http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first act of an incoming Conservative government may well be to create a Domesday book analysis of the nation's situation, detailing the nations position precisely. The main intention will, of course, to place a great big millstone around the neck of the Labour Party. It will make the Conservatives able ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/21st-century-domesday-book.html It's been a very pleasant day 'oop North today. A bit brisk temperature wise with a nasty wind, but the sun was shining to create some wonderful scenes. I had to head down to Cockermouth today, the birthplace of William Wordsworth (and Jennings beer). It's great to be able to travel ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/view-from-the-north-literally-for-once.html http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/cash-for-laws-the-video.html How stupid do they think people are? Ballot papers for European Parliament elections are to make it extra clear voters have to put an "X" in the box... The wording at the top of ballot papers for MEPs is to be changed to read: "Vote once (x) in one blank box."... It follows ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/put-an-x-in-the-box.html An official review has concluded that confidential government papers should be published after 15 years, rather than existing 30 year gap. Of course, by "published" they actually mean that the files are just made available to the public in the National Archives, rather than actively published. This would, they say, strike a ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/publishing-secret-files.html The House of Lords has been getting a bit of a battering in the press recently, after the "cash for laws" scandal erupted, over four Labour life peers who appearing willing to take money in order to put forward amendments to Bills before the House. And since then, allegations have ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the-lords-we-the-people.html Warning: Don't watch whilst drinking. http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/how-do-barack-and-michelle-obama-show-their-affection-for-each-other.html The IMF has concluded that, contrary to Gordon Brown's oft-made claim that "Britain is best placed to survive this recession" is a load of rubbish. They predict that the global economy will grow by just 0.5% in 2009, down from 3.4% in 2008 and 5.2% in 2007. Britain's economy, however, is ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/britain-is-actually-worst-placed-gordo.html - and another for us. ContactPoint, the database to include the details of all under-18s, will be accessible by more than 330,000 state workers. But the provision to hide all but the bare minimum information will be available only to people such as "celebrities, politicians and other high profile members of ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/one-rule-for-them-2.html David Cameron has declared that as Prime Minister, he would publish the government's files on UFOs: I think we should be as open as possible, so I would be quite happy to give you a guarantee that if I became Prime Minister I would always be entirely open and frank about ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2009/01/cameron-would-publish-the-x-files.html