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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Lewis becomes the firs... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lewis's friendship with Bercow dates back to the 1990s, when they were both EU-sceptic Thatcherites. Lewis cannot be held responsible for Bercow's subsequent actions.

Lewis was treated appallingly by Cameron and his cronies. Having put in 9 years of thankless work as a frontbench Opposition Spokesman, he was sacked after the 2010 General Election to make way for Anna Soubry, of all people. Julian Lewis is undoubtedly the best Armed Forces Minister we never had.

The fact that he has spend the last 10 years on the back benches watching Ministerial offices being filled by the likes of Soubry and Grayling says everything about how our Party does things.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Lewis becomes the firs... · 0 replies · +1 points

Having never held ministerial office, his chances of a Peerage are minuscule.

By the time of the next GE in 2024, he will be well over 70, and will have been an MP for over 25 years, so is probably planning to retire then anyway. Unless he has drastically changed his ways very recently, he is the last person on earth to care about getting a Knighthood.

So the usual vestiges of status and political currency do no apply to him. The ISC Chairmanship could well be the job for which he has spent all of his life and career preparing. Particularly as we need to formulate new ways of dealing with the ongoing threats posed by China and Russia. Likewise the new world-wide opportunities available to us now we are getting shot of the corrupt and failing EU institutions.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Bailey must stand · 2 replies · +1 points

Bailey was not selected too early. He was selected in a contest which was deliberately rigged by CCHQ to ensure that he won.

They way they rigged it was to ensure that the other 2 candidates on the ballot were individuals who had no chance of beating him (Andrew Boff - too many enemies, and Joy Morrissey - then totally unknown), having previously eliminated all other applicants who might have stood a chance of beating him (like Andrew Rosindell, amongst others)

They did exactly the same in the pre-Boris era to make sure that Steve "Shagger" Norris was the candidate then - what a stunning triumph that was. Other applicants, particularly Nikki Page (then a Conservative Councillor) gave eloquent testimony of blatant pro-Norris bias at the interview stage then.

It is getting very late in the day to change horses now. Our energies would be better employed in cleaning up CCHQ.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Philip Davies: Better ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Better Off Out campaign is not the first time that the Freedom Association has been ahead of the game.

In the 1970s they campaigned for trade union reform, and all the clever people in the Tory party said that it was crazy to even think of it, never mind attempt it.

The Freedom Association has been campaigning almost as long for reform of the BBC. We may yet see some progress there as well - www.tfa.net/axe_the_tv_tax

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Chloe Westley: It's th... · 1 reply · +1 points

I had never previously imagined it possible for a high-speed railway to produce a slow-motion rail-crash.

That, sadly, is what we are seeing here. Costs have doubled before the contractors have turned a clod. The over-runs have hardly started.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Boles quits - "... · 0 replies · +1 points

He has voted consistently for the Withdrawal Agreement that keeps us in, keeps us as permanent rule-takers, commits us to paying countless billions we do not owe, and destroys any chance of making trade deals in the wider world where growth is taking place.

5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Damage limi... · 0 replies · +1 points

This time last century, Britain's most charismatic politician was nicknamed "The Goat".

100 years on from Lloyd George's premiership, the name may yet return . . .

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - 42 per cent and no maj... · 0 replies · +1 points

When Margaret Thatcher made the case for conservatism, she was widely condemned by many senior people in the Party at that time as an "ideologue", and for spouting "dogma". The concept that there is any such thing as conservative principles at all was (and still is) widely rejected. The only acceptable belief was in "pragmatism". That is, being completely unprincipled, short-termist, and taking the line of least resistance.

The situation is vastly worse now. When I told a senior Party official recently that we should promote ourselves as the party of freedom, he stared at me blankly. The current Party leadership has not laid a glove on Corbyn, or challenged any of his views, which is why his extremism is gaining acceptance by default. He is setting the agenda on a daily basis - the PM, Cabinet, and Party Chairman are completely asleep on the job.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Douglas Carswell: Thos... · 0 replies · +1 points

Some people in UKIP would benefit from the ethos linked to the late, great, Ronald Reagan.

"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.".

If they worried less about the credit, and more about the outcome, we would all do better. Some of them were more concerned about who was the official Brexit campaign, than actually winning the referendum. They didn't do it on their own.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Alex Burghart wins the... · 0 replies · +1 points

Most of what you say applies most of the time, but not in this case.

When Alex Burghart fought Islington North, against Corbyn, in 2015, he lived in the seat. I believe he still does. Whether he and his family will continue to do so remains to be seen.

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