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• in Politics
  Why I Would Abolish the UK's National Minimum Wage
  As the Low Pay Commission announces a review, I explain why I would abolish the UK's national minimum wage
  by fcablog / on Oct 4, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “conservative party”

 

• Argyll and Bute: where now – experiences and choices?

  
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  In the unprincipled goings on of the last administration, led by the Alliance of Independent Councillors, we hoped that a party-led administration would bring a discipline and a set of principles that would be stabilising and restore trust to local government. The opposite has been the case. Nothing could have been ...
  6 days ago

• David Cameron has lost control of the Conservative Party

  
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  If you want to know how much influence David Cameron still has over the Conservative Party, read this opening paragraph from tomorrows Observer: David Cameron has ordered his ministers to abstain in a pivotal Commons vote on a future EU referendum next week, in a blow to his Eurosceptic colleagues.Thats right: his ...
  1 week ago

• Doug Finley, former strategist behind Stephen Harper’s rise, dies after cancer battle

  
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  OTTAWA — Doug Finley, the organizational “pitbull” behind Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s rise to power, built a reputation in conservative circles for mercurial temper, implaccable calm, fierce loyalty and prodigious work ethic. Finley, 66, died Saturday after a battle with colorectal cancer that the ...
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• EU Referendum Bill Ruins Cameron’s Honeymoon

  
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      The short period of unity the Conservative party has enjoyed since the death of Margaret Thatcher seemed to be falling apart today, as Downing Street offered a nervous and baffling response to a manoeuvre by Tory backbenchers. A spokesman for the prime minister said he was relaxed about a backbench bill ...
  1 week ago

• A conflict of interest

  
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  One of the core requirements on New Zealand public servants is political neutrality. Public servants must be impartial in enacting the policies of the government of the day and not bring their politics into their work. As the guidance on this notes, this is as much about perception and the sensitivities of ...
  1 week ago

• REFLECTIONS ON UKIP – AND ON REFLECTIONS ABOUT UKIP

  
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  A week on from the local elections, and there seems to be no end to the debate about UKIP’s success. Explanations fall into two broad categories. Some insist that UKIP garnered merely a temporary midterm protest vote. Others see Nigel Farage’s outfit as a lasting threat to which the main parties must respond by ...
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• Why hasn’t Nadine Dorries MP declared her recent earnings?

  
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  Almost six months on from her all-too-public appearance on ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’, Nadine Dorries still hasn’t registered her income from appearing on the show with the House of Commons authorities. In fact, according to the most recent edition of the House of Commons Register of Members’ ...
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• How much did you earn in the jungle, Nadine Dorries?

  
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  The decision by the Conservatives to give Nadine Dorries back the whip appears to have been warmly welcomed in party circles. But before the rest of us celebrate this moment of reconciliation, isnt there one question which still needs to be answered? Last December, in the wake of her bizarre decision to appear on Im ...
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• "Now we can sit back and watch the Tories go mad" - an apology

  
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  When the Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by-election in the small hours of 1 March, I got rather carried away on Twitter: Congratulations to @mike4eastleigh - now we can sit back and watch the Tories go mad #libdemandproud — Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) March 1, 2013Later that morning I was quoted on the Today ...
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• UKIP set to cause ‘political earthquake’ as governing Conservatives flounder

  
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  by Hilary White LONDON, May 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Britain, local council elections are seen as a window into the political future, and last week’s surge by Nigel Farage’s United Kingdom Independence Party has the ruling Conservative Party deeply worried.  UKIP has been attracting former…
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• Time for moderate Conservatives to show some backbone

  
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  From the Leicester Mercury: A senior Tory county councillor says he was disappointed that a number of his ballot papers were spoiled by voters opposed to changing the law on gay marriage. The Conservative politician, who did not wish to be named, was re-elected in Thursdays Leicestershire County Council election and ...
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• Canada's Conservatives already out with anti-Trudeau ads

  
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  Canadas Conservatives already out with anti-Trudeau ads OTTAWA (Reuters) - The governing Conservative Party gave Justin Trudeau no honeymoon in his new role as leader of the Liberal Party, with attack ads launched on Monday that questioned if he has the judgment to run Canada. Canadas next federal ... Read more on ...
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• Elections Alberta Rules Katz Contribution Completely Legal

  
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  Elections Alberta and its Chief Electoral Officer Brian Fjeldheim have spoken on the Daryl Katz contribution scandal and they believe there was no scandal at all. Daryl Katz, chairman and CEO of The Katz Group and the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, has been under fire recently after a contribution of ...
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• Senior Tory Councillor: It is a shame that some voters have gone to UKIP over equal marriage

  
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  A senior Conservative county councillor has expressed disappointment at the fact that ballot papers in last week’s local elections were spoiled by voters who voiced their opposition to equal marriage. The Tory politician, who asked not to be named, told This Is Leicestershire that he saw that a number of voters had ...
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• Back from the future

  
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  Malcolm would have to admit Mark Pack came as close as anyone yet to defining why UKIP causes cringing: Some of UKIP’s support comes from places the Liberal Democrat should leave well alone — especially those yearning for a 1950s-style society of white men at work, white women at home and gays in the closet. ...
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• A Tory-Ukip pact? Up to you, guys. But you do know there’s an easier way, right?

  
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  Ukip’s spectacular showing at last week’s local elections has got the Tories spooked. The full realisation is sinking in that this may not be a one-off eruption of popular protest. Nigel Farage’s band of modern-life-is-rubbish disciples will likely top next year’s Euro polls. Such momentum may propel them ...
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• Queen’s speech 2013: The 0.7% worry, no fuss

  
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  An extremely short blog post. Based on a…tweet! Ivan Lewis ‏@IvanLewis_MP Leaving 0.7 bill out of Queens speech shows Camerons weakness + lurch to right. + yet another eg of @nick_clegg’s impotence.#brokenpromise Again, I’ve no political affiliation. Nevertheless, I wonder what’s the great fuss over ...
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• Nigel Evans denies "completely false" rape allegations

  
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  By Harry Phibbs Follow  Harry on Twitter Nigel Evans MP has made the following statement: Yesterday I was interviewed by the police concerning two complaints, one of which dates back four years, made by two people who are well-known to each other, and who, until yesterday, I regarded as friends. The ...
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• Fruitcakes and closet racists? Camerons talking about YOU!

  
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  This is Peter Hitchenss Mail on Sunday column It is nowjust a matter of time before the Tory Party dies. This is not a moment toosoon. For far too long this futile and fraudulent body has stolen the votes ofconservative patriots. For fartoo long Tory leaders have secretly despised their own supporters. ...
  2 weeks ago

• British M.P. Is Questioned in Rape Inquiry

  
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  Nigel Evans, a deputy speaker in the House of Commons, was being questioned about accusations of attacks on other men.        
  2 weeks ago

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