en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/5366638 Comments by Skandiman https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2019/12/watch-johnson-visits-sedgefield-to-thank-the-new-conservative-supporters.html#IDComment1084548444 Except Mansfield was won on the same 'loaned vote' principal in 2017 - ir now has a 21,000 tory majority. They took a long time to change their mind and their vote - Labour will have to work hard to be taken seriously by the voters here again. Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:30:15 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2019/12/watch-johnson-visits-sedgefield-to-thank-the-new-conservative-supporters.html#IDComment1084548444 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/06/mohammed-amin-the-government-should-now-agree-a-brexit-negotiating-position-with-the-other-main-political-parties-and-others.html#IDComment1045632091 As the putative Chairman of the Conservative Party's 'Fed up with being told what Brexit means by people who do well out of Europe' Forum I say that if the Party thinks this election was bad news wait and see what happens if we try to renege on the full Brexit the British people voted for. Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:38:12 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/06/mohammed-amin-the-government-should-now-agree-a-brexit-negotiating-position-with-the-other-main-political-parties-and-others.html#IDComment1045632091 http://www.conservativehome.com/video/2017/05/watch-ici-londres-in-the-brexit-talks-we-need-politicians-who-stand-up-for-britain-not-for-brussels-argues-daniel-hannan.html#IDComment1044443991 "Most don't seem to have exhibited any real understanding of the EU or of our predicament" You may think there is a predicament but I doubt most people do - our predicament is that we ever joined the thing Wed, 31 May 2017 14:24:49 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/video/2017/05/watch-ici-londres-in-the-brexit-talks-we-need-politicians-who-stand-up-for-britain-not-for-brussels-argues-daniel-hannan.html#IDComment1044443991 http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2017/04/should-cameron-campaign-for-the-conservatives-in-the-coming-election.html#IDComment1042481219 No. His reputation was shot to hell by the referendum and years of vacillation/lying over issues the country felt were important. No reflected glory for Cameron, just shuffle off mate, 10 years was far too long Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:00:49 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2017/04/should-cameron-campaign-for-the-conservatives-in-the-coming-election.html#IDComment1042481219 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/03/mohammed-amin-the-government-must-go-to-the-ecj-to-establish-whether-article-50-notice-is-revokable.html#IDComment1040615035 Who cares if it is revocable or not? We are leaving. They could offer the best deal in the world but we are leaving. I don't like the democratic deficit and don't want to remain part of a disgusting German Ponzi scheme that is destroying the lives of young people across Southern Europe. Art. 50 letter should read 'we quit, effective immediately'. Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:04:35 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/03/mohammed-amin-the-government-must-go-to-the-ecj-to-establish-whether-article-50-notice-is-revokable.html#IDComment1040615035 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/03/heidi-allen-and-david-burrowes-the-dubs-scheme-must-not-end-prematurely.html#IDComment1040027285 It's appalling, it's tragic It's heartbreaking I want to weep How did we allow this to happen? Heidi Allen really is a Conservative MP? Tue, 7 Mar 2017 13:26:59 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2017/03/heidi-allen-and-david-burrowes-the-dubs-scheme-must-not-end-prematurely.html#IDComment1040027285 http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2017/02/if-carwell-is-expelled-from-ukip-should-the-conservatives-take-him-back.html#IDComment1039671050 Absolutely not The guy ratted in a pretty underhand way and now appears to want to re-rat. He had little sense of public loyalty to the Conservatives when he was a Tory MP and has shown little loyalty for the Party that took him in. He appears to be the founder and only member of the Douglas Carswell Party Come on Clacton, you can do better than that Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:49:37 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2017/02/if-carwell-is-expelled-from-ukip-should-the-conservatives-take-him-back.html#IDComment1039671050 http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2017/02/nicky-morgan-just-what-does-the-way-in-which-were-dealing-with-refugee-children-say-about-our-values-as-a-party.html#IDComment1038809985 Ms Morgan, if you seriously believe that your constituent was a Tory who had become disillusioned then I suggest that you book yourself on one of the Party's canvass training courses immediately or, better still, leave professional politics completely as you clearly have no aptitude for it. Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:06:29 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2017/02/nicky-morgan-just-what-does-the-way-in-which-were-dealing-with-refugee-children-say-about-our-values-as-a-party.html#IDComment1038809985 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036742252 My ilk? How quaint!! You are a 90 y.o retired Indian Army Colonel and I claim my reward! Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:32:57 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036742252 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036724015 Anyone over the age of 20 who tells me that they know what 'young people' want is deluded. 15 year olds regard 19 year olds as ancient As young people grow up they change - and none of us know in what direction. Thanks for calling me and millions of others vile by the way - very helpful language in a democracy and one of the reasons that Remain lost - keep it up! Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:16:50 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036724015 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036649456 So you wish, but wishing doesn't make it so. Guessing what 18 year olds will do tomorrow is a fool's game, let alone what they will be doing or thinking in 20 years time Tue, 3 Jan 2017 15:55:17 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2017/01/who-are-the-39-labour-mps-whom-the-fabians-fear-could-lose-their-seats.html#IDComment1036649456 http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/12/peter-golds-requiring-id-at-polling-stations-is-vital-to-tackling-election-fraud.html#IDComment1036383028 And the same problems would then occur with the ID card system - all we would have achieved is to have spent a fortune creating a new industry for crooks to get rich on Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:14:06 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/12/peter-golds-requiring-id-at-polling-stations-is-vital-to-tackling-election-fraud.html#IDComment1036383028 http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/12/peter-golds-requiring-id-at-polling-stations-is-vital-to-tackling-election-fraud.html#IDComment1036345484 ID cards would be tackling the symptoms and not the cause. Elections in this country were pretty clean until the uncontrolled flood of unemployable economic migrants under Blair and, sadly, Cameron When government gets control of our borders, stops issuing NI numbers like sweets and throws out the millions of overstayed students, bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants then they can talk to me about tagging free-born UK Citizens like cattle. Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:17:56 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2016/12/peter-golds-requiring-id-at-polling-stations-is-vital-to-tackling-election-fraud.html#IDComment1036345484 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/12/requiring-id-to-vote-is-sensible-but-we-also-urgently-need-postal-vote-reform.html#IDComment1035875620 We all agree that clamping down on oter fraud is good, but we run the risk of over-complicating a system that has served well for a very long time to deal with highly localised corruption. Instead of trying to stamp out fraud 'retail' why not tackle it wholesale? Areas with a strong, independent and efficient electoral department would stop most voter fraud dead in its tracks - which is why it is only really a problem in inner city, one-party hellholes. Anyone applying for multiple postal votes from voters at different addresses to go to one address in my borough would result in the ERO calling in the police - so no one tries it on. As for photo voter id, nice idea, but millions of elderly never leave their houses, have no relatives etc - are we to disenfranchise them nationwide to target a serious, but highly localised problem? Ensure strong independent ERO's in dodgy boroughs and the postal voting and voter registration problems largely vanish. Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:20:22 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/12/requiring-id-to-vote-is-sensible-but-we-also-urgently-need-postal-vote-reform.html#IDComment1035875620 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/12/requiring-id-to-vote-is-sensible-but-we-also-urgently-need-postal-vote-reform.html#IDComment1035875181 No, what we would have is a bungling bureaucratic system, making huge mistakes in dealing with the data; have given the green light to every retailer, utility and public service to demand ID at every transaction and built a huge and profitable ID fraud industry, churning out ID cards like confetti. If you put the word IT database and Government in the same sentence you know what we get....... Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:09:06 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/12/requiring-id-to-vote-is-sensible-but-we-also-urgently-need-postal-vote-reform.html#IDComment1035875181 http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/11/iain-dale-jo-coxs-murder-was-also-an-attack-on-the-state-which-is-why-a-whole-life-tariff-for-her-killer-was-right.html#IDComment1034286843 Remarks which were in fact not made and the misreporting of which led news outlets to publish apologies and retractions over succeeding days. Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:26:18 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/11/iain-dale-jo-coxs-murder-was-also-an-attack-on-the-state-which-is-why-a-whole-life-tariff-for-her-killer-was-right.html#IDComment1034286843 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/08/brexit-means-politics.html#IDComment1028747847 People who shouted Banzai in recent history were known for 2 things, never changing their minds whatever the reality and hysterically charging their their opponents and getting shot. Apt choice of name mate - you lost, you are not getting another referendum and we are leaving Thu, 25 Aug 2016 09:51:13 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/08/brexit-means-politics.html#IDComment1028747847 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/08/brexit-means-politics.html#IDComment1028739693 Sounds like a cleverly worded plan for a wholesale renegociation - but we didn't vote for that, we voted to leave the EU. We don't 'want' an EU of nation states or any other configuration because it is none of our business anymore - what they chose to do is up to them; and we don't need to negotiate to keep access to the single market since, if the worst tariff rate they can impose outside is your quoted 0.3%, who cares? As for free movement, we will now decide who comes in and who goes out so we don't need to talk about that either. Out, out now and don't look back. Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:18:45 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/08/brexit-means-politics.html#IDComment1028739693 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/a-very-ahem-courageous-reshuffle-prime-minister.html#IDComment1026008628 How do you know she hasn't? The days of Government braying everything they do through loudspeakers like demented donkeys is over I think. I have never liked May, but I am beginning to think I might have got her wrong and am interested to see if she carries on in the same excellent vein. Maybe we all should. Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:14:33 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/a-very-ahem-courageous-reshuffle-prime-minister.html#IDComment1026008628 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/live-blog-theresa-may-prime-minister-to-be.html#IDComment1025739923 If everyone who said they were leaving the party during the life of Con Home actually did Party Membership would be a negative number. May has a majority of 17 and 147 outers in her party - and she cant call an election so who has the whip hand there? A thriving membership of Brexiteers will keep the remain MP's a bit more subdued since they all have to be re-selected - lots to play for Foxy, don't resign or you undermine brexit!! Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:23:36 +0000 http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/07/live-blog-theresa-may-prime-minister-to-be.html#IDComment1025739923