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10 years ago @ Conservative Home - WATCH: Sir John Major ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I posted an earlier reply which seems to have disappeared,so I will try again.I have had scant time for Sir John since the surreptitious deal with the IRA,but I took your advice and listened to the interview.
So he said UKIP was 'un-British' rather than anti-British and criticised their negativity and 'four-ale bar' politics.Even paying careful attention it sounded like Guardianista twaddle to me.
Just as well for my peace of mind I cannot vote in Rochester.

10 years ago @ Conservative Home - WATCH: Sir John Major ... · 2 replies · +1 points

If he said UKIP was anti-British he was both abusive and foolish.I am (still) a Tory,but this is simply twaddle.

10 years ago @ Conservative Home - Michael Kenny: The Con... · 0 replies · +1 points

The worst possible evil would be balkanisation of England by creating urban city statelets ,detached from,and ethnically significantly different to,the surrounding hinterlands.
If the aim is to create some sort of federal system,which might be the best prospect for holding the whole nation together,and England intact would completely unbalance such an arrangement.,then it would be preferable to revive the old divisions which still have some potency...Mercia ,Wessex,Northumbria,East Anglia etc..
Scotland and Wales have ancient faultlines too.

10 years ago @ Conservative Home - Ed Cox: Why English ci... · 0 replies · +1 points

Ill-considered constitutional change having having brought the UK to the verge of national extinction,all that the political and chattering classes can offer is squabbles about more rapid,radical and ill-considered change based on party advantage.
The basis for this change is the evidence of polls which influenced voting in Scotland,without even accurately predicting the result.One rogue poll .extrapolated by the chatterati almost destroyed a successful partnership of 300 years.And yet onwards the lemmings charge in response to more polls and without time for careful reflection.
A nation governed on this kind of basis has much deeper problems than West Lothian.

10 years ago @ Conservative Home - The new Scottish quest... · 0 replies · +1 points

There is no point in scapegoating the NO advocates before the votes are in,that just demoralizes the Unionists and adds grist to the SNP mill.The No people should perhaps sound a few louder British patriotic notes,but their general good sense and sincerity have been commendable.
I do agree that David Cameron has to take responsibility for this debacle,and debacle it is even if NO wins.So,of course does Salmond who has so bitterly divided his own people,.

10 years ago @ Conservative Home - The new Scottish quest... · 0 replies · +1 points

In a democracy No is No,and I guess,however sadly ,Yes is Yes..it is in nobody's interest to repeat the exercise at regular intervals.,whatever the outcome.
I agree entirely that the present government has made a hash of Scottish matters,including the referendum...and .,of course,not forgetting the Scottish regiments.But their combination of ineptitude and callow over-cleverness is hardly unique to Scottish affairs.
Incidentally Quebec almost voted YES in a similar referendum,but the narrow NO has been confirmed by events since.You should not assume a narrow no will be unsustainable in the future.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home - JP Floru: Jihadists sh... · 0 replies · +1 points

The laws of war,such as they are in practice when the enemy is someone like IS,were long established and compatible with execution for murder,treason and war crimes.
As for being an Islamic fundamentalist...I am simply endorsing,as a good conservative,the values of British society until virtually yesterday.No doubt there is some overlap of these with what every sincere Muslim believes,and most devout Christians come to that.That does not indicate I am either one or the other.
I am just that 'dangerous' anomaly, a sincere conservative who believes the appalling selfishness and self-indulgence of modern liberalism is sapping the will and strength of the nation to survive against what may well be an existential threat.And not just this present threat either.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home - JP Floru: Jihadists sh... · 2 replies · +1 points

No earthly reason we cant move back if it assists the struggle against this threat.We managed to restore the monarchy,the Book of Common Prayer,maypoles and the theatre when a much earlier generation had had a gutsfull of homegrown puritan fanatics with guns.
More seriously,liberalism has proven a dangerous failure,at least in its 20th century guise,and reversal of its more dangerous mistakes,is long overdue.By all means let us move on again this time by stepping back a pace or two.Cannot you see the damage culpably weak policies in morality,law and order,and education have done and continue to do to the very fabric of Western societies?
Condign punishment for heinous acts,after due warning and process,is not 'barbarism',but a weapon against it.It is that simple thing the lesser evil.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home - JP Floru: Jihadists sh... · 0 replies · +1 points

You are living in the late 20th century with its complacent liberalism.Things have changed dramatically,as a liberal U.S Defence Secretary has just noted.The West and all its values are facing what is potentially an existential threat.At need we will execute to protect ourselves.Now I agree with you that the threat may be averted,we will all devoutly hope so.But it is better to be prepared also for the worse,and currently more likely,scenario.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home - JP Floru: Jihadists sh... · 4 replies · +1 points

Britain wasn't civilized when it had the death penalty for heinous acts? Really?That would have come as a surprise to our ancestors...all the way back as far as our fathers and elder brothers.

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