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Boris, Davis, Kearney, Scott, Harris, Brown, Cameron, Clegg

Real life has been catching up with me recently and haven’t really been keeping up with the developments in political life so this is a quick run-down of my opinions on various matters:
Boris/Local Elections/Crewe
I know it was all a long time ago now and I hate to remind you all but I wasn’t overly optimistic [...]

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The Secret to Henley

Personally, I was quite disappointed when I turned on my computer this morning to see the results of yesterday’s polls, I was hoping for a closer race.  I guess a lot of soul-searching will be done by the campaign team over the next few days.
However, On the metro into work I came across something that [...]

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Double-D has 25 opponents

There are apparently going to be 26 names on the voting slip in Haltemprice and Howden on 10 July:

Grace Christine Astley - Independent
David Laurence Bishop - Church of the Militant Elvis Party
Ronnie Carroll - Make Politicians History
Mad Cow-Girl - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
David Craig - Independent
Herbert Winford Crossman - Independent
Tess Culnane - National [...]

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Young Tory of the Year

Fry & Laurie from 13 years ago. Nothing’s changed.

The script can be found here.

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Ashcroft: The Chavez Connection

Rob Parsons, residing in A Comfortable Place, beat me to it but there is a nice story in The Economist this week about how Belize Bank is holding onto $10 Million that the Belizean Government thinks belongs to the people of Belize, a gift from the Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, to build housing and [...]

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Naive DC

Currently passing the time by watching an episode of the series Tory! Tory! Tory!, a documentary about the rise of Thatcherite conservatives in the 70’s and 80’s, available on Veoh.
Peter Clarke (PA to Keith Joseph) says this:
“I think you could say that the young Keith Joseph was not unlike the young David Cameron, that they [...]

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Tory Lovebombing starts

Yesterday I blogged about the seven ways in which the tories are hoping to beat the libdems. It seems they have been quick off the mark with at least one of them:
“We hope that the Liberal Democrats under Mr Clegg will join us in putting pressure on the government to devolve power to local [...]

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Seven ways to beat us. hmm.

Liberal Burblings points to this post on the ToryHome website, detailing exactly how the Tories plan to take us to the cleaners:
DON’T GIVE THEM PUBLICITY (AND NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING DOESN’T WORK)
Well, sorry guys, but with the recent performance of old Vince and the soon crowning of the young, hungry successor to Ming I’m sure we’ll be [...]

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How to make £22 Billion from 3Gs

It has been a while now since the Conservative policy reviews, and in particular, John Redwood’s arch-free market pamphlet, the economic competitiveness review. If you read my book page you will see I readily admitted my lack of knowledge in economic matters so I will not be critiquing Mr Redwood’s work on any huge [...]