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65. Saying "Better Off Out" was once enough to kill a career, but now the taboo is shattered

It was not so long ago that openly talking about leaving the EU was enough to make people think you were quite odd. Indeed, on launching the Freedom Association's Better Off Out campaign in 2006 I clearly remember several well-intentioned friends telling me that by doing so I was killing my campaigning career before it had started.Needless to say, things are very different today. The latest public figure to declare support for leaving is Helena Morrissey - a successful businesswoman and a prominent campaigner for better representation of women on boards, as founder of the 30% Club.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2013/07/saying-better-off-out-was-once-enough-to-kill-a-career-but-now-the-taboo-is-shattered.html - 60KB - 28 Jul 2013
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66. David Skelton: Let's offer trade union members free Conservative Party membership

There are almost seven million trade union members in the UK. In many of the marginal seats that Conservatives have to win to gain an overall majority in 2015, trade union members could hold the balance of power. The Party is right to disagree with the ideologically driven wreckers who lead the major unions, but that shouldn’t stop them reaching out to ordinary trade union members, many of whom are sympathetic to conservatism.Tory politicians should appeal to union members over the heads of the out of touch union leaders gathering at the TUC Congress this week. And they should learn from Margaret Thatcher when they’re trying to appeal to trade unionists. In 1950, Mrs Thatcher was elected President of the Dartford branch of Conservative Trade Unionists and, after being elected as party leader in 1975, she vastly expanded the organisation, to the extent that Conservative Trade Unionists had around 250 branches and held a major rally at Wembley before the 1979 election.And this courting of trade unionists was clearly successful, given that Mrs Thatcher gained more votes from trade unionists than Jim Callaghan in the 1979 election. She said that Conservatives should stand for the “majority [of the union movement] which is both reasonable and moderate.”
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2013/09/david-skelton.html - 252KB - 10 Sep 2013
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67. If we agreed a pact with UKIP, we would own their pain - and their problems The Tory Diary

A UKIP-related story has made a splash this morning. Here's another that can easily be imagined on the front page of the Guardian or the Independent, before being highlighted the whole day long on the BBC, from Today to Newsnight. Maggie Chapman, a UKIP election agent, has tweeted what supporters might call light-hearted observations, and opponents - plus a very large number of people who are neither - would call racist jokes. "EastEnders is just so unrealistic," one of them reads. "A Paki family planning to actually go home." There are more, including one playing on the verbal similarity beween Shiite - as in Shiite Muslims - and the swear word for excrement.My point is not that UKIP is a racist party. Indeed, the opposite is true: UKIP is not a racist party.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/11/by-paul-goodman-a-ukip-related-story-has-made-a-front-page-this-morning-heres-another-than-can-easily-be-imagined-on-the-fr.html - 60KB - 24 Nov 2012
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68. Osborne throws the kitchen sink at Balls... and Balls throws it back at Osborne The Tory Diary

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed their party to Conservative spending plans when they fought the 1997 election. Their shrinking of the target at which their enemies could fire set the tone for the next 20 years, followed as it was by one of biggest landslide victories in British history. Voters, the orthodoxy held, are always fearful that Labour, once translated from opposition to Government, will raise taxes more than a Tory Government; and the Conservatives (once the same translation has happened) will cut spending more than a Labour Government.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/12/osborne-throws-the-kitchen-sinks-at-ballsand-balls-throws-the-kitchen-sink-at-osborne.html - 66KB - 19 Dec 2012
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69. What good is a reshuffle without civil service reform? The Tory Diary

Another in our series of posts preparing for the reshuffle, and I'm afraid it’s the gloomiest so far. Remember how I said earlier that a reshuffle could have an effect on the internal mood of the Coalition? The flipside of that is that I doubt it could accomplish much more. When it comes to actually getting things done, there are reasons to...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/08/what-good-is-a-reshuffle-without-civil-service-reform.html - 61KB - 03 Sep 2012
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70. Portugal warns Britain: We switched to Berlin Time and it was a catastrophe | Daily Mail Online

As MPs prepare to vote on the proposal this week to move clocks forward by one hour, warning bells were sounded in Portugal, which went through a disastrous four-year experiment in the Nineties.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333760/Portugal-warns-Britain-We-switched-Berlin-Time-catastrophe.html - 351KB - 30 Sep 2014
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71. Thatcher's determination to buy Trident and defeat economic wets revealed in 1981 Cabinet papers...

In the week we learnt that Margaret Thatcher is still the Tory grassroots' favourite politician we get more insight into her government today. Under the thirty year disclosure rule the National Archive has released documents related to her government of 1981. The newspapers' coverage of those documents is summarised below.The Liverpool riots and northern declineArming the policeUnions were linked with riotersNavy cuts before the FalklandsNuclear deterrenceIRA hunger strikesWets versus dries: Norman Tebbit and Sir Keith Joseph worried that Margaret Thatcher risked going soft in taking tough economic decisions according to the Scotsman but her real battle was with the "wets", as the Yorkshire Post reports.Hosni MubarakIan Paisley and the PopeA French communist Mrs Thatcher didn't want to do business with.The ironING lady: "Cost-conscious Margaret Thatcher offered to pay for an ironing board for No 10 after becoming PM... She insisted on using her own household items because she feared political enemies might spark an expenses row over refurbishment work... Her prudent attitude is in contrast to MPs' claims for items like moat cleaning that shocked Britain in the expenses scandal in 2009."
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/12/thatchers-determination-to-buy-trident-and-defeat-economic-wets-revealed-in-1981-cabinet-papers.html - 62KB - 30 Dec 2011
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72. Lord Flight: Looking back at the Autumn Statement | Conservative Home

The extent to which EU requirements and directives are now actively damaging our economy and frustrating our ability to put things right is noteworthy.
URL: http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2013/12/lord-flight-looking-back-at-the-autumn-statement.html - 69KB - 11 Dec 2013
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73. The evidence supporting the claim that UKIP poses a threat to the Conservatives The Tory Diary

Labour and the Liberal Democrats between them polled over 15 million votes at the last election. UKIP gained less than a million. It stands to reason that targetting 15 million votes is more likely to lead to to electoral success than targetting a million. However, it doesn't follow that targetting that million votes is of no importance. Much...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/04/yet-more-evidence-of-ukips-threat-to-the-conservatives.html - 59KB - 12 Apr 2012
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74. A full list of Conservative tax pledges - thetorydiary

Following yesterday's NICs announcement CCHQ have supplied me with a full list of Tory tax pledges. National Insurance Contributions. Seven out of ten working families will be £150 a year better off under a Conservative government.Council tax. Council tax, in partnership with local councils, will be frozen for two years, paid for by reducing unnecessary Government spending, for...
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/03/a-full-list-of-conservative-tax-pledges.html - 63KB - 11 Apr 2010
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75. In every area of our public life, the Left is losing the argument – Telegraph Blogs

The facts of life are Conservative – as Labour’s smartest minds now realiseIt is now widely accepted that the years of New Labour government were an almost unalloyed national disaster. Whichever measure you take – moral, social, economic, or the respect in which Britain is held in the world – we went into reverse.Nevertheless, historians may come to judge that these 13 years of Labour misrule served a vital purpose. In retrospect, the Brown/Blair period may be seen as a prolonged experiment which taught the liberal Left that its ideas cannot work, do not work, and have no chance of ever working.It takes time to ruin a country. Four years, the average period between elections, was never going to be enough. But 13 years of Left-wing government has produced a mountain of evidence that the Conservative analysis is better and more truthful.
URL: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100127372/in-every-area-of-our-public-life-the-left-is-losing-the-argument/ - 66KB - 05 Jan 2012
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76. Welcome back to Britain - and politics-for-morons The Tory Diary

I return from a week in Poland to find Chuka Umunna declaring that voters deserve to know whether Ministers are benefitting financially from the budget's abolition of the 50p rate.This is standard political fare, but after a period away from British politics one looks at it - or at least I will for a while - in a fresh way.You can't say Chuka hasn't nailed down the main point! Osborne obviously cut the rate just to have a bit more cash in hand (not that he really needs it). Aiding the economy, boosting growth, doing his job and concern for the public good had nothing to do with his decision.The effect on Harriet Harman and other millionaires in Labour's Cabinet is obviously irrelevant. As are tax arrangments for Chuka's own family home.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/04/welcome-back-to-britain-and-politics-for-morons.html - 57KB - 09 Apr 2012
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77. Polls, polls, polls

It’s the voters turn to say what they think.In France it looks as if an other incumbent who has presided over the Euro crisis, another supporter of Euro austerity, is about to lose office. Latest polls shows Mr Sarkozy trailing Mr Hollande by between 6% and 11%. If Mr Hollande wins, expect rapid moves to bring him on board for the austerity treaty of late last year, sweetened by some kind 0f Growth package to be agreed with Germany and the Commission. Do not expect a radical change in the EU’s approach to the Euro.In Greece the two larger parties of past elections and the last Parliament saw much lower poll ratings in recent months. Pasok, the current ruling party, saw its rating slump from 38% in January 2011, to around 14% in the last permitted polls. New Democracy has had a smaller fall, from 30% to 23%. They do not allow polls close to the election.
URL: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2012/05/02/polls-polls-polls/ - 170KB - 11 May 2012
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78. "We wouldn't need the 50p tax if we taxed the Lib Dems every time they leaked stuff" The Tory...

Fraser Nelson is delighted at the prospect of the abolition of the "sadistic" 50p tax rate. But also at The Spectator, Alex Massie, warns that it will be a "PR disaster" if Osborne announces a tax cut for the top 1% while freezing public sector pay etc etc. Both are reacting to today's sensational Guardian claim that George Osborne will, after all, get rid of Gordon Brown's latter days tax hike.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/03/we-wouldnt-need-the-50p-tax-if-we-taxed-the-lib-dems-every-time-they-leaked-stuff.html - 59KB - 16 Mar 2012
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79. Today's Boris interview in the Sun is a reminder of how effective his campaigning is The Tory...

After yesterday's YouGov poll which placed Boris Johnson two points behind Ken Livingstone in the race to become London's Mayor, a timely interview today in the Sun demonstrates Boris' ability yet again to draw on the national interest in jobs and immigration, and develop a balanced message for his electoral campaign.Whilst Government figures have revealed that 370,000 migrants are claiming benefits in the UK, and unemployment has hit a seventeen year high of 2.68 million, it would seem an obvious, not to mention populist choice, for Johnson to claim that immigration has failed and is damaging the jobs market for young Brits.Instead, Boris chose to focus his attention on the lack of "energy and appetite" among young people in the UK to go out to work. Johnson said that he did not "want to stigmatise young people because many of them do have the aptitude. But we need to face up to these issues". At the same time, he cited the increasingly popular analogy of Pret A Manger and work ethic from their foreign staff:
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/01/boris-interview-in-the-sun-is-another-example-of-how-effective-his-campaigning-is.html - 57KB - 20 Jan 2012
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80. Cumbria County Council bans opposition councillors from meetings | Local Government

Most councils operate a Cabinet system. The councillors who are Cabinet members have long briefing meeting with council officers in private to discuss what decisions to take. Then the formal Cabinet meetings are in public. These offer a chance for the public and opposition councillors to challenge proposals, or raise points of detail, before final decisions are taken.Some parts of these meetings are held in private when there are items of commercial sensitivity being discussed - for instance awarding contracts. The usual form here is that the press and public are excluded for these items, but that opposition councillors are able to attend.However at Cumbria County Council, now Labour led, the Conservative opposition councillors have been excluded from an item concerning a new council headquarters.
URL: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2013/08/cumbria-county-council-bans-opposition-councillors-from-meetings.html - 58KB - 16 Aug 2013
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