http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Peter Mandelson is actually doing something positive for the country! I know that you're probably sceptical of this, but it's true - he is indeed: Peter Mandelson is at the centre of a Whitehall row over a planned clampdown on cigarette sales which threatens to overshadow this week's Queen's Speech. Alan Johnson, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/perhaps-mandelsons-not-all-bad.html How and what MPs should write in their letters needs to be "clarified" to prevent it being used for purely party political processes. To be honest, I can't see how it's really all that complicated. The rules are simple: Do not use pre-paid envelopes or official stationery for party political or ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/mps-letter-writing.html The Northern Monkey feature has, once again, been noticeable by its absence. However, I once again have an excuse. My long suffering laptop finally croaked its last, and left me without free browsing time to call my own. Leaving me with the long search to find a replacement. What made the search ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/the-flaws-in-technology.html The Conservatives are beginning to really start pushing the online battle back towards Labour. I commented a while back on the Labour's far more web-orientated economic propaganda - even though it was pretty useless, as it was too large to be embedded in a blog, even in the main post! But ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/my-debt-thanks-to-labour.html Harmless or just armless? Chinese police have pulled over a man driving a 4x4 only to find that he had no arms... The man told traffic police that ever since he lost his arms in an industrial accident several years ago, he had used his feet to steer his vehicle without difficulty. ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/armless.html Michael Brown, the Lib Dems largest donor ever, has been convicted of being a bogus businessman. He donated £2.4 million to them in 2005, but it has now been revealed that his company, 5th Avenue Partners - through which he donated the money - was "just a sham". Political parties are ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/lib-dems-to-go-bankrupt.html What is the job of an Opposition MP? To hold the government to account. And this applies double to a shadow minister. So why was Damian Green arrested - and arrested under counter-terrorism laws? His supposed crime is "aiding and abetting misconduct in public office," by which we can translate into ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/damian-green-arrested-for-doing-his-job.html Alistair Darling has already had to start backtracking on the measure announced in the Pre-Budget Report - aka the emergency budget. The Chancellor was forced to backtrack on a key element of his Pre-Budget Report (PBR) on Wednesday after he admitted that the Treasury had got its sums wrong and raised ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/get-a-calculator-darling.html For the first time in ten quarters - 2 and a half years or, to put it another way, since Gordon Brown became leader - Labour raised more money than the Conservatives. Between July and September this year, Labour raised £5 million and the Conservatives raised £4 million. In contrast, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/political-donations-3.html Via Tyger, on how people in Nottinghamshire handle the cold war with the next village. The minutes of the Eakring Annual Parish Council meeting made it onto the BBC Radio 4’s comedy show, The News Quiz : Any Other Business   1. Tree cutting on Back Lane was discussed. The following things arose ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/dont-mess-with-eakring-punk.html