http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yes We Carve http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/is-it-a-barack-olantern-or-a-jack-obama.html The National Black Police Association invited the wrong David Davis to speak at their conference. They had wanted former shadow home secretary David Davis, but instead invited David Davies, another Conservative MP with an interest in law and order (being a member of the home affairs select committee and a ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/racist-black-police-association.html Labour's anti-drugs campaign has not really achieved its aim. Why? Because cocaine used has doubled since it was launched. [Home Office] data show[s] that even after a modest fall in cocaine use from 2006/07 to 2007/08, the drug is roughly twice as heavily used now as it was a decade ago. Labour ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/smacked-up-labour.html It certainly does appear to, considering that it has got pretty much everything they wanted has happened. Frankly, it is disgusting the way that the BBC has caved in to the demands of the Daily Hatemail. After all, if being offensie was enough to get sacked, there would hardly be any ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/does-the-daily-mail-own-the-bbc.html Two days ago, there were 12 MPs yet to be nabbed for the "1984 aint an instruction manual" campaign to send a copy of George Orwell's most famous book to every MP in the Commons. But now all MPs have been accounted for. 646 copies of 1984 will arrive at the ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/1984-all-ready-and-raring-to-go.html I'm sad that David Tennant is to leave Doctor Who at the end of the four specials to be shown next year instead of a series. This is a bit of a surprise, since he was being reputed to be staying on until 2011. To be honest, what annoys me most ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/the-doctor-is-losing-a-regeneration.html Labour really are making a habit of stealing Tory policies, shortly after calling them unworkable, too expensive, or generally rubbish. A couple of quick examples: Inheritance tax and non-doms, shortly after George Osborne's 2007 conference speech, and Promoting marriage and the "traditional family" through the tax system. Now they're at it again, stealing the ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/more-policy-deja-vu.html This is a beautiful song, released by a singer-songwriter who has no manager, no record label and no PR budget, who wants to break into the Top 40 - and should be able to if she can sell 2,500 copies of her song, only available online - and for just ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/look-around-callaghans-chart-campaign.html The Labour Party, according to minister David Lammy, should learn from Barack Obama to "rediscover, renew and refresh" itself. Thing is, Labour can't learn from Obama and do what he has done - because Obama's slogan is "Change". Labour is Britain's Bush administration - mired in failure after years of government, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/labour-cant-learn-from-obama.html No matter what particular socio-economic group you refer to, positive discrimination still isn't a good thing. Whether it is ethnic minorities, women, or the white working-class. Or any other. Trevor Phillips is saying that: What we are seeing is that there is a whole group of people, a large proportion of whom ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/10/positive-discrimination-still-isnt-a-good-thing.html