BNP, Politics, Race »

11 Mar 2010 | No Comment

The BNP have changed their constitution to allow “non-indigenous Britons” to join, but now it is being claimed that their new rules “indirectly” discriminate against black and Asian people:

[P]rospective members had to sign up to principles including a duty to oppose the promotion of any form of “integration or assimilation” that impacted on the “indigenous British”, and a requirement to support the “maintenance and existence of the unity and integrity of the indigenous British”.

So what precisely are the BNP doing? Oh, yes, asking their members to sign up to their …

Humour »

10 Mar 2010 | No Comment

Pundit Kitchen

Democracy, Devolution, England, English Parliament, Politics, Scotland, Wales »

3 Mar 2010 | 7 Comments

Over the past decade, support for an English Parliament has grown, from 18% to 29% – and 40% believe that the current “Barnett forumla” system is unfair.
The way devolution has been set up to work currently is untenable. There is a massive democratic deficit as Scotland and Wales both have:

Their own Parliament or Assembly with various law-making powers

More MPs than their population justifies

Scotland and Wales benefit massively from the Barnett formula, gaining £1-1.5k extra per person every year – all paid for by English taxes!

There is no denying that the …

Gordon Brown, The Economy »

2 Mar 2010 | One Comment

The mere prospect of Gordon Brown remaining as Prime Minister in a hung Parliament meant that the pound collapsed.

If the mere prospect of five years more of Brown sends the markets downhill, what damage would five more years do?! As the world’s buiggest bond funs manager, Pimco, says, we need drastic action to deal with government debt. Which only the Conservatives will do.
Labourites often accuse the Conservatives of “talking down the economy/pound”. This proves that campaigning for Labour and talking up their chances are the ones talking down the economy…. …

Party Funding, Politics »

1 Mar 2010 | No Comment

He shouldn’t be. I don’t think that non-doms should be allowed to sit in Parliament, in either Chamber. Hence my pleasure when Zac Goldsmith give it up. But the sheer hypocrisy of Labor over non-doms is astounding.
The Guardian has published the amounts received by Labour and the Conservatives from non-doms since 2001. Using some Excel formulas, the following stats emerge:

CONSERVATIVES
Lord Ashcroft personally donated £77,930
Bearwood Corporate Services donated £5,086,185.15
In cash: £1,626,365.69
Non-cash: £3,537,749.46
Conservative total: £5,164,115.15
LABOUR
Lakshmi Mittal donated £4,125,000
Sir Ronald Cohen donated £2,550,000
Caparo Industries PLC donated £45,000
Cash: £6,720,000
Labour total: £6,720,000

So Labour have received …

Politics, Polls »

1 Mar 2010 | No Comment

A ComRes poll shows that whatever happens at this years general election (whenever we get it), voters will be unhappy:

ComRes asked whether a particular result would make people feel happy or unhappy – and every option resulted in the “unhappies” winning.
The result that would spread the most gloom would be a hung parliament with Gordon Brown remaining as prime minister.
The results for this are:

Unhappy: 64%

Happy: 30%

The next worst option, on this measure, would be a hung parliament with David Cameron as prime minister.

Unhappy: 57%

Happy: 33%

Interestingly, the figures for a Labour …

Conservative Party, David Cameron »

28 Feb 2010 | One Comment

David Cameron today delivered a barnstorming note-less speech to the Conservative Spring Conference in Brighton. He made it clear that he desires to become Prime Minister for the best of the country:

Now we’ve got a maximum of 70 days between now and the general election that we must win. And you know what, this isn’t an election that it would be quite nice to win, because we’ve got some quite good policies, or quite good to win, because some of these people would make quite good ministers. It is an …

Claire Ward, Watford »

26 Feb 2010 | No Comment

It seems that there is no end to the lies that Claire Ward will peddle. Despite it having been made clear many times – including in a direct letter from Conservative Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
She is repeating her inaccurate allegations in her latest leaflet to be delivered across Watford in the few bits Labour still has volunteers:

Interestingly, in this latest leaflet Claire actually includes a photo of David Cameron – in the guise of the a mydavidcameron.com produced poster. It makes little sense that they would place Cameron’s photos …

Liberal Democrats, Watford »

25 Feb 2010 | No Comment

The Liberal Democrat Party in Watford have moved from bad to worse, and proven that their promises really aren’t worth anything at all. Not only did they break a promise made in 2007, but they have broken one made just two days before!
As I blogged yesterday, the Lib Dems published a quote in their leaflet purporting to be from the Watford Observer supporting their candidate, which was nothing of the sort. They had previously published precisely the same thing in 2007 and given “written assurance” that it would not happen …

David Cameron, Election, Gordon Brown »

25 Feb 2010 | No Comment

When we finally get to vote in this year’s general election, there is one question that must be asked and answered: who do you want to be Prime Minister, David Cameron or Gordon Brown?
If you want David Cameron, vote Conservative. A vote for any other party – whether they be Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, UKIP, or anyone else – is a vote for Gordon Brown.
Why? Because if the Conservatives do not get a majority in the House of Commons, Brown can remain as PM:

The convention is that the prime minister …