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49. Strains in the Coalition?

The Lib Dems are sending warning noises. They are telling Conservatives that Conservative MPs have to vote for their House of Lords reform if we are to have their continued support for reducing the Commons to 600 seats as proposed and promised. Some are hinting that if Conservatives do not support them on Tuesday they will want to walk away from the Coalition.This is proving counter productive with some Conservative MPs. They argue that given the current state of the polls the Lib Dems are not going to want an early election.
URL: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2012/07/09/strains-in-the-coalition/ - 173KB - 17 Jul 2012
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50. Sajid Javid MP: How to rebuild the British economy | Conservative Home

Sajid Javid is the Conservative MP for Bromsgrove and was previously a senior Managing Director with Deutsche Bank. In this Platform, he builds on his Maiden Speech of last week, and argues that the global economic outlook puts even more pressure on us to start cutting public spending immediately.Not only have we inherited an utter economic mess from Labour but the global economic outlook is about to complicate matters further.Let’s remind ourselves of the domestic disaster that we have been left to clean up. At 12 per cent of GDP, Labour passed us the largest deficit in Europe. During their 13 years in office, Labour took our visible national debt from £351 billion to £894 billion, an increase of 155 per cent.Labour also mastered the dark art of off-balance sheet borrowing, in much the same way as RBS, Citibank and Enron did. For instance, our PFI liabilities are estimated to be at least £150 billion and our public sector pension liabilities an eye watering £2,000 billion. Combine these with the visible debt and, at £3,044 billion, you have one of the most indebted nations on Earth.
URL: http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2010/06/sajid-javid-how-to-rebuild-the-british-economy.html - 68KB - 30 Mar 2014
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51. Governments need to be seen to be in control

David Cameron has enjoyed two great successes as Prime Minister.He led western opinion on the subject of Libya, worked with France to intervene militarily, and presided over a successful military intervention which helped the rebels bring down the dictator. I did not myself think this a good way to spend UK money and risk lives, but I accept that he did it well and his international reputation was enhanced by it. It would be churlish to deny him the credit he is due for the successful action in its own terms.More importantly, he did refuse to allow the UK’s name to go on a new Treaty for fiscal austerity in the EU, and forced the partners to come up with an intergovernmental Treaty of 25 instead of an EU Treaty. This made him extremely popular with the public, reaching a temporary high of support.
URL: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2012/04/23/governments-need-to-be-seen-to-be-in-control/ - 240KB - 11 May 2012
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52. People are feeling the squeeze | John Redwood's Diary

Out on the doorsteps the voices of voters can be heard complaining of just how much money government takes from them in differing ways. There are many complaints about public sector car park charges, the Congestion Charge in London, the Council Tax, taxi licence charges, planning fees, Stamp duties, Child Benefit withdrawal, tax credit changes, higher National Insurance, rising postage stamp prices, the failure to increase the Age Allowance for pensioners, the charity tax allowance changes: I have even had a strong complaint about ice cream vendor licence charges. From public sector workers come worries about their pension contribution increases and the worsening of the terms of their pension plans.The doorsteps are reflecting the growing feeling I have that we have reached tax saturation point.
URL: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2012/04/15/people-are-feeling-the-squeeze/ - 284KB - 11 May 2012
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53. LDP's Japanese landslide may mean expansionary economic policy, less antagonism towards nuclear...

The Liberal Democrats who dominated Japanese politics for nearly all of the country's post-war period were booted from power three years ago as punishment for the country's decade of stagnation and for cronyism between an indebted political establishment and special interests. The LDP was re-elected, however, with a super-majority in weekend elections - winning in such a large landslide that they may be able to govern without worrying about the upper house's power of veto.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/international/2012/12/ldps-japanese-landslide-may-mean-expansionary-economic-policy-less-antagonism-towards-nuclear-power-.html - 47KB - 19 Dec 2012
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54. Why the Tories are ready to risk detonating the Brussels bomb - Telegraph

Withdrawal from the EU has changed from being a fringe view to mainstream opinion.When David Cameron became Tory leader seven years ago, William Hague is said to have delivered a stern warning on the subject of Europe. Stay well away, advised Mr Hague, who knew from brutal personal experience as Conservative leader the damage it was capable of doing. Mr Hague added that Europe should be regarded as a bomb that could never be defused, yet might well go off at any moment. The wisest course was to leave well alone and hope for the best.Mr Cameron took careful note. In opposition he did his best to avert trouble, and was almost excessively careful during the early period of government. Europe was the easiest part of the Coalition Agreement to negotiate, Mr Cameron having already abandoned his “cast-iron” guarantee of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. With only one admittedly very dramatic exception – last December’s treaty veto – his Government has concentrated on less perilous subjects.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9615124/Why-the-Tories-are-ready-to-risk-detonating-the-Brussels-bomb.html - 69KB - 17 Oct 2012
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55. Free-market Tories arrive to reel in Vince Cable - Telegraph

David Cameron used free-market Conservative MPs to curb the influence of the Liberal Democrats’ Vince Cable and give the Government a more business-friendly appearance.Michael Fallon, the Right-wing deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Mr Cable’s deputy at the Department of Business. Several other forceful Conservative advocates of free market reforms were appointed to new posts as Mr Cameron and George Osborne, the Chancellor, set out to kick-start the stagnant economy.Sources said that, in a calculated snub, Mr Cable was not consulted in advance on Mr Fallon’s appointment, an attempt to appease Conservative critics.Mr Cable is regarded by many Tories as unsympathetic to industry, and many hoped that Mr Cameron would use his reshuffle to oust him from the business department.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9521389/Free-market-Tories-arrive-to-reel-in-Vince-Cable.html - 69KB - 05 Sep 2012
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56. Rachel Frosh should not have been removed from the candidates list for saying Hitler was a Socialist

By Harry Phibbs Follow Harry on Twitter Dr Rachel Frosh has been removed the Conservative Party candidates list and forced to resign as the Deputy Police and Crime Comissioner in Hertfordshire. The reason was that she used her Twitter account...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2013/02/rachel-frosh-should-not-have-been-removed-from-the-candidates-list-for-saying-hitler-was-a-socialist.html - 159KB - 17 Feb 2013
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57. Tory grassroots see blue collar message as more important to Tory fortunes than Europe, crime or...

Nearly two weeks ago ConHome readers ranked the potency of 23 ideas to win the next election. Yesterday I noted the relatively weak showing of changing the leader to Boris Johnson or William Hague. Members said that greater party unity and greater loyalty to David Cameron were more likely to help the Tory cause.Today I report the strong showing for what I have described as conservatism for the little guy. Dom Raab MP has called it conservatism for the underdog. It's conservatism for Howard's battlers, Reagan's Democrats, Harper's Tim Horton voters, Thatcher's Essex Man. It's a conservative politics that understands that the party cannot win without solidarity with the striving classes. It's the 1992 model when John Major's mix of soapbox-and-Brixton-conservatism saw the party win 14,093,007 votes - more than any British party leader had won before or has won since.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/majority_conservatism/2012/08/tory-grassroots-see-blue-collar-message-as-more-important-to-tory-fortunes-than-europe-crime-or-immi.html - 37KB - 03 Aug 2012
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58. Shale gas is too important to abandon the debate to its scaremongering opponents The Tory Diary

Another day, another front page row about fracking. This time the Mail on Sunday has gone to town on Michael Fallon's comments about the impact of the process on the countryside: "Referring to people living in the countryside who have supported fracking, Energy Minister Michael Fallon said at a private meeting in Westminster: "We are...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2013/08/shale-gas-is-too-important-to-abandon-the-debate-to-its-scaremongering-opponents.html - 61KB - 04 Aug 2013
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59. Grant Shapps announces that Tories will select candidates on basis of EXISTING boundaries The...

In one of his first big decisions as the new Party Chairman, Grant Shapps has just told ConservativeHome that the party will start selecting candidates immediately after November's police commissioner elections for the party's target seats and, significantly, will be doing so on the basis of EXISTING constituency boundaries. This was something ConHome recommended one month ago.This will be taken by observers as acceptance by the Tory leadership that new boundaries will not get through the Commons. Mr Shapps insists, however, that neither he nor Number 10 Downing Street have given up on delivering equal-sized seats. Shapps points out that the decision still must come to the floor of the House for a vote, but that since this won’t happen for over year, it simply isn’t practical to do nothing in the meantime. Procedures will be put in place which will decide how adopted candidates are re-allocated to new seats if the new boundaries are eventually passed. All candidates seeking selection on existing boundaries will be expected to sign up, unconditionally, to these procedures.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/09/grant-shapps-announces-that-tories-will-select-candidates-on-basis-of-existing-boundaries.html - 60KB - 16 Sep 2012
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60. Labour are leaving Wales behind | Local Government

Overwhelmingly residents in Wales are facing an increase in Council Tax this month. Overwhelmingly in England there is a freeze or a reduction. In some places in Wales the increase is over 3.5%. In England that level of increase would require approval in a referendum. No English council has decided to chance it.But in Wales there is no need to get such approval from residents.The Labour-run Welsh Assembly Government oppose it. Plaid Cymru's Assembly member Llyr Huws Gruffydd agrees it would be"inappropriate."The Conservative's Shadow Local Government Minister in the Welsh Assembly Janet Finch-Saunders says:In 2010-11, local authorities in Wales spent over £630,000 on official cars and chauffeurs. Rhondda Cynon Taf and Blaenau Gwent each spent £90,000, while Bridgend spent £75,000 and Neath Port Talbot £70,000. I wonder whether the Minister was aware of those figures until I mentioned them. Local authorities spent an average of £1.5 million on printing and paper costs, but Swansea spent £0.5 million. Given that this is public money, this kind of information should be made available through online publishing, to enable processes to be examined and efficiencies to be identified.Labour Assembly member Jenny Rathbone opposes this, saying residents mustn't be "bombarded" with information. So it is better to keep spending secret. On Carmarthenshire Council, run by Independents and Labour, a blogger was arrested for filming a council meeting using her mobile phone, and led away in handcuffs
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/04/labour-are-leaving-wales-behind.html - 57KB - 20 Apr 2012
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61. Guardian misrepresent Conservative Home (shock) | Local Government

In 2009 Conservative Home ran an article by Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh and John Moss about the importance of reforming social housing. It said that many of the seats that the Conservatives hoped to win at that time had a high ratio of voters in social housing. Thus improving the chances for this group of people should be recognised as politically important. The article discussed ways of increasing home ownership - with proceeds allowing more new homes to be built. Also of reducing concentrations of worklessness through mised communities.Anyone who could present the article as a defence of gerrymandering must either be incredibly stupid or dishonest. Yet that is what my local Labour MP Andrew Slaughter has done.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/03/guardian-misrepresent-conservative-home-shock.html - 55KB - 24 Mar 2012
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62. Boris wins Rupert Murdoch's support for *2014* and Michael Howard's forgiveness The Tory Diary

Two pieces of news about Borismania. As I reveal in my column for today's Daily Mail I understand that Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson met recently and there was active discussion of a scenario in which David Cameron was replaced as Tory leader in 2014. The clear implication was that Mr Murdoch would throw the weight of The Sun behind Boris...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/08/boris-wins-rupertmurdochs-support-for-2014-and-michael-howards-forgiveness.html - 59KB - 04 Aug 2012
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63. There's nothing big society about capping big donations to charities The Tory Diary

George Osborne gave a good defence of his Budget yesterday, declaring that he wasn't in this for short-term politics but had taken decisions for the long-term competitiveness of the UK economy. Putting aside my belief that he should have done a lot more on competitiveness a lot earlier, should have accelerated spending cuts so he could afford substantial emergency tax relief for the low-paid and, thirdly, putting aside the Budget's dodgy presentation, I can't quarrel with most of the individual budget decisions. The so-called granny tax is perfectly justifiable given the heavy burdens on the young. The pasty tax clears up the anomaly whereby you pay VAT in a fish'n'chip shop but not for your pie in Greggs. The tapering of the child benefit policy tackles the cliff edge problem. Most of all the 50p and corporation tax cuts are vital for the UK economy's job creating potential (although if you are going to take the flak for lowering the top rate you might as well cut it to 40p and straight away).
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/04/theres-nothing-big-society-about-capping-big-donations-to-charities.html - 59KB - 09 Apr 2012
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64. The public finances under Margaret Thatcher and under the Coalition — compared The Tory Diary

Yesterday, we published online the column that I wrote for the ConHome conference newspaper last week, headlined "Let's look at the Thatcher years in full, not just in parts". Here, by way of an extended footnote, is something else that I wrote for the newspaper: a comparison of the public finances under the Thatcher governments and under the Coalition. Basically, I've focussed on three important metrics — real terms spending, spending as a percentage of GDP, and the structural deficit (taken here to be "cyclically-adjusted public sector net borrowing", but I shall write more about this tomorrow) — and produced graphs for each three, as well as some bullet-pointed context.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/10/the-public-finances-under-margaret-thatcher-and-under-the-coalition-compared.html - 62KB - 17 Oct 2012
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