An excellent new tool via MyConservatives.com: Welcome to MyConservatives. MyConservatives is a new online network that gives you the tools to campaign for the candidates you support, and issues that you care about. Here are some of the things you can do: Take part in campaign activities and social action […]
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Campaign: “There’s Nothing British About the BNP”
Tim Montgomerie has launched There’s Nothing British About the BNP. Sign the petition declaring your support here. See also IDS writing on ConservativeHome: Reflections on a visit to Auschwitz amid political crises back home. For an insight into the surprising kind of society which degenerates into barbarism, see Haffner’s Germany: Jekyll […]
Read MoreFight against terror ‘spells end of privacy’
How I look forward to The Convention on Modern Liberty: Sir David Omand, the former Whitehall security and intelligence co-ordinator, sets out a blueprint for the way the state will mine data – including travel information, phone records and emails – held by public and private bodies and admits: “Finding […]
Read MorePlease sign Telegraph Sport’s petition to help save sports facilities
Local communities are losing their sports facilities and squash clubs at an alarming rate. This can be stopped by strengthening a Government planning law called the PPG17. So, please Sign Telegraph Sport’s petition to help save sports facilities.
Read MoreModern Liberty
Via Spy chief: We risk a police state – Telegraph: Dame Stella [Rimington, ex-head of MI5,] accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists. “Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the […]
Read MoreLabour’s Debt Crisis Campaign
The Conservatives have launched a campaign highlighting the human consequences of the current debt crisis. You can learn more here. Indebtedness is one of five main pathways to poverty. You can find analysis and proposals from the Centre for Social Justice here.
Read More“Buoyancy and hope”
This blog began as a commentary on a life spent seeking fully to live. As I reflect on it today, I see it has become not only a partial record of my transition to aspiring politician, but one of many online litanies of the state of the United Kingdom today. […]
Read More“You can get it if you really want” poster 8
“You can get it if you really want” poster 8, originally uploaded by conservativepartyuk. I love these posters: it must be the sky… I am not responsible for the content of other people’s Flickr photostreams.
Read MoreDespicable fighting from the Liberal Democrats
The LibDems have produced an apparently independent political leaflet which appears to have a contribution from Boris backing their candidate. It also misleads about John Howell. For those who culture a reputation of being the principled people of politics, this is vile. read more | digg story
Read More“You can get it”
Well, where have all my posts gone? Apart from working and commuting, I have been focussing on meeting people in politics. I joined the Conservative Front Bench Club, which led to some illuminating meetings and introductions. I am developing a real confidence in the Conservatives’ ability to deliver meaningful change […]
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