Via The Conservative Party | News | Speeches | David Cameron: Reducing the burden and impact of health and safety, David Cameron further sets out his vision to turn Britain around: Three weeks ago at the Young Lecture I said that the ultimate ambition of a future Conservative Government was […]
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Brian Micklethwait on Toby Baxendale
Brian Micklethwait on my colleague, Cobden Centre Chairman, Toby Baxendale: …You don’t get from seventy grand in debt at the age of twenty one to running a company that turns over a hundred million quid a year before you are even properly middle aged without having something about you. … […]
Read MoreColloquium on Sound Money
I subscribe to the view that our present economic and financial woes were caused by the government. Via The Cobden Centre, you can see we are working on doing something about it: Through tomorrow and Saturday, ESCP Europe and The Cobden Centre are hosting a Colloquium on Sound Money. The […]
Read MoreQueen’s Speech: 15 Bills, but only 33 days left of Parliament – Times Online
The Queen’s Speech: 15 Bills, but only 33 days left of Parliament: Labour has today promised “guarantees not gambles” as it used the final Queen’s Speech to draw dividing lines with the Conservatives ahead of the general election. The Queen set out the Government’s legislative agenda for the 33 sitting […]
Read MoreIt’s time to transfer power from the central state to local people
This post has been brought forward from February and updated. Conservatives want to build a stronger, safer society where opportunity and power are spread much more widely and fairly. We believe communities are strongest when everyone has a free and fair say in the decisions that affect them. From local […]
Read MorePlans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of ‘Armageddon’ – Telegraph
Via Plans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of ‘Armageddon’ – Telegraph: Health service managers warned of an “Armageddon scenario” facing NHS finances as they draw up secret plans for swingeing hospital cuts. Senior officials have set “aggressive” targets to reduce the number of patients referred to specialists, […]
Read MoreEU faces ‘existential’ danger from economic crisis – Telegraph
This morning, I woke early and finished The Great European Rip-off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of Our Lives. I then discovered this article in the Telegraph: The global financial crisis has inflicted such damage to free market principles that it risks undermining the core function of […]
Read MoreBribing voters with their own money is no longer an option – Telegraph
Frank Field writes in the Telegraph: The point is that ever since 1945, parties have competed for votes by promising to expand public expenditure. Bribing voters with their own money has been the order of the day. Now the tables have turned. Parties will be judged on how effectively they […]
Read MoreThe CPS on benefits, reform, big government and data
I am an Associate Member of the Centre for Policy Studies and I always enjoy reading their pamphlets: they remind me I am not alone. I caught up with the following four yesterday on the train. The theme? Putting humanity back into our society. Click the images to download the […]
Read MorePolitics in the noughties
Researching for my constituency applications, I revisited Carswell and Hannan’s The Plan, and rediscovered: To put it starkly, the political party as an organism – a complex structure bringing together local branches, clubs, activists, sympathetic newspapers, professions, trade unions, churches and pressure groups – is dying. The modern political party […]
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![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n-320x320.jpg)
![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n.jpg)
