Tim Montgomerie

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• Do top earners pay their fair share of tax?

  
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  In City AM , Allister Heath thinks they do: "The top 10 per cent of earners are already set to pay 53.6 per cent of income tax in 2008-09; the top five per cent will pay 43 per cent and the top one per cent 23.9 per cent. Yes, that’s right, just one per cent of the population will pay close to a quarter of the ...
  1 week ago

• What Sally Bercow thinks of David Cameron and the Conservatives...

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  "Hes just a merchant of spin. I think hes really an archetypal Tory. He favours the interests of the few over the mainstream majority." "Deep down, I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isnt in the interests of most ordinary people." "Theyre not really interested in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whats your favourite political slogan?

  
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  Erick Pickles has just Twittered this : It is a reminder how many words commonly appear in electioneering slogans. A few words are exhausted by politicians. Theres Fresh. New. Change. Britain. Hope. Future. Tomorrow. Time. My favourite of recent times was Margaret Thatchers 1987 slogan, The Next Moves Forward. ...
  2 weeks ago

• How many billions are we about to give away to developing nations to spend on climate change?

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  Andrew Bolt is asking the question in Australia. The National Post is asking the question in Canada. Commonwealth leaders have signed up to a $10bn annual fund to help developing nations address climate change. Its not clear who will be paying what share. Its not clear if this will be instead of aid spending ...
  3 weeks ago

• Exit polls say Swiss have voted to ban the building of minarets in Switzerland

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  So say exit polls in what will be the biggest sign yet of Europes fears at Islamification.  Minarets have been likened to missiles in a distasteful and inflammatory poster campaign: ITN produced this background report earlier before the vote was known:
  3 weeks ago

• Gary McKinnon should stand trial in the USA for the serious crimes he is alleged to have committed

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  David Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, is a goodfriend from university days and he has been a tireless champion of hisconstituent, the computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who has Aspergerssyndrome. The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has today decided that McKinnons extradition to the US should go ahead. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Chief Reporter of The Times (otherwise known as Allys cat)

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  Earlier in the week I noted the anti-Tory tendencies of The Times Chief Reporter, Tom Baldwin. He has a silly story in todays newspaper that is worthy of the Mirror. After my blog appeared on Monday I received a number of messages from journalists and Conservative politicians about the ways in which Baldwin ran ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thought for the Day should either be scrapped or deregulated

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  The BBC has rejected requests from atheists that the Radio 4 Today programmes Thought for the Day slot be either abandoned or opened up to non-believers. As a Christian I think the BBC has made the wrong decision. What Thought for the Day represents isnt authentic belief but sanitised belief. Contributors ...
  4 weeks ago

• Beware of The Times Tom Baldwin

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  Tom Baldwin is back in London, writing political stories for The Times. Before a stint as a reporter for the same newspaper in America he became notorious for doing Downing Streets bidding. His close connections to Alastair Campbell are still evident in the number of stories he has helped write in recent weeks about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twenty of the best of #SaySorryBrown

  
  CentreRight — Authority: 616
  Earlier today I started the #SaySorryBrown hashtag on Twitter and it has been trending as a worldwide top ten topic for over five hours. Our PM is quick - like many lefties - at apologising for other peoples sins but rubbish at apologising for his own. I doubt many minds have been changed but a scroll through the ...
  5 weeks ago

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