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241. The Coalition is packed with public relations men. So why haven't they been able to sell pension...

The press, radio, TV and the blogosphere will be filled for days with noisy comments on the state of the economy and the efforts of the Chancellor to pull it out of the mess left by the Great Borrower, Gordon Brown, and the architects of the euro disaster.Important as that is, there are other matters to be addressed. Some, like the great euro disaster, are not within our ability to put right. Indeed more and more people across the political divide are now concluding that the euro as it is cannot survive at all, and that without tremendous political and economic surgery, even a scaled down euro may be unable to survive for long. The best the UK can do is to avoid being dragged into that burning house and to make sure that the conflagration does not consume our own house.
URL: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100120727/the-coalition-is-packed-with-public-relations-men-so-why-havent-they-been-able-to-sell-pension-reform-to-the-british-public/ - 69KB - 29 Feb 2012
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242. Rolling blog on the release of the Leveson Report The Tory Diary

6pm Before we close this rolling blog, it’s worth highlighting the passage from the Leveson Report saying there is “no evidence� that Jeremy Hunt was biased when overseeing News Corp’s bid for BskyB. Here’s how it reads in the Executive Summary, with the key line in bold: “The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP also had strong views as to the merits of the bid. He too was entitled...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/11/rolling-blog-on-the-release-of-the-leveson-report.html - 88KB - 01 Dec 2012
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243. Conservative MPs 'in plot’ to topple David Cameron - Telegraph

A small group of Conservative MPs is trying to persuade colleagues to back a leadership challenge to David Cameron, Tories have said.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9542322/Conservative-MPs-in-plot-to-topple-David-Cameron.html - 69KB - 13 Sep 2012
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244. Osborne should announce an investigation of the dynamic effects of tax cuts in the budget The...

Perhaps George Osborne will scrap the 50p budget in the budget, or cut it to 45p, or do nothing at all. This morning's claims about his plans are more likely to come from the Liberal Democrats, in one of the further public negotiations that convey a loss of control by the Chancellor. You can find them in the Guardian and the Financial Times.But amist the froth are to be found two solid nuggets of fact.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/03/by-paul-goodman-perhaps-george-osborne-will-scrap-the-50p-budget-in-the-budget-or-cut-in-to-45p-or-do-nothing-to-it-all-t.html - 60KB - 16 Mar 2012
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245. Francis Maude gets new powers to speed up the bonfire of the quangos The Tory Diary

The Daily Telegraph reports today on Paymaster General, Francis Maude's bonfire of the quangos, which followed the Government's review of all public bodies in October 2010. So far, progress has been as fast as expected. The Telegraph says:* Of the 199 quangos that were set to be axed, just 53 had been abolished. * Only one of 120 bodies which was due to be merged – postal watchdog Postcomm – has been merged. * Only a single quango out of another 176 bodies which were set for reform has actually been reformed.However, the Telegraph's story also contains good news: the bonfire of the quangos has been given some much needed petrol, in the form of the Public Bodies Act, which was granted Royal Assent on Wednesday.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/12/francis-maude-.html - 68KB - 17 Dec 2011
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246. Owen Paterson joins Cabinet top ten after Eurosceptic intervention (while support for Clegg...

The end-December survey of ConHome members found a big jump in support for the Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Paterson. Paterson's intervention in the public debate about what Cameron should do in advance of the EU Treaty summit was another important signal to the Prime Minister that the party would not easily tolerate a bad deal. Paterson...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/12/owen-paterson-joins-cabinet-top-ten-after-eurosceptic-intervention-while-support-for-clegg-plunges.html - 57KB - 29 Dec 2011
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247. Matthew Sinclair: Abolish the EHRC, cancel high speed rail, cut business subsidies - how to save...

The largest savings to be found in the public sector tend to be in the biggest budgets: welfare payments and remuneration for staff. However it is also important to look at other, smaller budgets where it is possible to make cuts that don’t affect households in the same way. Any savings there will make the overall fiscal austerity package easier for families to bear. In this article I have looked at six: a further quango to abolish; cutting subsidies to business; freezing the foreign aid budget; cancelling high speed rail; and scrapping the Green Investment Bank.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thinktankcentral/2012/03/matt-is-director-of-the-taxpayers-alliance-the-largest-savings-to-be-found-in-the-public-sector-tend-to-be-in-the-biggest-b.html - 58KB - 08 Mar 2012
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248. Boris says he is 'different' from the Tories - Telegraph

Boris Johnson has claimed he is “different” from the Conservative-led government as he attempts to win voters’ support for a second term as Mayor of London.Mr Johnson said the result of Thursday’s election would show whether David Cameron’s plummeting poll ratings had compromised his own chances of success.The official Conservative candidate promised that, if elected, he would not duck a fight with the Chancellor, George Osborne, and would argue for more state money for Londoners.Mr Johnson’s remarks will be seen as an attempt to position himself as a separate brand from the Tories, as polling consistently shows his own personal popularity ratings to be far ahead of his party’s.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/london-mayor-election/9239217/Boris-says-he-is-different-from-the-Tories.html - 72KB - 01 May 2012
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249. Lord Ashcroft writes an open letter to Justine Greening: Overseas aid doesn't work and we can't afford it | ConservativeHome

By Lord Ashcroft, KCMG PC.Dear Justine,Congratulations on your new job. You will, without doubt, find the Department for International Development “Dfid” far more pleasant than your previous post in the Department of Transport. Yes, you will spend a lot of time in the air, giving you perhaps a fresh perspective on Britain’s aviation needs. But you get to travel the world like a medieval potentate, with politicians in the developing world keen to tap into your generosity. You will visit some of the world’s most wonderful nations and see some of the globe’s most stunning scenary. And you can spray around taxpayers’ money just like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did in the days before the banking crisis.The downside is you may not be very popular when you are in Britain. At a time when libraries are being closed and people with disabilities face benefit cuts, there is growing fury over giving away ever-increasing sums to foreigners. Despite the downturn, your department’s budget is the only one still soaring, set to grow 50% during the term of the Coalition from £7.8bn in 2010 to £11.5bn by 2015.Many Conservatives are horrified by this. They think it morally wrong to carry on giving away such vast sums abroad - more than £300 per household - at a time of domestic spending cuts. Others argue it is politically insane to modernise by currying favour with Guardian type readers that looks out of touch in current circumstances.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2012/09/lord-ashcroft-writes-an-open-letter-to-justine-greening-overseas-aid-doesnt-work-and-we-cant-afford-.html - 236KB - 17 Sep 2012
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250. Rotherham Council remove foster children from couple because they support UKIP | Local...

There is a chilling account in the Daily Telegraph of children being removed from foster carers by Rotherham Council. The foster carers were doing an "exemplary" job and the three ethnic minority children were thriving. However the social workers discovered that the couple were supporters of UKIP, and on those grounds the children were removed.The husband and wife have been fostering for nearly seven years, but fear that the council will not place children with them again. The couple "are in their late 50s and live in a neat detached house in a village in South Yorkshire. The husband was a Royal Navy reservist for more than 30 years andworks with disabled people, while his wife is a qualified nursery nurse." They are former Labour voters.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2012/11/rotherham-council-remove-foster-children-from-couple-as-they-support-ukip.html - 63KB - 24 Nov 2012
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251. Bristol Council covers up its history of backing colour bar on buses | Local Government

50 years ago today, after a boycott by passengers, the Bristol Omnibus Company ended their ban on employing ethnic minorities as bus drivers and bus conductors. Newsnight had a report on the matter last night.The "colour bar" was supported by region of the Transport and General Workers Union (as Unite the Union was then known.)Such a mentality in the trade unions was not unusual, at home or abroad. In South Africa the white trade unions keenly supported the "pass laws" which meant their members did not have to face a competitive labour market.There were other restrictions which had an indirect racist impact.Most notoriously the Dock Labour Scheme (abolished by Margaret Thatcher in 1989) effectively excluded black people from becoming dockers.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2013/08/racism-the-unions-and-the-bristol-bus-boycott.html - 58KB - 28 Aug 2013
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252. Ed Balls: Fool or Charlatan? | Roger Helmer MEP

Ed Balls is trying to get his rebuttal in first. Believing that George Osborne, in his Wednesday budget, will reduce the 50% income tax rate (either a principled move back to 40%, or perhaps a pusillanimous compromise at 45%), Balls has gone into attack mode. But his attack is not original. Indeed he is deliberately trying to trigger the heffalump trap that his mentor, Gordon Brown, left for an incoming Conservative government.Brown knew that a Conservative government would want to remove the 50% rate, both because the Conservatives (or some of them) are instinctively against high taxes, and because the economic case against this 50% rate is unassailable. As the forthcoming Treasury study will show, the 50% band collects much less tax than anticipated. Much less than a simple “static model” calculation would predict. And the economy being dynamic, not static, the amount collected will diminish over time, simply viewed as a tax band.But because it will also be a disincentive to work, and to effort, and to overtime, and investment, and business start-ups and capital accumulation, and wealth creation, it will have a still more malign effect. It will depress overall economic growth, and thus reduce tax revenue not only from the high-paid, but across the range. Income tax, VAT, corporation tax. Leave it in place for a few years, and we shall all be poorer.
URL: http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/ed-balls-fool-or-charlatan/ - 61KB - 02 Apr 2012
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253. Conservatives to block rise in IMF bail-out cash - Telegraph

Senior Tories in both the Commons and the Lords have said that they will seek to block any move by George Osborne, the chancellor, to bolster the International Monetary Fund to help the debt-ravaged European economies.The IMF has signalled it needs a further $500billion (£320bn) to help stabilise the global economy, a large part of which could be used to prop up Greece, Portugal and other struggling eurozone states.
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9061882/Conservatives-to-block-rise-in-IMF-bail-out-cash.html - 93KB - 04 Feb 2012
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254. A week after Miliband's pledge to reduce union influence, the GMB boast of their Parliamentary...

Despite its practical flaws, Ed Miliband's speech on Labour's union links appears to have put off his party's crisis on the subject for now. The obscure nature of the proposals, combined with a clever attempt to bounce the issue back onto the Conservatives, mean that the scandal has simmered down.But it hasn't gone away. While he carefully avoided committing himself to a timetable, at some point the press will expect to see results - and the unions are going to start squealing if he does take meaningful action to prevent their takeover attempts.A measure of the unions' commitment to their campaign comes in the summer edition of the GMB's in-house magazine (which bizarrely appears to have stolen its logo design from Heat and Nuts). The London edition is called Candid - and it lives up to the name.On page 11, GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny attacks Parliament, calling it a "phoney democracy". And he should know - on the very next page is a spread headlined "Look at our success", profiling those GMB members who have successfully been selected as Labour candidates and promoting the union's "political education" programme for new members
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2013/07/a-week-after-milibands-pledge-to-reduce-union-influence-the-gmb-boast-of-their-parliamentary-power.html - 53KB - 16 Jul 2013
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255. Harriet Harman: Help! Help! Theresa May has "dogged my path"...followed me round TV...

Never let it be said that the Daily Mail is incapable of squeezing every last drop of vinegar from the sponge.As I highlight in the newslinks below, the paper manages to cram into its headline reporting the Labour Deputy Leader's interview with Total Politics that she is:An Earl's niece,Attended a £20,000-a-year school,And is the daughter of a Harley Street doctor.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2012/07/harriet-harman-help-help-theresa-may-has-dogged-my-pathfollowed-me-round-tv-studioscriticised-what-w.html - 44KB - 22 Jul 2012
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256. Chris Heaton-Harris MP uses 60 adjectives to condemn building of wind farm Tory MPs

During Tuesday's Adjournment debate before the start of the Christmas recess, a number of Members spoke on energy and climate change. The most remarkable contribution to the debate came from Chris Heaton-Harris, the Member for Daventry. He used 60 - yes, sixty - adjectives to describe the decision to approve the building of a wind farm in his constituency:"That brings me to some unbelievably bad news I received yesterday about my constituency. There was—how can I put it?—a disgraceful, vulgar, disrespectful, terrible, shameful, contemptible, detestable, dishonourable, disreputable, ignoble, mean, offensive, scandalous, shabby, shady, shocking, shoddy, unworthy, deplorable, awful, calamitous, dire, disastrous, distressing, dreadful, faulty, grim, horrifying, lamentable, lousy, mournful, pitiable, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, sickening, tragic, woeful, wretched, abhorrent, abominable, crass, despicable, inferior, odious, unworthy, atrocious, heinous, loathsome, revolting, scandalous, squalid, tawdry, cowardly, opprobrious, insulting, malevolent, scurrilous and basically stinkingly poor decision of the Planning Inspectorate to approve the Kelmarsh wind farm, which will devastate huge swathes of beautiful rural Northamptonshire.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2011/12/chris-heaton-harris-mp-chhcalling-uses-60-adjectives-to-condemn-building-of-wind-farm.html - 153KB - 22 Dec 2011
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