tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post7452128953361177373..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Richard Spring To Leave ParliamentIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19986227301229558872009-11-23T21:40:23.168+00:002009-11-23T21:40:23.168+00:00So, Spring has sprung?So, Spring has sprung?Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-26460166039385146642009-11-23T16:03:06.149+00:002009-11-23T16:03:06.149+00:00Well, every cloud has a silver lining - it means a...Well, every cloud has a silver lining - it means another PPC place for you to stand for, Iain. Good luck son - 132nd time lucky, eh?The Amazing Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04269683258775831265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-35949636872384138362009-11-23T15:46:08.028+00:002009-11-23T15:46:08.028+00:00An all-women shortlist, no doubt. But be warned. A...An all-women shortlist, no doubt. But be warned. After the Turnip Taliban come the Suffolk Swedes, determined to resist the exclusion of the Deputy Leader of Suffolk County Council (a woman, for those who think that a candidate’s sex matters) from the shortlist to succeed her own retiring MP at Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. All of the shortlisted candidates for this Friday’s selection meeting are meterosexual.<br /><br />I have every sympathy with those Tories who still have an absolute commitment to the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, controlled importation and immigration, and a realistic foreign policy. They characteristically have a no less absolute, and indeed inseparable, commitment to the Welfare State (including farm subsidies), workers’ rights, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation (not environmentalism), fair taxation, full employment, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, and a base of real property from which every household can resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State. In a farming area such as Suffolk, invariably so.<br /><br />They are now getting the treatment meted out to those Labourities who had an absolute commitment to the Welfare State (including farm subsidies), workers’ rights, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation (not environmentalism), fair taxation, full employment, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, and a base of real property from which every household can resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State. They characteristically had and have a no less absolute, and indeed inseparable, commitment to the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, controlled importation and immigration, and a realistic foreign policy. In a mining and steelworking, Catholic and Methodist area such as County Durham, invariably so.<br /><br />We should get together sometime...David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-89543507005803636562009-11-23T14:45:17.851+00:002009-11-23T14:45:17.851+00:00@Opinicus
I suppose the first local Tory party wh...@Opinicus<br /><br />I suppose the first local Tory party which has an all women shortlist imposed will be rather annoyed?<br /><br />Notable, however, that Nadeen Dorries was selected from one with a majority of women I gather.<br /><br />So her fulmination son the topic might be taken with a sniff os salts . ..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85690882554345943342009-11-23T13:42:03.963+00:002009-11-23T13:42:03.963+00:00Presumably he's going now to prevent CCHQ bein...Presumably he's going now to prevent CCHQ being able to control his seat selection after the New Year?Opinicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18134092240378025330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76201172132719547662009-11-23T12:55:10.863+00:002009-11-23T12:55:10.863+00:00@Arden Forester
If all the good guys go what will ...<i>@Arden Forester<br />If all the good guys go what will we be left with? Apparatchiks and career politicians?</i><br /><br />"A" listers.Twighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698620636313191152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62890432107720616772009-11-23T12:32:56.922+00:002009-11-23T12:32:56.922+00:00If all the good guys go what will we be left with?...If all the good guys go what will we be left with? Apparatchiks and career politicians?<br /><br />Maybe Sir William Garrow should be resurrected and put in charge of things?Arden Foresterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03209824268395133604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-36088377120084364332009-11-23T11:08:15.397+00:002009-11-23T11:08:15.397+00:00He may rather doubt that there will ever be a Came...He may rather doubt that there will ever be a Cameron Government, Iain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-48701633422258695302009-11-23T11:05:15.988+00:002009-11-23T11:05:15.988+00:00Strange, he has the most empty Wikipedia profile I...Strange, he has the most empty Wikipedia profile I think I've seen for any MP.Michael Heaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815028897338910665noreply@blogger.com