Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for London mayor, talks like a Guardian columnist: In the past four years, there has been a disturbing rise in homophobic hate crime in London … No single community should ever feel singled out, … Continue reading →
This is the British Conservative tradition: make a lot of noise during an election campaign about how you’ll change politics for good. I call this the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’ stage. It’s all bluster, of course. Then meekly back down … Continue reading →
One issue that hasn’t been talked about at all in this election campaign is what a loss would do to the Conservatives. I’ve said many times that the Conservative base is pretty fed up with the party, and is voting … Continue reading →
In a notorious talk given to Conservative Future in 2009, Sean Gabb made the following radical recommendation: On the first day of your government, you should close down the BBC. You should take it off air. You should disclaim its … Continue reading →
There was a lot of excitement on Friday over the news that the Conservatives say they’re going to reverse Dr Beeching’s railway closures: Boris Johnson will reinstate local railway lines axed under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s as part … Continue reading →
Earlier this year I wrote that the Tories were coming close to the flipping (or tripping) point, the point at which their voters switch on masse to another party once they realise that that other party is the main chance. … Continue reading →
There’s always a fake storm over every little thing a Conservative says, cooked up by the media, that doesn’t exist in reality, or at least, not outside the inner suburbs of London: Strangely, there is no “uproar”, Laura, out here … Continue reading →
They really don’t get what squishes they really are: Donna Jones, the Tory candidate in Portsmouth South, on Tuesday begged Mr Farage not to stand a candidate against her. She said: “If the Brexit Party don’t stand a candidate, … Continue reading →
Ever since Boris Johnson concluded his October deal with the EU we’ve been told by the supposedly Leave-supporting media that although it’s a pretty bad deal, it’s the best we can get because the Remainer Parliament has tied our hands. … Continue reading →
This is hilarious. An article from Matthew Parris from three and a half years ago has surfaced in which he says that whichever side of the Conservative Party wins the referendum must purge the other side! This applies even if … Continue reading →
Rory Stewart self-promotes again with another easy interview: Stewart does not conceal his distaste for Johnson. ‘He’s not my type of person,’ he says. ‘We’re complete chalk and cheese…I’m suspicious of the whole show. I instinctively don’t like the evasions, … Continue reading →
TiVo, or Sky+ in the UK, allows you to bypass the crap that TV channels mostly offer up, and create your own channel. It must be twenty years since anyone sat down and watched the same channel all night. (Personally, … Continue reading →
So now Antoinette Sandbach has joined the Liberal Democrats, and has immediately been made their candidate for Eddisbury, her existing seat. You’ve got to wonder at how shit the LibDems current candidates must be if they toss them out as … Continue reading →
I think that if we get an election, and the Conservatives (or a Conservative-Brexit Party coalition) win a clear majority, then we should rip up Johnson’s deal and start again. Tell the EU that’s everything’s changed, their deal – because … Continue reading →
Mr Ecks, the strident commentator who is well-known on the ConLib blogosphere, been suggesting that Johnson could solve the Brexit situation by invoking the Civil Contingencies Act to declare a state of emergency and pull us out with a WTO … Continue reading →
