en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/11509163 Comments by lewee4671 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/sarah-elliott-trump-is-acting-unconstitutionally-now-and-is-damaging-our-republican-party-but-has-achieved-much-in-office.html#IDComment1096535766 Not divisive? So any candidate who believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman or who believes that pre-born lives also matter, need not apply? Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:41:14 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/sarah-elliott-trump-is-acting-unconstitutionally-now-and-is-damaging-our-republican-party-but-has-achieved-much-in-office.html#IDComment1096535766 https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2021/01/gareth-lyon-we-need-a-public-sector-neutrality-act-to-reign-in-politicisation.html#IDComment1096533409 I agree that public organisations must only act in a politically neutral way, but the article goes too far in suggesting that millions of people who work in public organisations should be barred from holding offices in political parties. So a maths teacher who works in a private school should be allowed to become the treasurer of his or her local political party branch but a maths teaching working in a comprehensive school would be denied that right? Similarly nurses who work for the NHS would be deprived of those rights but would retain them if they working in a private hospital? Fri, 8 Jan 2021 08:24:56 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2021/01/gareth-lyon-we-need-a-public-sector-neutrality-act-to-reign-in-politicisation.html#IDComment1096533409 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-williamson-confirms-that-gcses-and-a-level-exams-will-not-take-place-this-year.html#IDComment1096484640 Whenever Gavin Williamson guarantees anything you can safely assume the complete opposite will happen. Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:00:28 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-williamson-confirms-that-gcses-and-a-level-exams-will-not-take-place-this-year.html#IDComment1096484640 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/dan-boucher-welsh-labour-has-been-given-twenty-four-years-to-transform-the-economy-and-failed.html#IDComment1096454386 Since the main economic levels were retained by Westminster, the impact of the Welsh Government on a Welsh economic performance can only be marginal at best. Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:38:25 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/dan-boucher-welsh-labour-has-been-given-twenty-four-years-to-transform-the-economy-and-failed.html#IDComment1096454386 https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2021/01/a-timetable-for-vaccinating-the-most-vulnerable-by-mid-february-the-prime-ministers-statement-full-text.html#IDComment1096431049 Over 80,000 positive cases on 29th December. How on earth has this been allowed to get so out of control after all the restrictions over the past 9 months? Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:51:17 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2021/01/a-timetable-for-vaccinating-the-most-vulnerable-by-mid-february-the-prime-ministers-statement-full-text.html#IDComment1096431049 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430992 Actual most people are ‘ahead of the curve’ if the ‘curve’ is Johnson. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:45:56 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430992 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430983 Yes, Johnson sees that Starmer has argued for it, and that Sturgeon has announced it for Scotland, then decides to copy. Leadership at its finest.... Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:44:59 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430983 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430912 I don’t know what Sturgeon will think of it by I am pleased to see this development - she deserves everything the criminal justice system hits her with. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:42:31 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096430912 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096429147 Amazing how Boris Johnson just watches what Nicola Sturgeon does then simply follows her lead. To be fair, at least he has learned that dither and delay is not a good strategy and he is now copying and acting more quickly than he did back in March. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:52:41 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-back-to-the-future-johnson-announces-lockdown-three.html#IDComment1096429147 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096426129 Any other political views you think should be outlawed from those wishing to stand for election to the UK parliament? Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:14:53 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096426129 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096425952 One referendum in a generation was not a commitment rather than a statement of what was likely - it was not part of the Edinburgh Agreement that transferred the power to hold the referendum. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:10:58 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096425952 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096425790 Wrong. Just wrong. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 18:08:17 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096425790 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096415806 The issue of ‘Barnet consequentials’ being the main priority of the SNP is not surprising considering the way the UK is run - the UK government directly controls England but controls tax and spending across the UK (with limited variation possible within the devolved countries). This means most parliamentary business concerns matters directly affecting England but only having impact on Scotland in terms of the Barnet Formula - and the SNP is right to make sure that any changes made for England do not have a negative financial consequence north of the border. The solution to this would be full fiscal autonomy for Scotland - then there would be no need for a Barnet Formula to determine spending in the countries of the UK that are not England. Mon, 4 Jan 2021 08:53:43 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2021/01/richard-holden-scottish-nationalists-and-their-strasbourg-syndrome.html#IDComment1096415806 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-parents-should-send-children-to-primary-school-says-pm.html#IDComment1096396216 The point made was correct, however. Boris will tell parents today that schools will be open and then will announce the opposite tomorrow. Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:49:21 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/video/2021/01/watch-parents-should-send-children-to-primary-school-says-pm.html#IDComment1096396216 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/mario-laghos-johnson-must-chuck-free-market-ideology-and-double-down-on-levelling-up-britain.html#IDComment1096368188 Your use of the term ‘Home Rule’, I suspect, is quite loose. Are you suggesting that Yorkshire should have a separate legal system with the ability to make its own laws? If not, you are advocating for a measure of devolved decision-making within national made policy frameworks. That is nothing near to Home Rule. Sat, 2 Jan 2021 11:28:21 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/mario-laghos-johnson-must-chuck-free-market-ideology-and-double-down-on-levelling-up-britain.html#IDComment1096368188 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/mario-laghos-johnson-must-chuck-free-market-ideology-and-double-down-on-levelling-up-britain.html#IDComment1096366454 Spending big requires taxing big, borrowing big (bigger!) or generating a huge boost to the economy, unless the plan is to allow inflation to accelerate. Classic Keynesianism, really. Labour only managed to get elected in 1997 when ‘new’ Labour rejected this approach and moved to the right, and have not been elected again since re-adopting this approach. Sat, 2 Jan 2021 09:10:39 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2021/01/mario-laghos-johnson-must-chuck-free-market-ideology-and-double-down-on-levelling-up-britain.html#IDComment1096366454 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355528 Check how many type 22s were promised during the referendum and how that promise was reneged on thereafter... Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:55:20 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355528 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355505 Funny that ALL NATO members except for the USA, France and the UK have no nuclear weapons...yet Scotland alone would not be accepted into membership because it does not wish to have nuclear weapons? As we say in Scotland, Aye right... Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:53:57 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355505 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355479 All the defence footprint within Scotland could be paid for by approximately half the figure assumed in the GERS figures. The GERS figure is based on population share are not actual spending within Scotland, which is less. Fri, 1 Jan 2021 22:50:55 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096355479 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096341723 ....and support for both the SNP and independence has risen in the past 12 months. So your point is? Fri, 1 Jan 2021 13:34:40 +0000 https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/01/in-2021-the-union-is-in-danger-but-there-is-a-way-to-ridicule-and-defeat-the-nats.html#IDComment1096341723