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http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Tony Jefferson: Rebellion in the shires over the economic damage of continued lockdowns

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:20:23 +0000

My question: hasn't there been a little mission creep? I totally take the point that at the beginning covid caused need for action and lock-down was one answer. But since then the fear has been ramped up by the News, by the adverts and in social media. People round here are genuinely scared. Is this any worse than, for example, polio (killed children) or tuberculosis (killed young men and women)? I have never been to China myself, but isn't Wuhan back to normal now? Aren't there 2000 new variants on the original covid? So why is this one special? How do the figures from deaths - deaths - by covid compare with flu and other killers? How exactly does lock down work? Why was the Great Barrington Declaration not publicised properly? On a personal note: I was surprised by how excellent the new vaccination was. Beautifully organised through the local NHS.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : John Bald: Academy scandals. Hinds now needs to take control to stop them.

Fri, 5 Apr 2019 08:32:40 +0000

OK Dorothea, now answer my question: what exactly are schools for? (And a lot of money is being spent on them at the moment.) For me, I think they are for several things at the moment: compliance. Obedience to the State. Passing a lot of exams to please the teachers, each of whom thinks their subject is very important. Getting a helluva lot of money (especially University Vice Chancellors etc and Academies people) for teachers. Its a job innit. Employing a lot of support staff. Showing the power and importance of the State. Why go? Well, as one "student" told me when I asked him (he was skiving at the time), "You 'ave to, dontcher."

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : May's new Brexit hell. An alliance of hard and soft Brexiteers humiliates her. And any sense of prog

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:48:20 +0000

Elaine with those names, you are like Snow White and the seven dwarfs!

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : May's new Brexit hell. An alliance of hard and soft Brexiteers humiliates her. And any sense of prog

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:46:59 +0000

There is just one solution to the Brexit conundrum. Just one. Are you ready for the revelation? Quivering with anti- cipation? Well, here it is: We have to stay in the EEA by joining Efta. We have to leave the EU. Not perfect, I admit. But of the two alternatives: the WA and hard Brexit, both of which spell disaster, which do you prefer? PS We need a politician who can spell this out clearly and forcibly and have the guts to take risks. At the moment I do not see one. Do you?

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Interview. "Look, this is a Christian country", says Hinds. But he adds that the cap on new faith sc

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:30:32 +0000

And any functioning adult who dumps his creator and sustainer and depends on the government, the Welfare and politicians needs his head examined.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Conservatives should take their Scottish colleagues' fears about Johnson seriously

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:55:58 +0000

I have been called all sorts of rude names on the web! If that is the worst you can come up with, well, I am disappointed! Dictators love appealing to "the People" whether through a referendum or the TV (Chavez) or billboards (Saddam Hussein). At the moment, of course, as so often, our elected representatives have got it badly wrong. Part of Mrs May's problems is that she is not comfortable with people who are cleverer than she is and she is, in fact, an elected dictator, lonely, badly advised and stressed. And as appealing as the unloved Headmistress of a very large school.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Conservatives should take their Scottish colleagues' fears about Johnson seriously

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 09:50:34 +0000

I am so sorry - my typing is getting seriously bad! TOMMY Robinson.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Daniel Hannan: Venezuela. Be warned. This is the regime that Corbyn still sees, even now, as his mod

Wed, 6 Feb 2019 10:04:48 +0000

I think you are confusing the United States of America with the United States of Europe (aka the EU). Did you watch the programme on the EU this week? Marvellous.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Peter Golds: Suspended councillors, polling station mobs...and demonic Smurfs. Yes, it's election ti

Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:06:25 +0000

Hey! I am doing a blog not an encyclopaedia! Actually I'm rather proud of my site and it is teaching me a lot about Islam. Do you know any Muslims yourself? They do really good Rendang.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : John Bald: Misbehaviour in classrooms is often due to a failure to teach children to read

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:06:21 +0000

The scariest thing is being right even when everyone else says you are wrong. In the 1970s, I am sure we were both progressives and Right. the Establishment was, we knew, Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Now today the Progressives (us) have won hands down. And we have produced a set of State Educated children who are not quite as good as we thought they were going to be. Perhaps it is time for a radical solution? A reboot?

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : John Bald: Misbehaviour in classrooms is often due to a failure to teach children to read

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:03:57 +0000

All camels have humps. Fenland roads have humps. therefore all fenland roads are camels! You have reversed the middle.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Michael Fabricant: It's high time for us to rediscover our gung-ho spirit

Tue, 1 Jan 2019 16:43:34 +0000

You mean like in Greece and Italy? OK but it will be spun differently of course for us peasant know-nothings.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Andrew Wood: The brave citizens who defeated electoral fraud in Tower Hamlets are faced with a huge

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:59:42 +0000

Have you read my booklets yet on How Islam Works? https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_15?ur...

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Andrew Thorpe-Apps: The noble cause of feminism has descended into farcical man-hate

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:25:03 +0000

Very well said - and about time too!

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Andrew Green: Labour's new immigration policy is a recipe for serious social tension

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 06:11:11 +0000

The trouble is that she pretends to be a normal politician, but she is s dog whistle for all people of colour and a lot of Muslims heritage people too.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Jessica Studdert: Our national politics is broken. Renewal after Brexit needs to be built from the g

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:20:09 +0000

So the answer must be to give more powers to the local councils? I do not think so. Good money after bad.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Jessica Studdert: Our national politics is broken. Renewal after Brexit needs to be built from the g

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 05:59:23 +0000

On our local website there is a lot of discussion about taking children out of school for a holiday during term time. Of course there were the terrible cases of injustice - the man recovering from cancer, for example. What struck me was the way the school receptionist in one school took the decisions. In another the sheer heartlessness of a bureaucrat who lived 40 miles away who knew nothing about the situation. Yesterday there was a serious car crash in our town. The Police were not there although it had happened some ten minutes ago. People were standing round waiting for the Police to arrive. They have to come on a long country road with right angle bends which is some ten miles away now our Police station is closed. Meanwhile the town centre is full of Eastern European drunks and charity shops. The action (malls) moved out years ago. So much for local government. But there are something like 150 bureaucrats in our District Council and several more in our County Council, all paid for with our taxes.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Festus Akinbusoye: Ministers must clamp down on schools which misuse exclusion as a tool to raise ex

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:29:55 +0000

"I have no doubt whatsoever that the vast majority of our schools act appropriately, after much deliberation, before taking the hard but necessary decision to exclude a pupil." I have a good example of a boy who was excluded from a local school without any of this stuff. He is currently in limbo. And there is nothing anyone can do about it either.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : Andrew Boff: The rise of violent crime in London is an emergency - here is my plan to tackle it

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 05:54:33 +0000

Good for you! Something needs to be done - and fast. When Brexit goes wrong - as it must - violence on the streets is very likely now.

http://www.conservativehome.com/ : The thrills and spills of seeking the EEA port in a storm

Sun, 9 Sep 2018 06:26:20 +0000

Terry, you may well live to regret these brave words in just a very few months' time.