernisers (initially led by Michael Portillo and Francis Maude) which captured the party at the turn of the century. This faction was transfixed by the success of Tony Blair – rather than being revolted by New Labour’s methods, they sought to copy them.
They enthusiastically embraced many of the worst aspects of Blairism: the obsession with very rich men; the divergence between public statements and private conduct; the preference for policy-making through private cabal; and the almost demented Blairite contempt for their own party members.
As Cameronism collapses, the following point was well made by Peter Oborne yesterday, linked here:
In private, Cameron’s circle make no secret about why he has chosen to govern through a tight-knit inner group. The leader and his Chancellor were the two favoured graduates from the exclusive and well-trained school of modernisers (initially led by Michael Portillo and Francis Maude) which captured the party at the turn of the century. This faction was transfixed by the success of Tony Blair – rather than being revolted by New Labour’s methods, they sought to copy them.
They enthusiastically embraced many of the worst aspects of Blairism: the obsession with very rich men; the divergence between public statements and private conduct; the preference for policy-making through private cabal; and the almost demented Blairite contempt for their own party members.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Nottingham Nasty Clarke under attack from his own MPs!
The report regarding the disgraceful situation over Abu Qatada is linked here.
My own view on the ECHR ruling was on Ironies Too, linked here.
The report regarding the disgraceful situation over Abu Qatada is linked here.
My own view on the ECHR ruling was on Ironies Too, linked here.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
PM Cameron's pledge for 2012 in his New Year Message:
"While a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in, many others are stuck on benefits, without hope or responsibility. So we will tackle excess in the City just as we're reforming welfare to make work pay and to support families."
PM Cameron's friend gets rewarded in New Year Honours List, as quoted from here:
Sunday Mail
DAVID CAMERON was under increasing pressure yesterday after a Tory donor – whose firm made at least £100million betting against Britain’s stricken banks – was knighted.
Paul Ruddock’s gong in the New Year Honours List was condemned by politicians and campaigners.
His hedge fund company Lansdowne Partners made around £100million by betting that Northern Rock’s share price would fall in 2007 and made millions more from moving shares in other troubled banks.
Ruddock, 52, who has donated more than £500,000 to the Tories since 2003, was knighted for services to the arts.
"While a few at the top get rewards that seem to have nothing to do with the risks they take or the effort they put in, many others are stuck on benefits, without hope or responsibility. So we will tackle excess in the City just as we're reforming welfare to make work pay and to support families."
PM Cameron's friend gets rewarded in New Year Honours List, as quoted from here:
Sunday Mail
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Paul Ruddock’s gong in the New Year Honours List was condemned by politicians and campaigners.
His hedge fund company Lansdowne Partners made around £100million by betting that Northern Rock’s share price would fall in 2007 and made millions more from moving shares in other troubled banks.
Ruddock, 52, who has donated more than £500,000 to the Tories since 2003, was knighted for services to the arts.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Tory Crisis Grows
The Slog now has seen reality, a quote from the latest comment:
The Slog now has seen reality, a quote from the latest comment:
The business case for departure from the EU is extremely powerful, but blocked at every turn by pols and bureaucrats who can talk only in terms of fear: how would we cope? where would we sell? What would the penalties be? Nobody can give all the answers to these weak-kneed questions, but what we can do is point out that with £118bn less to find each year (and another £40bn bill about to be dumped on our welcome mat) we'd be off to a flying start. The fact of the matter is that redistributionist Europe and its chocolate soldiers are history: the future lies in making added-value products, and selling them to a bottomless market called Asia.
Between mad pc on the one hand and the BNP on the other, there is a largely untapped area of the electorate called Decency & Common Sense. I think we have reached the stage now where one major defection of a senior Tory or a leading media figure to UKIP just might prove to be a game-changer. UKIP now has the same level of Opinion Poll Support as the LibDems. A joint Tory/UKIP ticket in winnable seats would produce a comfortable majority in many of them; but that would require wholesale regime change in the Conservative Party.
A teeterer becomes a quitter!
The linked post describes the anguish of a former Conservative, "Breaking up is hard to do" from Beneath the Wig Blog
The linked post describes the anguish of a former Conservative, "Breaking up is hard to do" from Beneath the Wig Blog
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
John Redwood's Contribution to the Commons Referendum debate 24/10/11
7.51 pm
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): There have been many powerful speeches already rightly saying that this debate is about democracy. Democracy is fundamental to the House—the mother of Parliaments, an example to the world—which has been through a bad time. It has been humbled by its failure to listen carefully enough to the people and because too many powers of self-government have been needlessly given away to Brussels. The people not only want us to listen, to have this great debate and to have a free vote to
express their opinions and views, but would like to feel that the people in this House, charged with the duty of governing, have the power to govern. They believe that the Government should come here and answer to us and that we, from both sides of the House, should hold them to account. If they do a good job, the public reward them in a general election, and if they do a bad job, they sack them.However,whatwe nowsee happening, because there is too much unaccountable European power, is the breakdown of the fabric of consent that is
fundamental to a democracy.
If hon. Members were to go to Greece today, they would see what happens when that consent starts to break down. Rich Greeks nowthink that theirGovernment
have no right to tax them because they are on autopilot from Europe and they do not like what it is doing, and poor Greeks think that the Government have no right
to remove some of their benefits because they think, again, that they are on autopilot from Brussels. In Portugal, Ireland or Slovakia, we see that the European
mess can change Governments—regardless, almost, of what the people think—but that when the people put in a new Government, it makes absolutely no difference to the policy that the country is following, because it is all on autopilot and has been preordained by the IMF, the bankers and, above all, the EUbureaucrats and assembled member states.
We need to ensure that we—those of us with a heart and a conscience—send a loud message to our constituents tonight that we are democrats, that we think that the public were right to demand this debate, that we admire the Prime Minister for making it possible through the petition system and that we would like the Whips to
withdraw so that a proper expression of opinion can be given. We want our Government to understand that if too many powers are taken away, we will no longer have the authority or opportunity to govern. Already, we have to say too often to our constituents, “I cannot help you with that because it is a European directive. I cannot assist you with this because it is an unaccountable European programme.” We can no longer change the law in the way that we wish because it is preordained by some Brussels decision.
This House was great when every law that applied to the British people was fought over in this Chamber and in Committee and satisfied the needs of the majority.
This House was great when the public knew that when they had had enough of rotten Government, they could change not just the people, but the policies they were following. This House was great when it had full control of all our money and did not have to give away tariffs and taxes to foreign powers to spend in ways of which we do not approve. We need to wake up. We need to do what the British people want us to do. We need to take responsibility for governing this country. We need to enact the laws. We need to debate and argue about it in here. Brussels has too much power. The British people need a say. Let us have a vote.
Mr Redwood was followed by Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby, Labour) which I also quote for Party balance and its content:
7.54 pm
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby) (Lab): I shall be voting for the motion tonight because I do not want to be part of what has become a three-party conspiracy
against the people. It is an abomination of democracy that the three parties, all of which have promised referendums and then denied the people those referendums
andwhich are nowforcing us to vote against a referendum, decided to impose three-lineWhips on their followers to vote for Europe. It is behaving like Europeans.
The EU is the construction of an EU elite that does not listen to the people: it knows where it wants to go, and it is not bothered what the people think. We cannot have that attitude in this country.
We have to show the people that they can have a referendum. When we had a referendum 36 years ago, people voted for a very different institution—for a
trading relationship—but it has now become a European monolith with ever-increasing powers. It is moving towards ever-closer union and is claiming to control economic policy as well. It is a very different institution and far more expensive. Budget contributions are £7 billion net a year, rising to £10 billion fairly soon. The CAP costs us £16.7 billion while the common fisheries policy costs
us £4.7 billion. The British people must have a say on whether they want to make those excessive contributions.
Why should the three parties be denying them? It would have been sensible for all three parties to agree to give us a free vote so that we could hear the sensible, clear, un-Whipped decision of Parliament. That might well have been in favour of a referendum, but I do not know. It would also have been sensible for the Government to have had a referendum in reserve because itwould have strengthened their position in the negotiations with Europe that the Foreign Secretary told us were to come, but they avoided that. I cannot tell how this euro
crisis, which is bedevilling us all, will work out—nor can the Prime Minister for that matter—but I question whether it is in our interest to keep the euro going. It
would be more sensible for Greece to devalue and come out, and perhaps for some of the other Club Med states to do the same, because it would allow them to expand and grow, whereas at present they face 10 years of deflation. That would also put up the exchange rate of the German—or northern—euro, so that itwould become less competitive and take a smaller share of our markets.
That would be a logical outcome. We are going to struggle to use the big bazooka, as the Prime Minister put it, to keep Humpty Dumpty together—I am not sure how we would do that—but we have to bear it in mind that the people of Europe also
want referendums. There are a series of policy studies based on the 2009 referendum showing that in Europe, 63% of people—from a sample of 27,000—wanted any future decisions to be taken by a referendum. This has
been an interesting debate. It has been interesting how little praise for Europe there has been. It was interesting, too, that the Foreign Secretary defended Europe by praising with faint damns and turned down the weapon that the House was offering. I hope that we have tonight a big vote in favour of the motion. It would send a signal to Europe of what the people of this country think—not the elite, but the people—and would send asignal to the people that they can trust us and that we have their interests at heart.
7.51 pm
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): There have been many powerful speeches already rightly saying that this debate is about democracy. Democracy is fundamental to the House—the mother of Parliaments, an example to the world—which has been through a bad time. It has been humbled by its failure to listen carefully enough to the people and because too many powers of self-government have been needlessly given away to Brussels. The people not only want us to listen, to have this great debate and to have a free vote to
express their opinions and views, but would like to feel that the people in this House, charged with the duty of governing, have the power to govern. They believe that the Government should come here and answer to us and that we, from both sides of the House, should hold them to account. If they do a good job, the public reward them in a general election, and if they do a bad job, they sack them.However,whatwe nowsee happening, because there is too much unaccountable European power, is the breakdown of the fabric of consent that is
fundamental to a democracy.
If hon. Members were to go to Greece today, they would see what happens when that consent starts to break down. Rich Greeks nowthink that theirGovernment
have no right to tax them because they are on autopilot from Europe and they do not like what it is doing, and poor Greeks think that the Government have no right
to remove some of their benefits because they think, again, that they are on autopilot from Brussels. In Portugal, Ireland or Slovakia, we see that the European
mess can change Governments—regardless, almost, of what the people think—but that when the people put in a new Government, it makes absolutely no difference to the policy that the country is following, because it is all on autopilot and has been preordained by the IMF, the bankers and, above all, the EUbureaucrats and assembled member states.
We need to ensure that we—those of us with a heart and a conscience—send a loud message to our constituents tonight that we are democrats, that we think that the public were right to demand this debate, that we admire the Prime Minister for making it possible through the petition system and that we would like the Whips to
withdraw so that a proper expression of opinion can be given. We want our Government to understand that if too many powers are taken away, we will no longer have the authority or opportunity to govern. Already, we have to say too often to our constituents, “I cannot help you with that because it is a European directive. I cannot assist you with this because it is an unaccountable European programme.” We can no longer change the law in the way that we wish because it is preordained by some Brussels decision.
This House was great when every law that applied to the British people was fought over in this Chamber and in Committee and satisfied the needs of the majority.
This House was great when the public knew that when they had had enough of rotten Government, they could change not just the people, but the policies they were following. This House was great when it had full control of all our money and did not have to give away tariffs and taxes to foreign powers to spend in ways of which we do not approve. We need to wake up. We need to do what the British people want us to do. We need to take responsibility for governing this country. We need to enact the laws. We need to debate and argue about it in here. Brussels has too much power. The British people need a say. Let us have a vote.
Mr Redwood was followed by Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby, Labour) which I also quote for Party balance and its content:
7.54 pm
Austin Mitchell (Great Grimsby) (Lab): I shall be voting for the motion tonight because I do not want to be part of what has become a three-party conspiracy
against the people. It is an abomination of democracy that the three parties, all of which have promised referendums and then denied the people those referendums
andwhich are nowforcing us to vote against a referendum, decided to impose three-lineWhips on their followers to vote for Europe. It is behaving like Europeans.
The EU is the construction of an EU elite that does not listen to the people: it knows where it wants to go, and it is not bothered what the people think. We cannot have that attitude in this country.
We have to show the people that they can have a referendum. When we had a referendum 36 years ago, people voted for a very different institution—for a
trading relationship—but it has now become a European monolith with ever-increasing powers. It is moving towards ever-closer union and is claiming to control economic policy as well. It is a very different institution and far more expensive. Budget contributions are £7 billion net a year, rising to £10 billion fairly soon. The CAP costs us £16.7 billion while the common fisheries policy costs
us £4.7 billion. The British people must have a say on whether they want to make those excessive contributions.
Why should the three parties be denying them? It would have been sensible for all three parties to agree to give us a free vote so that we could hear the sensible, clear, un-Whipped decision of Parliament. That might well have been in favour of a referendum, but I do not know. It would also have been sensible for the Government to have had a referendum in reserve because itwould have strengthened their position in the negotiations with Europe that the Foreign Secretary told us were to come, but they avoided that. I cannot tell how this euro
crisis, which is bedevilling us all, will work out—nor can the Prime Minister for that matter—but I question whether it is in our interest to keep the euro going. It
would be more sensible for Greece to devalue and come out, and perhaps for some of the other Club Med states to do the same, because it would allow them to expand and grow, whereas at present they face 10 years of deflation. That would also put up the exchange rate of the German—or northern—euro, so that itwould become less competitive and take a smaller share of our markets.
That would be a logical outcome. We are going to struggle to use the big bazooka, as the Prime Minister put it, to keep Humpty Dumpty together—I am not sure how we would do that—but we have to bear it in mind that the people of Europe also
want referendums. There are a series of policy studies based on the 2009 referendum showing that in Europe, 63% of people—from a sample of 27,000—wanted any future decisions to be taken by a referendum. This has
been an interesting debate. It has been interesting how little praise for Europe there has been. It was interesting, too, that the Foreign Secretary defended Europe by praising with faint damns and turned down the weapon that the House was offering. I hope that we have tonight a big vote in favour of the motion. It would send a signal to Europe of what the people of this country think—not the elite, but the people—and would send asignal to the people that they can trust us and that we have their interests at heart.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
THREATEN YOUR MP FOR 27/10/11
Elected MPs are the only voters on 27th October able to affect the ongoing subjugation of the UK by the non-democratic European Union.
As Britain's democracy has been almost entirely destroyed - most MPs, in pursuit of their political careers, will most likely tend to put the interests of the EU (where they no doubt see their future paymasters principally based) well ahead of the interests of their present Westminster orientated constituents.
British voters therefore have only the period between now and the vote on 27th October to convince their own MP, that voting against offering the public a referendum on Britain's continued EU membership, will cost them YOUR vote in YOUR constituency at coming elections.
PLEDGE TO SWAMP YOUR CONSTITUENCY WITH FLYERS DETAILING THEIR VOTE DURING ALL FUTURE ELECTION CAMPAIGNS!
As the EU grows ever less popular, ever more expensive and ever more restrictive - THUS EVER MORE HATED - their chances of re-election, if voting against a referendum on 27th October 2011, will grow less and less each passing year!
Read of the panic already sweeping the Tory bencjes as re-selection looms for the reduction in MP numbers, by Paul Goodman on Conservative Home this morning, linked here.
Friday, October 14, 2011
More apparatchiks join the British Government
Link to the former seat of Britain's leaders, from here.
the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, currently Secretary of State for Transport, to become Secretary of State for Defence;
Justine Greening MP, currently Economic Secretary at HM Treasury, to become Secretary of State for Transport;
Chloe Smith MP, currently an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons, to become Economic Secretary at HM Treasury;
Greg Hands MP to become an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons.
LIFE EXPERIENCE - ZERO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - NIL
Link to the former seat of Britain's leaders, from here.
the Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, currently Secretary of State for Transport, to become Secretary of State for Defence;
Justine Greening MP, currently Economic Secretary at HM Treasury, to become Secretary of State for Transport;
Chloe Smith MP, currently an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons, to become Economic Secretary at HM Treasury;Greg Hands MP to become an Assistant Whip in the House of Commons.LIFE EXPERIENCE - ZERO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - NIL
The Fox resignation - Time to Turn Right
The Coalition Governement, now entirely lacks any Cabinet Minister, who can fairly claim to represent Conservative values, (with the possible exception of IDS).
Cameron's next step, if it represents a further ditching of everything once held dear by his party, can no longer offer a home for the likes of John Redwood, Bill Cash and Douglas Carswell!
The Coalition Governement, now entirely lacks any Cabinet Minister, who can fairly claim to represent Conservative values, (with the possible exception of IDS).
Cameron's next step, if it represents a further ditching of everything once held dear by his party, can no longer offer a home for the likes of John Redwood, Bill Cash and Douglas Carswell!
Monday, September 05, 2011
David Cameron
The following is the end of an accurate post on the present ste of play on Britain's thoroughly odious PM from The Slog, linked here:
The following is the end of an accurate post on the present ste of play on Britain's thoroughly odious PM from The Slog, linked here:
David Cameron's real persona is thus the obvious contender for this weekend's SUITF....a new feature here that I at least am beginning to enjoy writing. He is an empty till, ready and willing to ring up a sale of anything to anyone. He is youthful and baby faced. He is Dorian Gray - and somewhere, alone in the attic of 10 Downing Street now that Mrs Brownchester has been set free, is a creepy-crawly painting of the oily toff who somehow lucked into the leadership of the Conservative Party.
But if you find the use of the diabolical Dorian to be unfair and/or over the top as a parallel, ask yourself this: what would David Cameron privately not approve of? Coke snorting? Phone hacking? Leaving a mentally ill PM in office in order to have an easy task in a future election? Chucking pot plants out of Oxford windows? Insider trading? The taking and raping of Turkish democracy? Working with Gaddafi's intelligence loons?
Either way, I'm making an appeal to all readers: this relatively quiet Sunday evening before cold market reality finally hits us at the end of summer, please do all you can to get #DorianGraymoron trending on Twitter.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Cameron on the Riots in the Sunday Express!
Amazingly, Downing Street press office, has tweeted this article so that the world beyond the Sunday Express can appreciate the complete irrelevance of the British Prime Minister, read here.
As the EU faces complete melt down it is the following that David Cameron now sees as his nation's priority:
Amazingly, Downing Street press office, has tweeted this article so that the world beyond the Sunday Express can appreciate the complete irrelevance of the British Prime Minister, read here.
As the EU faces complete melt down it is the following that David Cameron now sees as his nation's priority:
We are looking at creating our own British Bill of Rights. We are going to fight in Europe for changes to the way the European Court works and we will fight to ensure people understand the real scope of these rights and do not use them as cover for rules or excuses that fly in the face of common sense.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Lord Howard of the Night
A legalized looter of the public purse (sub-title added at 13:10 BST with this link to a more perceptive comment on the riots from Der Spiegel International, linked here)
Read what the former Tory leader wants you to read from here.
Watch the man himself, see the venom - the thirst for vengeance - from last evening's Channel 4 news debate on jail sentences for the looters in last week's riots - or is his reaction and body language an indication of fear?
All that from a politician whose main accomplishment has been to saddle the nation with George Osborne MP as Chancellor of the Exchequer, who even yesterday was happily justifying Britain's economy being subject to rule by the 17 ex-nations of the Euro Group under the control of a Belgian. Watch him from here on Sky News and read of his record as Chancellor from here.
But this posting is not about Osborne, it is about Michael Howard, this same Michael Howard who in the Daily Telegraph revealed scandal over MPs theft of public funds from the British taxpayers, (known as the 'expenses scandal') was revealed to have claimed £17,000 on woodland management costs, read here.
On top of that, as further revealed by the same paper on the following day, read here, he was able to defray some £44,000 of his party's constituency office expenses, thanks to holding the elected position of MP.
Note how often Howard refers to fear! What else does his past still contain that in spite of sitting pretty in the House of Lords, he seems so uncomfortable in his own skin? Is it that he continues on the public pay roll, in spite of his record of practically zero accomplishments during an entire life's career!
(Note - If you do play the video watch the next item as well on the acquittal of several senior police officers by the IPCC, which also speaks volumes on the state of Britain's Justice system and how it presently operates!)
A legalized looter of the public purse (sub-title added at 13:10 BST with this link to a more perceptive comment on the riots from Der Spiegel International, linked here)
Read what the former Tory leader wants you to read from here.
Watch the man himself, see the venom - the thirst for vengeance - from last evening's Channel 4 news debate on jail sentences for the looters in last week's riots - or is his reaction and body language an indication of fear?
All that from a politician whose main accomplishment has been to saddle the nation with George Osborne MP as Chancellor of the Exchequer, who even yesterday was happily justifying Britain's economy being subject to rule by the 17 ex-nations of the Euro Group under the control of a Belgian. Watch him from here on Sky News and read of his record as Chancellor from here.
But this posting is not about Osborne, it is about Michael Howard, this same Michael Howard who in the Daily Telegraph revealed scandal over MPs theft of public funds from the British taxpayers, (known as the 'expenses scandal') was revealed to have claimed £17,000 on woodland management costs, read here.
On top of that, as further revealed by the same paper on the following day, read here, he was able to defray some £44,000 of his party's constituency office expenses, thanks to holding the elected position of MP.
Note how often Howard refers to fear! What else does his past still contain that in spite of sitting pretty in the House of Lords, he seems so uncomfortable in his own skin? Is it that he continues on the public pay roll, in spite of his record of practically zero accomplishments during an entire life's career!
(Note - If you do play the video watch the next item as well on the acquittal of several senior police officers by the IPCC, which also speaks volumes on the state of Britain's Justice system and how it presently operates!)
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Ex News of the World columnist defends Coulson's Chequers invite!
Well he would, would he not, see The Indpendent, this morning, here, from which this classic quote:
Mr Hague said he was not embarrassed "in any way" by the Government's relationship with News International executives and defended the Prime Minister's decision to entertain Mr Coulson, the former News of the World editor, at his Buckinghamshire retreat in March.
Hague used his column I recall, during the Michael Howard election campaign to plead pressure of otherwork other lucrative commitments, as an excuse for not then campaigning. So much for this individuals concern for either country or party!
Well he would, would he not, see The Indpendent, this morning, here, from which this classic quote:
Mr Hague said he was not embarrassed "in any way" by the Government's relationship with News International executives and defended the Prime Minister's decision to entertain Mr Coulson, the former News of the World editor, at his Buckinghamshire retreat in March.
Hague used his column I recall, during the Michael Howard election campaign to plead pressure of other
Friday, July 15, 2011
Brooks Resigns, what of Cameron?
The Daily Mirror is out for Cameron this morning, read here which states:
The Daily Mirror is out for Cameron this morning, read here which states:
DAVID Cameron’s pledge to be more open about his dealings with media moguls was shattered yesterday.
The Prime Minister is facing mounting demands to come clean about a dinner he had with News International chief Rebekah Brooks over Christmas.
Just days before the dinner, the PM had stripped Business Secretary Vince Cable of his responsibility for scrutinising the BSkyB bid and given it to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a cheer leader for Mr Murdoch.
Although the PM promised “greater transparency”, his spokeswoman refused to say whether the BSkyB bid was discussed at the dinner, and added: “It was a private engagement.”
The Prime Minister is facing mounting demands to come clean about a dinner he had with News International chief Rebekah Brooks over Christmas.
Just days before the dinner, the PM had stripped Business Secretary Vince Cable of his responsibility for scrutinising the BSkyB bid and given it to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, a cheer leader for Mr Murdoch.
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Sunday, July 10, 2011
Italy reported to be seeking Bail Out by Die Welt
Britain needs to be preparing for the coming economic tsunami by appointing a Prime Minister of probity NOW! Just as I have been blogging all weekend, here on this blog, on Ironies Too and on Orphans of Liberty.
If Italy goes, read here, so too does the EU!
IDS is one of the few in Cabinet with the right to take over the Tory Party and the track record to show he knows from whence the greatest dange comes!
Von Rompuy has called a meeting of the unelected leeches at the top of the EU, it is not now their concern for they are the ones who have created the wreck!
Britain needs to be preparing for the coming economic tsunami by appointing a Prime Minister of probity NOW! Just as I have been blogging all weekend, here on this blog, on Ironies Too and on Orphans of Liberty.
If Italy goes, read here, so too does the EU!
IDS is one of the few in Cabinet with the right to take over the Tory Party and the track record to show he knows from whence the greatest dange comes!
Von Rompuy has called a meeting of the unelected leeches at the top of the EU, it is not now their concern for they are the ones who have created the wreck!
Friday, July 08, 2011
Cameron, Telegraph and YouGov in leadership election victory
My posting on this blog from Saturday 12th November 2005, when I first twigged there was something peculiar about the selective leaking of MP voting intentions and Opinion Polling on the Conservative Party leadership election, which put Cameron in charge, to face eventual and well predicted election defeat, is repeated in full below, as it is clearly time for the grass root Conservative Party members to recall how they were delivered into his hands!
My posting on this blog from Saturday 12th November 2005, when I first twigged there was something peculiar about the selective leaking of MP voting intentions and Opinion Polling on the Conservative Party leadership election, which put Cameron in charge, to face eventual and well predicted election defeat, is repeated in full below, as it is clearly time for the grass root Conservative Party members to recall how they were delivered into his hands!
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Tories heading for oblivion?
If the headline article in the online edition of the Daily Telegraph is to be believed the Conservative Party is doomed as David Cameron, the media darling who will become its mauled and mangled victim by the next General Election were he to become Party Leader, is reported to have opened an early and large lead over rival David Davis in the leadership contest.
Such are the results of a YouGov poll which has been so manipulatively reported as to condemn the Telegraph to the lowest possible level of even present day journalism. The report may be read from this link.
To try to grasp the degree of distortion it is necessary to recall the basis on which YouGov polls. Anybody can join YouGov and participate in those polls as they may wish. Is it really likely as the report seems to imply that one third of those conservative party members who have already voted are signed up as YouGov contributors. Unlike most polls published as far as I can find there is nowhere any reference to the size of the sample. Just how many conservative party members who have already voted could have been polled - it must be an incredibly small number unless there was some collusion or identification of names of those who had voted from party sources, any names thus provided could then well have been tilted towards the results desired by the Telegraph group owners and editors and/or the party establishment.
Evidence of the desired outcome of the senior party hierarchy comes later in the same report which states:
If the headline article in the online edition of the Daily Telegraph is to be believed the Conservative Party is doomed as David Cameron, the media darling who will become its mauled and mangled victim by the next General Election were he to become Party Leader, is reported to have opened an early and large lead over rival David Davis in the leadership contest.
Such are the results of a YouGov poll which has been so manipulatively reported as to condemn the Telegraph to the lowest possible level of even present day journalism. The report may be read from this link.
To try to grasp the degree of distortion it is necessary to recall the basis on which YouGov polls. Anybody can join YouGov and participate in those polls as they may wish. Is it really likely as the report seems to imply that one third of those conservative party members who have already voted are signed up as YouGov contributors. Unlike most polls published as far as I can find there is nowhere any reference to the size of the sample. Just how many conservative party members who have already voted could have been polled - it must be an incredibly small number unless there was some collusion or identification of names of those who had voted from party sources, any names thus provided could then well have been tilted towards the results desired by the Telegraph group owners and editors and/or the party establishment.
Evidence of the desired outcome of the senior party hierarchy comes later in the same report which states:
"Anne Maine, the MP for St Albans, who formerly supported Mr Davis, said she was now backing Mr Cameron, taking his support to 107 MPs - well over half the 198-strong parliamentary party.
Michael Ancram, the party's deputy leader, said the backing of a clear majority of Tory MPs was an important signal to party members."
The Gaderene rush to support the dubious, media reported front-runner by sitting MPs and their European counterparts is understandable when looking at the calibre and motives of the present elected party and remembering that were Cameron to win at only 39 years of age and given his apparent lack of policies and therefore presumably either character or principles, future advancement within the party is likely to be lost pretty much forever as far as the present entire elected members are concerned.
The Gaderene rush to support the dubious, media reported front-runner by sitting MPs and their European counterparts is understandable when looking at the calibre and motives of the present elected party and remembering that were Cameron to win at only 39 years of age and given his apparent lack of policies and therefore presumably either character or principles, future advancement within the party is likely to be lost pretty much forever as far as the present entire elected members are concerned.
The announcement by the comparatively youthful Owen Paterson MP for David Davis is particularly commendable in this regard.
This blog quite correctly predicted the outcome of a Michael Howard leadership takeover - I feel equally certain that if the Tories go for Cameron then it will be the end of their party. How best to then restore decency and democracy to British politics will then become an even trickier problem.
Heading for oblivion indeed....
...How best to then restore decency and democracy to British politics will then become an even trickier problem.
...How best to then restore decency and democracy to British politics will then become an even trickier problem.
The title and end of that posting are repeated above! Party members this weekend must let their MPs know what they now must do. This blogger made his suggestion, first thing this morning, on this blog!
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