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June 20, 2012 6:00 pm

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  • Newham Sue

    Call me naive, but I find it appalling that someone can openly reveal they feel the Hunt vote should have been a matter of party loyalty to a colleague  rather than a straight vote on whether someone had broken ministerial code and behaved in an unethical fashion. 

    • AlanGiles

      I agree. It shows just how far integrity has gone down in the list of people who presume to make laws for others.

    • John Dore

      I personally believe that Westminster turns you into exactly the kind of tribal animal that results in poor decisions. The Whip system should be disbanded.

  • https://mikestallard.virtualgallery.com/ Mike Stallard

    As a Tory Troll, I want to reassure you all that the discontent on the Conservative blogs (and indeed on Newsnight) is mounting and mounting.
    The main cause is Europe.
    Labour is terrified of once again being torn to pieces over Europe – as it once was over Mr Edward Heath’s decision to enter the Common Market.
    I think that history is just about to repeat itself.

    • AlanGiles

      Quite frankly I don’t think the public at large is as osessed by the EU as some newspapers, the Tory Right and UKIp think they are.

      They certain do stupid things that annoy (The Sound Copyright Act for example) – too many things to list, but most people are more concerned with the state of the country and how little the government seem to be able to suggest measures that will clean up our own problems. I am not at all convinced Labour is yet in a position to offer anything better, since they seem desperate not to upset the status quo.

      • https://mikestallard.virtualgallery.com/ Mike Stallard

        I am afraid I have to agree. Most people do not care and the politicians are not going to rouse the sleeping tiger!
        If you have cancer, you still look more or less the same. All you need to do is put on a bit more weight and get fit again!

        • timsharp1

          I agree with Alan, outside of the right the emotion about Europe doesnt really exist – I think watching the right tear itself up about the issue is a rather dull spectator sport, and maybe a self-indulgent one as it suggests that where the right could genuinely offer a contribution to getting the economy restarted they continue to be caught up with side issues.

          • https://mikestallard.virtualgallery.com/ Mike Stallard

            Tim, like I said, I am a Tory Troll.
             I think you do not appreciate how the Right thinks.We feel that there is a huge wave of people longing to be free of regulation, red tape and bureaucratic taxation. Europe is, we believe, the major player in providing all this stuff. Our own obedient Civil Service, we also believe, is joined at the hip to Berlaymont. Only by freeing up this wave of longing for economic freedom, will the economy be able, like a suddenly unchained animal, to leap forward.

            As I understand it, the left, and Stephanie Flanders of the BBC believe that the way to get the economy moving forward is for more control, more lending, more bureaucracy, more borrowing. State planning is paramount. And Europe, to them, is a side issue because it is for nerds.The reason why I am very afraid the Labour Party is going to win the next election is this: the right is splitting up into three different sections: UKIP, the LibDems and Mr Cameron’s Conservative Party (which is currently polling 60% or so).

            PS this is meant to be a helpful post, not an argumentative one!

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