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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Downing Street's reshu... · 0 replies · +1 points

What spears are they being given to carry at the moment?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Downing Street's reshu... · 3 replies · +1 points

Rather than importing dozens of people nobody has ever voted for to faff about, how about we actually get a leadership with a sense of direction and purpose? It is no wonder the Parliamentary party is in such ferment.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Ignore ... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is great stuff. When do we get a free trade deal with Northern Ireland?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Plea for phone canvass... · 0 replies · +1 points

GDPR isn't cumbersome, it is a very useful consumer protection against spam and data theft. Blaming GDPR for being poor at valid data collection is really very silly; the consequences of electronic data misuse are very different to putting an In Touch through a letterbox.

I will happily phone canvass this year but I have my doubts about the wisdom of door-to-door.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson should be deep... · 11 replies · +1 points

"The easiest way to avoid being the Prime Minister who lost the Union is to kick that can onto his successor’s lawn."

It's not a given that other PMs would have got us into this particularly dire situation. It was a commonplace before he was elected that Johnson is deeply unpopular in Scotland, and whether he likes it or not he will go down in history as the PM who broke up the UK. We already have a hard border in the Irish Sea. We do need to explore what alternatives there are short of a total collapse of the UK, but it is not a conversation that is likely to be successful until we have a change of leadership.

Perhaps short of a full-blown convention, it would be prudent to set up a body under Privy Council auspices bringing together the leaders of the devolved assemblies and their health people to sort out a proper national response to Covid. Nothing has done greater damage to the Union in recent times than the disjointed series of press conferences and news releases from London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Stormont.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The 33 Conservative MP... · 0 replies · +1 points

A PM who has such a history of disloyalty can hardly complain about anyone else's. Let us hope this is the nucleus of a group which get their letters in to Sir Graham Brady.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why shouldn’t Tories... · 2 replies · +1 points

I signed up for a Parler account to see what it was about. I have never used it and it is now clear that most of its content comes from absolute loons. However, the left media's assumption that anyone who has a Parler account sympathises with Trump is about as loose as the comparable assumption that all Guardian readers are antisemites.

But now that Parler has been resurrected in such a way that it can be back-doored by the Russian Government, it is not really wise to carry on using it.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Toby Young: O'Brien is... · 3 replies · +1 points

Simple answer to this Tony, the whole website is so riddled with quackery, invented offence, and hypocrisy that no sensible person should have anything to do with it.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Toby Young: O'Brien is... · 8 replies · +1 points

Toby has been promoting all kinds of crackpot theories on social media, and it is about time Con Home dropped him. To quote a tweet of his from yesterday:

"Today’s update on Lockdown Sceptics is here. Includes details of a well-researched letter from scientists and lawyers to the FBI demanding it investigates the links between the West’s most passionate lockdown advocates and the Chinese Communist Party."

This is pure crankery.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Trump, Parler, bias, f... · 0 replies · +1 points

Private companies have decided to make a business decision. They could fairly argue that the continued presence of Trump could discourage law-abiding citizens from using their platforms. I thought it has been fairly ridiculous of Conservatives who have deregulated and privatised a wide range of public goods to call for greater regulation and control of private social media companies on the basis that they are providing a public good. But it is consistent with the government's ham-fisted approach to technology law. I suggest anyone who is unhappy with their experience on Twitter asks the company for a full refund.

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