http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I will be from tomorrow, since I start my new job! My first "real" job. So the quantity, but hopefully not quality, of my blogging is likely to decrease as I will not be able to blog for at least eight hours of the day! http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/working-9-to-5.html David Cameron and the Conservative Party are calling for Brown to "stop dithering" about whether or not to call an election, and effectively tells him to 'bring it on'. At the same time, William Hague says at the conference in Blackpool that "the Conservative Party is ready, it is hungry ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/bring-it-on.html We all know that Labour have continually failed the military over the past decade. But now Gordon wants them to go even further, despite number of wars in which they are currently engaged.Ministers have drawn up confidential proposals to slash the number of ships in the Royal Navy...The expected reductions ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/not-flash-gordon-but-slash-gordon.html This is just creepy and wrong:A 24-year-old Argentine man has married a woman 58 years his senior.The groom, Reinaldo Waveqche, told reporters after the ceremony in Santa Fe, northern Argentina: "I've always liked mature ladies."Mr Waveqche added: "I don't care what other people say." He and bride Adelfa Volpes, 82, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/848.html Sayeeda Warsi is accused of "pandering to racists" when she said:There are a lot of people out there who are voting for the British National Party and it's those people that we mustn't just write off and say 'well, we won't bother because they are voting BNP or we won't ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/of-course-we-should-engage-with-bnp-voters.html Alex Hilton, of Recess Monkey 'fame', has written an opinion piece in the Telegraph [via DK] in which he very much suggests that the next general election - whenever that is - will be fought on the internet.It certainly won't if it is this autumn. In fact, even if it ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/if-theres-an-election-it-wont-be-fought-on-the-internet.html Taxman Gordon and his 111 stealth taxes have been turned into a Pacman game by the Conservative Party. It's quite good timing considering the news that the tax burden has risen by 50% in the past decade.The aim of the game is to make money whilst avoiding taxman Gordon and ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/taxman-pacman.html A 50% increase in just a decade? Only Gordon could do it.The average family hands over 50 per cent more of their annual earnings in tax than they did before Labour came to power a decade ago...The soaring tax burden has been driven largely by the number of people falling ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/taxed-50-more.html Watford is a perfect microcosm of modern Britain. It has nice suburbs, ethnic-minority ghettos, gentrified houses and tower blocks. It has youths skulking in clouds of cigarette smoke on street corners, pedestrianised high streets sucked souless by chain stores – and it has apathy.Apathy despite the fact that people in ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/and-the-winner-in-watford-is-apathy.html The top 500 political blogs in the UK.54 in the Top 100 Centre-Right blogs and 135 in the top 500 Political Blogs. I'm happy with that! http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/09/as-voted-for-by-you.html