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  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”

 

• Tory MP Gerald Howarth: ‘There are plenty in the aggressive homosexual community who want more than just same-sex marriage’

  
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  Former Conservative defence minister Sir Gerald Howarth has warned of the dangers of the “aggressive homosexual community”. The Aldershot MP was speaking during the Commons debate on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill on Monday evening. Margot James, the first out lesbian Tory MP to be elected said gay ...
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• Comment: Say no to same-sex bill marriage amendments, Mr Cameron

  
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  The amendments to the same-sex marriage bill are demeaning to LGBT people. Resist them and make the opponents to equality explain their true agenda, writes Adrian Tippetts for PinkNews.co.uk. David Cameron and the Coalition government went out of their way to appease the anti-marriage lobby and traditionalist MPs. ...
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• Ed Milibands gay marriage lifeline for Cameron is good politics – but most importantly, its the right thing to do

  
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  Credit where it’s due. Ed Miliband seems to have found a clever way of throwing David Cameron a lifeline on gay marriage, while at the same time letting Ed legitimately claim that he’s stuck to his principles on civil partnerships. Labour has announced it’s tabling its own amendment to the same-sex marriage ...
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• Salford mayor hit by ‘power grab’ row as top team expands

  
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  Mr Stewart marked a year since his election to mayor by announcing a reshuffle, and part of the changes see two senior town hall managers moving into his office
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• Why we don’t believe Osborne’s latest excuse against the Robinhood Tax

  
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  by Simon Chouffot It’s fair to say George Osborne has never been the Financial Transaction Tax’s biggest fan. As 11 European countries agreed a 0.01%-0.1% tax on shares, bonds and derivatives that will raise an estimated £30bn each year, he made clear that Britain was folding its arms, stamping its foot and ...
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• On gay marriage and Europe, David Cameron is far closer to the British public than his critics are

  
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  Most of us are familiar with the dreamy sensation of sitting in a carriage on a railway platform waiting for our train to depart. At length, the journey appears to begin and our train in motion. Suddenly, with a bit of a jolt, we realise that its all an optical illusion. Our train is still [...]
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• Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert: ‘Equal marriage is now a litmus test for David Cameron’

  
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  Writing exclusively for PinkNews.co.uk, Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Gilbert says today’s start of the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill is a huge test for David Cameron’s commitment to marriage equality and for the progressive elements within the Conservative Party. May has been a good month ...
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• UK: civil partnerships for heterosexual couples would cost £4 billion claims government

  
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  An amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples would cost £4 billion and delay the legislation by as much as two years, the government has claimed. The government is braced for a significant Tory rebellion during the bill’s third reading later today. ...
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• VIDEO: Britain’s Cameron ‘losing Control’ as Rift With Party Core Widens

  
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  Britain’s Cameron ‘losing control’ as rift with party core widens. Google’s Schmidt to meet Britain’s Cameron as tax row rages. UK trade may struggle to stand still after EU exit Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. To stay in the loop, ...
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• Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion

  
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  The government is reported to be attempting to compromise with the 150 Tory MPs set to oppose the same-sex marriage bill, by considering amendments giving protection to “conscientious objectors”. MPs are to resume debate on the same-sex marriage bill tomorrow, and if approved on Tuesday it will pass to the House ...
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• Conservative Grassroots warn party to drop equal marriage or ‘change leadership’

  
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  Conservative Party chairs have warned that David Cameron has damaged his own party with the same-sex marriage bill, which is due to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow. In a letter to the Tory leader, 30 past and present local Conservative chairs from the party’s Grassroots organisation warned that his push ...
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• Lord Feldman should ring each Conservative Association Chairman to thank local activists for their work

  
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  By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter . This weekend of the “mad, swivel-eyed loons” row will swiftly be followed by Commons debate on the same-sex marriage bill. Will Conservative MPs accept Lord Feldmans denial, view the incident as yet another instance of media irresponsbility, and look more ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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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