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If you ever needed a reason to understand why the Conservative party cult led by Colin Craig is simply not credible as a political party have a look at this Facebook status update that was posted today, and then deleted.
Maybe there is hope. At least someone in the Conservative Party actually realised that was a gigantic blunder and deleted it. Shame my army was vigilant.
Now that Margaret Thatcher has died many of her famous lines are being recounted and you can really see just how effective a good sledge can be.
Edward Heath, who Thatcher deposed as the leader of the Conservative Party, had been powerless against the miners and their feared leader Arthur Scargill. When the Conservatives decisively won the election of 1979, Thatcher was unleashed. She said of Scargill, “Poor Arthur, he’s out on a limb, and all I have to help him with is a chainsaw.” Read more »
Despite the spin from Downing Street that David Cameron is offering a Thatcherite solution for Britain I have my doubts. I don’t think David Cameron has the guts for a scrap. The Tories face the same problem as National does here.
After years of demonisation by the left who wrote the narrative for too long, and locked in expensive welfare programmes to keep the electorate enslaved, their focus groups told them that they had to be nice. So rather than grasp the nettle against unions and special interests and speaking truth to the elecotrate about the dire consequences both John Key and David Cameron took the wet option.
It is time they manned up.
Unfortunately the numbers are against both.
Sometimes in politics, numbers speak more eloquently than any words. Those figures are not a grid reference, yet they point to the central issue in Conservative Party politics after Margaret Thatcher. They also describe the struggle facing the man trying to fill her shoes.
The first three numbers are the share of the vote Baroness Thatcher took in the general elections she fought as Conservative leader, in 1979, 1983 and 1987. The last, smaller, figure is Mr Cameron’s score in 2010. The difference forced him into coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
What were the components of Lady Thatcher’s victories? And can Mr Cameron ever hope to reassemble all the pieces of the puzzle and build something not seen since 1997 – an all-Conservative Government? Read more »
Two Conservative party candidates have been referred to the Police by the Electoral Commission for irregularities:
The Electoral Commission has referred the two Conservative Party candidates – former United Future MP and Tauranga City Councillor Larry Baldock and Peter Redman – to the Police for filing false returns in 2011. It has also referred Mr Baldock “for paying, or arranging another person to pay” election expenses in excess of the $25,000 maximum spending limit for candidates which applied in 2011. The penalties include fines of up to $100,000.
Conservative Party leader Colin Craig said it related to advertising the two men had booked on Radio Rhema. Mr Baldock had arranged for the advertisements to be split so 60 per cent were for Mr Baldock and 40 per cent for Mr Redman and their original expense returns had reflected that split.
However, they subsequently discovered Radio Rhema had only run Mr Baldock’s ads so the two men put in amended returns in May last year so that all the costs were in Mr Baldock’s return.
Mr Craig said it appeared to be a genuine error and both men had assured him they had filed accurate returns to the best of the their ability. Read more »
Nigel Farage is on fire in the Telegraph:
“I can’t stand Cameron,” says Farage, witheringly, through a miasma of cigarette smoke. “He’s shallow, nobody trusts a word he says. I respect people with different opinions that are sincerely held. The Lib Dems make no secret they are pro-Europe; I might disagree but at least they are upfront. I reserve my hatred for the class of political weasels who say one thing in Britain and then vote an entirely different way in the European Parliament.”
Nobody quite does sledges like pommy bastards. Read more »
He has an evil Australian along to help. No one does evil as well as Rupert.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, held a private dinner with Rupert Murdoch earlier this week in which he suggested he would form an electoral pact with the Conservatives if the Prime Minister stepped down.
He said he will then set out plans to join forces with the Conservatives to fight Labour in the 2015 general election, but only if David Cameron agrees to step down as the party leader, well-placed sources said. Read more »
Many people, mainly from the left wing conveniently ignore the socialist roots of fascism. they wrongly describe fascists as “far right”, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Then again when have the left wing ever bothered with such trivialities as the truth:
‘I am a Socialist,’ Hitler told Otto Strasser in 1930, ‘and a very different kind of Socialist from your rich friend, Count Reventlow’.
No one at the time would have regarded it as a controversial statement. The Nazis could hardly have been more open in their socialism, describing themselves with the same terminology as our own SWP: National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Almost everyone in those days accepted that fascism had emerged from the revolutionary Left. Its militants marched on May Day under red flags. Its leaders stood for collectivism, state control of industry, high tariffs, workers’ councils. Around Europe, fascists were convinced that, as Hitler told an enthusiastic Mussolini in 1934, ‘capitalism has run its course’.
One of the most stunning achievements of the modern Left is to have created a cultural climate where simply to recite these facts is jarring. History is reinterpreted, and it is taken as axiomatic that fascism must have been Right-wing, the logic seemingly being that Left-wing means compassionate and Right-wing means nasty and fascists were nasty. You expect this level of analysis from Twitter mobs; you shouldn’t expect it from mainstream commentators. Read more »
The Tory old guard are flexing their arms over marriage equality…all 20 of them.
Senior local Conservatives have accused Prime Minister David Cameron of “betraying” the grassroots of their party, as they deliver a last-ditch attempt to delay the vote on same-sex marriage.
A group of 20 senior local Conservatives have today written to Mr Cameron imploring him to delay a vote on same-sex marriage until after the next election.
It came as William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said he became a supporter of gay marriage “over the last couple of years”.
He said he considered whether it was right in principle, if there was enough public support and if there were protections for people who did not agree with it.
“I think as times have changed, civil partnerships came in, within a remarkably short period of time those things become accepted,” he told BBC 1′s Sunday Politics. “I think the same will happen with this.”
The “strongly-worded letter”, delivered personally to Downing Street by a delegation of six members this afternoon, protests against the proposals being made “without adequate debate or consultation”.
According to its content, the passing of the Bill will lead to “long-held religious and personal freedoms and the right to free speech” being “adversely affected”, as well as “significant damage” to the Party in the 2015 election. Read more »
Recent polling is showing that the gay marriage debate is costing the Conservatives big time.
Divisions over gay marriage could cost the Conservatives enough votes to force them out of power at the next election, a new poll suggests.
One in five of voters who supported the party in 2010 would “definitely not” do so again if the Coalition presses ahead with the change, it found.
Even though a majority of Conservative voters polled insisted they would stay with the party, the loss of a fifth of its support would be enough to force it out of power. Read more »
The Creepy Conservative Creature from North Shore has had another brain fart. He’s kicked off his bigoted 2013 attention seeking campaign with a pearler this time, stating that society has a right to discriminate against gay relationships, not just marriage. What Colin Craig fails to realize (or accept) is that he is trying to slam the barn door shut well after the horse has bolted. Times have changed but cringeworthy Colin is still stuck in the stone age.
