ConservativeHome has a great piece posted asking wether we are a right wing country or not (click here to read it). I think it may go some way to answering James' question in his guest blog earlier.
Personally I am not sure that left and right means the same anymore, they are certainly not so rigid. Let me ask you, ten years ago, if I told you that one party is 'hugging' young degenerates and green friendly and the other party is cuddling up to business, privatising the NHS, closing local post offices and full of sleaze, which party would you have thought I was talking about?
Thursday, 21 December 2006
Guest Blog - James Ward
Ok, here it is as promised... the first of the guest blogs, from James Ward.
A poll conducted by The Guardian and ICM have put the Conservatives at 40%, Labour 32% and the Lib Dems at 18%. That’s the highest the Tories have been since Cameron started a year ago, and the lowest Labour have been since 1992.
What wonderful news. But, why isn’t it better? Why don’t the Tories have 50% or 60% or more? Why exactly are one in three people saying that, if there were a General Election tomorrow, they’d vote Labour?
Vote for a government that’s closing post offices and hospitals. For a party whose leader was questioned by police about cash-for-peerages. Questioned by police. (And just how lucky was it that it occurred on the exact same day as the inquest into the death of Diana was published? Incidentally, what a remarkable conclusion Lord Stevens arrived at: do you mean to tell me that a woman killed in a car driven by a drunkard, chased through a Parisian tunnel at night, that crashed into a pillar was an accident? Let me get a pen….)
Anyway. A leader who took us to war in Iraq for, let’s be kind, not very good reasons. Whose deputy was shacked up with his secretary or playing croquet. Who’s about – so we’re led to believe – to hand over to the most boring man in Christendom, a man using the panic over global warming to rack up extra taxes on top of all his others. (Sign outside a derelict shop window: ‘Closing down due to illness. I’m sick of Gordon Brown.’)
A man whose cabinet has, over the years, been filled with people he’s ended up sacking not once, but twice. The list goes on and on and on. And I’ve not even mentioned Tessa Jowell and the mortgage, Cherie and her hair or freebies, Blunkett or Mandy, or Charles Clarke and the prisoners, or Margaret Beckett and, well, just for letting a woman who goes on caravan holidays be foreign secretary.
A poll conducted by The Guardian and ICM have put the Conservatives at 40%, Labour 32% and the Lib Dems at 18%. That’s the highest the Tories have been since Cameron started a year ago, and the lowest Labour have been since 1992.
What wonderful news. But, why isn’t it better? Why don’t the Tories have 50% or 60% or more? Why exactly are one in three people saying that, if there were a General Election tomorrow, they’d vote Labour?
Vote for a government that’s closing post offices and hospitals. For a party whose leader was questioned by police about cash-for-peerages. Questioned by police. (And just how lucky was it that it occurred on the exact same day as the inquest into the death of Diana was published? Incidentally, what a remarkable conclusion Lord Stevens arrived at: do you mean to tell me that a woman killed in a car driven by a drunkard, chased through a Parisian tunnel at night, that crashed into a pillar was an accident? Let me get a pen….)
Anyway. A leader who took us to war in Iraq for, let’s be kind, not very good reasons. Whose deputy was shacked up with his secretary or playing croquet. Who’s about – so we’re led to believe – to hand over to the most boring man in Christendom, a man using the panic over global warming to rack up extra taxes on top of all his others. (Sign outside a derelict shop window: ‘Closing down due to illness. I’m sick of Gordon Brown.’)
A man whose cabinet has, over the years, been filled with people he’s ended up sacking not once, but twice. The list goes on and on and on. And I’ve not even mentioned Tessa Jowell and the mortgage, Cherie and her hair or freebies, Blunkett or Mandy, or Charles Clarke and the prisoners, or Margaret Beckett and, well, just for letting a woman who goes on caravan holidays be foreign secretary.
Introductory Leaflet
The first draft of my Introductory Leaflet is done.
This is very exciting because it means that I have officially started campaigning now. The bulk of the work will be done after Christmas when I start canvassing homes and delivering leaflets alot. Hopefully going to get some help from friends; if anyone fancies helping out for a while I will buy them a drink... or at least re-imburse them at a later date!
Also I am announcing that everynow and then I will try to get guest Bloggers on the site... so keep in touch for them.
Ben
This is very exciting because it means that I have officially started campaigning now. The bulk of the work will be done after Christmas when I start canvassing homes and delivering leaflets alot. Hopefully going to get some help from friends; if anyone fancies helping out for a while I will buy them a drink... or at least re-imburse them at a later date!
Also I am announcing that everynow and then I will try to get guest Bloggers on the site... so keep in touch for them.
Ben
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
First Post - The Grand Opening!
Welcome to my blogspot.
Keep up to date with what I am up to and keep track of my campaign to be the next Maidstone Borough Councillor for Loose.
Keep up to date with what I am up to and keep track of my campaign to be the next Maidstone Borough Councillor for Loose.
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