This is an article by John Church. John is an oil and gas professional and has spent some 30 years working for one of the biggest oil companies in the world. I have had enough. After nearly 3 months of this, I am going to call it for what it is: TOTAL AND UTTER NONSENSE. […]
Dominic Cummings has made a terrible mistake. I don’t mean going to Durham, or Barnard Castle. Which may have been mistakes, but they are very minor compared to the real mistake he has made. The real mistake he has made is that he trusted the chattering classes, and their pet scientists, on the Covid-19 and […]
Matthew Parris knew perfectly well – he used to often write about it – how bad the EU was, yet when push came to shove he took their side. Now it’s happening again with the civil service. He knows they’re awful, but when it comes down to it he’ll take their side rather than ours. […]
Gavin Longmuir has taken the trouble to write a lengthy comment on my last post about Dom Cummings, so I thought I’d bring the discussion into a new post to give it some more visibility: It is very easy for enthusiasts to over-estimate how strongly others feel about certain things. Personally I’m not an enthusiast […]
Here’s a question to ponder in the light of my previous post: if Dominic Cummings is ever forced out of his role, what happens if he decides to form a new conservative party? What happens if he runs for Parliament at the next election? He could be PM. Or the power behind a PM again. […]
Rob Wilson understands that Boris is standing on shaky turf, but gets things back-to-front: Boris Johnson may be king of the castle now, but one false move could spark rebellion He actually thinks the wets may launch a coup: In the past few weeks there have already been “noises off” from Huw Merriman and Damian […]
Another Boris blunder: Geoffrey Cox desperate to hang on to his job as Attorney General, friends say as Boris Johnson set for first major reshuffle Lucy Frazer is being lined up to replace Mr Cox although there are signs he may not go quietly This is why you don’t appoint the same old faces […]
The Telegraph pleads: Boris and Javid must kill these ridiculous, unconservative tax plans It is starting to feel as if Treasury mandarins have forgotten who won the election. They have been busy in the past few weeks dusting off every absurd anti-Tory and anti-supply side idea cooked up by Left‑wing think tanks and technocrats […]
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, victimised, or punished, and we must not stand idly by as this form of abuse […]
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 afterwards, and leave everything fairly similar to before. And that’s pretty much it. The foreign […]
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 for them mainly because of Brexit, and out of fear of a hard-left Labour party. […]
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 copyrights. You should throw all its staff into the street … You must shut it […]
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 of a package of measures to rejuvenate provincial towns. Some said it was a great […]
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. I think the Tories came perilously close to that point, and I think that had […]
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 in the country. Stop manufacturing ersatz outrage and pretending its news. https://t.co/9wDQ44uRyW — Allison Pearson […]
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, then the chances of me winning go up dramatically. It’s a three-way marginal, so not […]
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. Even the ultra-sound James Delingpole took this line. It’s a crummy deal, but we can’t […]
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 the Leavers win: The Peter Bones, the Liam Foxes, the Chris Graylings, the Priti Patels, […]
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, the equivocations, the jokes, the punchiness, the lack of earnestness.’ In fact, once you take […]
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, I never did that, but I remember that plenty of people used to.) Everyone now […]