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177. Nick Faith: So Osborne wants to boost the north. Good. But he needs policies that will do the job.

‘Growth must reach the North and low-earners’. The headline of George Osborne’s article in The Times caught my eye this morning. Instead of slapping himself on the back, the Chancellor used yesterday’s positive growth figures to send out a message that he intends to create the conditions for private sector job creation outside the south east.This is a hugely significant intervention. To date, the Conservatives' strategy has been focused on painting themselves as the only party that can be trusted to take the hard economic decisions for the long term benefit of the country. At every opportunity, Labour politicians – notably the two Eds - have been ruthlessly portrayed as big spenders unable to manage the country’s credit card. Downing Street wants people to believe that Balls wouldn’t look out of place on a shopping spree with Carrie Bradshaw (she of Sex in the City fame).
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2013/07/from-nickfaith82-so-osborne-wants-to-boost-the-north-good-but-he-needs-policies-that-will-do-the-job.html - 250KB - 26 Jul 2013
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178. To slay the health and safety monster the "six pack" must go. | Local Government

A proposal to reopen an historic promenade paddling pool is under threat as Wirral Council says that £350,000 should be provided to cover the costs of safety inspections for the next 100 years. The pool has been left empty for the last 30 years and vandalised. So now in a triumph for health and safety this situation is set to continue.These sort of instances take place constantly around the country so the Prime Minister is right in his ambition to bring the situation under control.Where did it all go wrong?? The answer is clearly the introduction of the 6 pack in 1992. Much of these regulations unnecessarily duplicated the general provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 not to mention, duplicating themselves. Overnight regulation became awkward with common themes of competency, risk assessment and maintenance marbled through most of the new regulations. It would have been far more sensible to have considered all new regulations together to ensure there was little cross over. For example the H&S at W etc Act deals with training, so do most of the 6 pack.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/01/to-slay-the-health-and-safety-monster-the-six-pack-must-go.html - 58KB - 06 Jan 2012
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179. Jesse Norman MP: It's time for the Co-op to ballot its members about its relationship with...

Jesse Norman is the Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire. His new biography of Edmund Burke has just been published. Follow Jesse on Twitter. As ConservativeHome readers will be aware, I am a huge believer in the virtues of co-ops, mutuals and employee ownership. In the early 1990s...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2013/06/from-jesse_norman-its-time-for-the-co-op-to-ballot-its-members-about-its-relationship-with-labour.html - 32KB - 21 Jun 2013
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180. Cameron: 'It's time to mug a hoodie': PM promises to seek 'retribution' against law breakers in new anti-crime crackdown | Daily Mail

David Cameron will ditch his ‘hug a hoodie’ image on law and order tomorrow and promise to seek ‘retribution’ against law breakers.After a week that has left him reeling – over energy policy, George Osborne’s train ticket and Andrew Mitchell’s resignation – the Prime Minister hopes to repair the damage with the announcement of a new crackdown on crime. Measures will include:* Fines for prison bosses who fail to stop criminals re-offending after release, in a new ‘paid by results’ system.* Life sentences for gun-runners who supply lethal weapons to gangsters.* An ‘element of punishment’ in community sentences, which have been dismissed as a soft option by Right-wingers. * Possible axeing of the custom of giving all prisoners £46 cash when they are freed from jail.* Curbs on ‘cushy’ jail regimes where prisoners can spend all day watching TV.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220757/David-Cameron-PM-promises-seek-retribution-law-breakers-new-anti-crime-crackdown.html - 201KB - 21 Oct 2012
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181. Tory MPs at war with each other The Tory Diary

I'm in a bit of a rush tonight so forgive the brevity but two notable meetings tonight. Meeting one was a meeting of Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPSs) where it was suggested to that they call back the 301 Group's slate of candidates in the forthcoming 1922 elections. I recently blogged about this slate. There have been suspicions that...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/05/tory-mps-at-war-with-each-other.html - 56KB - 11 May 2012
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182. The Sun's anger at Osborne is a warning that Tory High Command is still failing to reach the...

After last year's Autumn Statement The Sun decided that George Osborne was the 'Tin Man'. The newspaper blasted the Chancellor's lack of boldness on growth. The occupant of Number 11 isn't getting any more popular in Britain's best-selling newspaper. Over the last 48 hours he's faced terrible headlines in all newspapers but The Sun has provided the most worrying attacks. On inside page after inside page the headlines have been grim, grim, grim...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/03/the-suns-anger-at-osborne-is-a-warning-that-tory-high-command-is-still-failing-to-reach-the-strivers.html - 61KB - 24 Mar 2012
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183. Ken Livingstone's spending plans would cost every London council tax payer £348 | Left Watch @ ConHome

A new report released today by the Back Boris campaign reveals the impact every family in London will face if Ken Livingstone was to win this May's mayoral election - £348 in council tax increases, and an increase in the Congestion Charge.The report, entitled "Can't Afford Ken", notes that Livingstone has made 24 spending promises that cost more money than is in the budget. These spending commitments have been made either in public speeches or in documents after he was selected as Labour’s candidate. They include a transport fare cut, a pledge to replace the withdrawn EMA scheme, a London-wide lettings agency, an "Air Quality Improvement Fund", a "Cinema Discount Card" for young people, and, bizarrely, a party in Trafalgar Square just for the Portuguese-speaking diaspora.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2012/04/ken-livingstones-spending-plans-would-cost-every-london-council-tax-payer-348.html - 44KB - 13 Apr 2012
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184. An unsettled Boris Johnson courts Westminster's awkward squad - Telegraph

Boris's supporters are optimistic that he'll be in a safe Tory seat come May 2015, but they know that there's more work to do.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10636274/An-unsettled-Boris-Johnson-courts-Westminsters-awkward-squad.html - 71KB - 14 Feb 2014
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185. CentreRight: Blaming Gordon for the recession

One of the arguments in the election campaign is whether Gordon Brown can be blamed for the recession. Labour says he is blameless because it is a world recession. But Britain has been worst hit among the making economies and I've blogged before on why Brown has responsibility for making it worse in three ways by mistakes he made before it started. Firstly, presiding over an explosion of state borrowing. Secondly, moving bank regulation from the Bank of England too the Financial Services Authority. Thirdly, by changing the classification of inflation from the Retail Prices Index to the Consumer Price Index which ignored overheating in the housing market and obliged the bank of England to set interest rates lower than they should have been.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2010/03/blaming-gordon-for-the-recession.html - 75KB - 27 Mar 2012
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186. The Government's own energy calculator shows that there's no alternative to nuclear power The...

By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter Christopher Booker today ridicules the Government's 2050 pathway calculator - an interactive device published by the Climate Change Department. The calculator allows its users to pretend to oversee Britain's future energy policy. Booker repeats Tim Worstall's argument that the calculator is biased cost-wise in favour of renewable energy and...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/01/by-paul-goodmanfollow-paul-on-twitter-christopher-booker-today-ridicules-the-governments-2050-pathway-calculator-an-intera.html - 59KB - 08 Jan 2012
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187. PMQs: When in trouble, blame Ken Livingstone The Tory Diary

I usually wonder before PMQs what Miliband will choose to go on. But there was no mystery earlier today this morning about what his choice would be: the budget "omnishambles".Cameron's response wasn't so much to throw up chaff - a frequent gambit when under pressure - as to chuck a bucket of ordure over Ken Livingstone and his tax affairs.As ever, the Whips were happy to help. George Freeman re-raised Livingstone's tax arrangements. Andrew Selous then re-raised them.If viewers remember one thing about this tax-concentrated PMQs session - charities, families, pasties, caravans and all - the Prime Minister wants it to be: Livingstone avoids his fair tax share.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/04/pmqs-when-in-trouble-blame-ken-livingstone.html - 58KB - 18 Apr 2012
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188. Dodgy migration statistics prove doubters right - and pose a serious threat at the next election...

Early in June, I wrote a reply to a Peter Kellner article in which he lamented that the public are illogical and don't trust official statistics. "Don't pity the rational politician - applaud the sceptical electorate. They are often absolutely right" was my conclusion, given years of misleading data - particularly on immigration.Today, a new report from the Public Administration Select Committee reveals that the statistics those claims are based on are little better than a guesstimate. Rarely have I been more frustrated to be proved correct.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2013/07/dodgy-migration-statistics-prove-doubters-right-and-pose-a-serious-threat-at-the-next-election.html - 61KB - 28 Jul 2013
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189. Roger Helmer MEP: Climate alarmism is falling out of favour in the rest of the world - but...

We might as well hang up a sign in the airports: "Closed for Business". While EU leaders pontificate about prioritising growth and jobs, we have climate mitigation policies in place that massively raise energy costs and force industries, companies, jobs and investment out of the EU altogether. In the name of environmentalism, we force them to go off-shore, to jurisdictions with lower environmental standards. It's a whole spectrum of energy-intensive businesses. Metals like steel and aluminium -- a highly energy-intensive industry. Cement. Chemicals. Glass. Paper and wood-processing. We talk about "rebalancing the economy towards manufacturing" and in the next breath propose "a floor price for carbon". Then we wonder why industry sails off into the sunset. I have been writing about this for years, but it was brought home to me with added force at a dinner-briefing last night hosted in Brussels by EUROFER, the European Steel Association. Normally at these events there are speeches/briefings/presentations followed by a debate with interventions from the floor. In this case, after a couple of speeches, attention turned to dinner and the debate never happened. My carefully-crafted question was condemned to languish un-asked, so I'll ask it now.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/02/from-rogerhelmermep-climate-alarmism-is-falling-out-of-favour-in-the-rest-of-the-world-but-europe-ha.html - 211KB - 01 Feb 2012
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190. Daniel Hannan MEP: Thomas Jefferson, Anglosphere hero Conservative Home Columnists

When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, he included a wistful line that was excised by the other signatories: ‘We might have been a great and free people together’.Until that moment, the idea that Americans were engaged in a war against a foreign power would have struck Patriots and Loyalists alike as bizarre. Jefferson, like other Virginia radicals, saw himself as a British Whig, heir to the tradition of Edward Coke (1552–1634), John Hampden (1595–1643) and Algernon Sidney (1623–1683). He did not believe he was laying claim to any new rights; rather, he was defending the liberties that he assumed he had been born with as an Englishman. Right up to the end, he had hoped that such liberties might flourish under the Crown, but George III dashed his ambition. We sense Jefferson’s bitterness in the Declaration’s telling complaint about the king ‘transporting hither foreign mercenaries’. Foreign! How historians have glossed over the significance of that word. In sending his Hessian hirelings against Britons, the Hanoverian monarch was in effect annulling their nationality.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thecolumnists/2013/07/from-danhannanmep.html - 32KB - 07 Jul 2013
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191. Councillor Gareth Elliott: A bigger private sector would do more for poorer children Comment

The privatisation of national assets has always been a highly politically charged topic. Harold Macmillan famously likened Margaret Thatcher’s programme to “selling off the family silver”. Yet for all the scaremongering, the result has generally been a huge success. The UK’s car industry has gone from basket case to one of the most efficient in the world. Nobody today would seriously call for the renationalisation of BT, which is spending over £2bn on super-fast broadband, whilst our flag carrier, BA, is still a national champion; in fact, it is one of the most successful airlines in the world. The experience of privatisation is therefore one of success.Yet there are still areas where private enterprise cannot tread, and not because it couldn’t succeed, but because it is politically unpalatable. Education is one such example, yet it is potentially an area where the private sector could really make a difference.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/04/gareth-elliott.html - 218KB - 09 Apr 2012
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192. Wasteful spending of Labour councils refusing to freeze Council Tax | Local Government

Plenty of Labour councils claiming they have "no alternative" to Council Tax increase despite the offer of Government funding to finance a Council Tax freeze.Here are some examples of councils planning Council Tax rises for 2012/13 and and their misguided priorities when it comes to spending their residents money.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/01/wasteful-spending-of-labour-councils-refusing-to-freeze-council-tax.html - 59KB - 23 Jan 2012
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