Tory Watch 1: Planning
Friday, March 5th, 2010The launch of the new Conservative green paper on Planning was buried on its launch day by Cameron and Coulson! Officially, they pulled coverage so not to detract from the battering Brown was taking over being a bully. But on reading the document I suspect that they simply did not want to draw attention to [...]
Conference Score Draw?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008The conference season has ended in a kind of stalemate. Maybe the polls will start to tell a different story over the next couple of weeks. But the financial crisis has drawn out the difference of the two main parties. Each Party not only has a different story to tell but they face distinctly individual [...]
Despatches from the Tory Front Line - Birmingham
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008The Tories are in town and they’re everywhere. It’s all very unsettling!
Last night I was in one of Birmingham’s posher restaurants. In they came in their droves. A private party was in the back of the restaurant and, near me, every party seemed to be taken up with male delegates from the conference. George Osborne [...]
Cameron’s Centralising Conservative Con
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007You’ve got to hand it to the Tories. They’re taking their chances following Labour’s late summer collapse. Their media management is far, far, better than it was a few months ago. But their policies are not getting the scrutiny they deserve.
Today’s initiative is about local government, and more specifically the Council Tax - understandable that, [...]
