tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post7648966686608338214..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Time to Re-evaluateIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-10447625750347104082007-09-21T07:14:00.000+01:002007-09-21T07:14:00.000+01:00The one thing I cannot swallow is the commitment t...The one thing I cannot swallow is the commitment to match Labour's spending plans for three years after an election victory. <BR/><BR/>If I want high taxes I can vote Labour. Labour believes in high taxes and can argue for them with conviction. The Tories don't really believe in high taxes. They just think that's what you have to say if you want to get elected.<BR/><BR/>Why should I vote for people with no convictions?<BR/><BR/>Voters of my mind should simply write 'Less Tax' on their ballot slip. All spoilt ballots are shown to the candidates, so this may help, in a small way, to drive the message home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81053388990015738122007-09-20T17:43:00.000+01:002007-09-20T17:43:00.000+01:00VerityMy sincere apolgies. What was meant to be ho...Verity<BR/>My sincere apolgies. What was meant to be honest frustration came out a little stronger than I had intended.<BR/>All grovelling aside I still believe the medias attitude does play an important role in how the Tories are perceived.<BR/>Take todays Times headline "Bank Chief Under Fire Over Crisis 'flip-flop'".<BR/>Now I know one of my problems may be paranoia but isnt that a back handed swipe at Cameron.<BR/>Of course it could be that who ever is being lined up to be the new leader is approved of by the press in which case things may be different.<BR/>Any thoughts?boanergeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292685430478760574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-37548965139181231742007-09-20T16:20:00.000+01:002007-09-20T16:20:00.000+01:00You are quite correct Verity and I do believe that...You are quite correct Verity and I do believe that even supporters on the periphery of his entourage can sense the prevailing and uncomfortable atmosphere that surrounds the dear leader. There are so many people making excuses for him and elaborating with unconvincing statements of support, in the pure hope that a miracle might happen and he is transformed into a knight in shining armour. It's not going to happen of course and the embarrassing fawning continues, albeit less enthusiastically of late, with the death throes getting ever weaker, with the damage to the party suffering with every passing day.Vienna Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03957194230173008975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4269774822277224792007-09-20T13:48:00.000+01:002007-09-20T13:48:00.000+01:00Vienna Woods - Well said! But I think another rea...Vienna Woods - Well said! But I think another reason David Cameron looks stiff and uncomfortable is, he has never mixed around with ordinary people and isn't sure of how to behave. OE charm only works for a short time - a couple of months - then you have to get down to representing the people, of Cameron is slightly afraid. He doesn't seem to be able to meet people on equal terms. He does the charming OE bit and carefully distances himself. He doesn't engage because he doesn't understand the average person's background or what they are thinking.<BR/><BR/>For example, a small rise in interst rates might be a minor irritationn to him, but there are huge tranches of the population for whom this news is so worrying it occupies all their waking thoughts.<BR/><BR/>Look at all his asinine little publicity stunts that were so embarrassing one had to look away. He and his little coterie haven't the faintest idea of how voters think or what drives them. He doesn't get it and he's uncomfortable.<BR/><BR/>That standing ovation for the vile Blair demonstrated beyond the smallest inkling of doubt one may have had, that Cameron is operating in a different universe. He wants to be a good chap. Sporting. Not a strong, effective leader, but one of the chaps; bloody sporting in defeat.<BR/><BR/>I agree that,given the chaos of the government and the unpleasant character of the prime minister and his gross personal habits, David Davis could walk away with the next election. Ann Widdecomb would have a harder fight on her hands, but I think she could prevail, as well. Voters sense strength and conviction. They haven't detected any in David Cameron; not even after two years of publicity stunts and totally ineffectual policy statements that he and his little clique put together.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-9954482924713352432007-09-20T10:45:00.000+01:002007-09-20T10:45:00.000+01:00Annon 09.58,Bedbugs are caused by dirty bedding an...Annon 09.58,<BR/><BR/>Bedbugs are caused by dirty bedding and a lack of regular de infestation of matresses Etc! This has got NOTHING to do with outside temperatures as even you must realise! Bedbugs feed off human skin and sweat that is shed during the night as people sleep and the cause is not some fake man made global warming rubbish, it is SIMPLE HYGENE!<BR/>Let me put this as simply as I can for you, bedbugs thrive INDOORS regardless of outside temperatures in dirty bedding that is not cleaned thoroughly AND regularly! Bedbugs are as common in the Artic as they are in the sahara and to say otherwise is ignorant rubbish! An infested matress can be very cold or very warm and still the bedbugs/eggs will survive for months if the mattress is not cleaned and disinfected, all they do is hybernate untill a human comes along to sleep and then they go to work!<BR/>The BBC eco nutters must be very desperate to come up with the "bedbugs are proof of MMGW" piffle!<BR/>But dear Annon dont take my word for it go and read about bedbugs on the internet or at the library and stop listening to the ignorant trash being issued by the greenie nutjobs!<BR/>Destroy western industrial society to save us from BEDBUGS? Are they INSANE? or just out for any old lie to bring about their perverted vision of a solar powered mud hut paradise! Now I have heard it all from the eco cretins!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-11355728034200958062007-09-20T09:58:00.000+01:002007-09-20T09:58:00.000+01:00English Democrat said ... "the outside temperature...English Democrat said ... "the outside temperature does not affect what goes on indoors."<BR/><BR/>It most certainly does. Unless you have air conditioning, if the outside temperature in summer is higher then the indoor temperature will also be higher and this will encourage the development of certain insects indoors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47330252970756378192007-09-20T09:07:00.000+01:002007-09-20T09:07:00.000+01:00Wrinkled Weasel, your appraisal of Cameron & Co is...Wrinkled Weasel, your appraisal of Cameron & Co is spot on. Whilst he may be a perfectly nice person, he is, at the same time, born of privilege with absolutely no experience of anything during his cosseted existence. His appearance and expression (which I know he cannot help!) is stiff, unrelaxed and as a consequence does not connect with the electorate and neither does his equally vacuous lieutenants. Except for David Davis, I can’t think of a single Conservative cabinet member who gives the impression of relaxed authority. We need someone experienced that can handle Brown and his company of twisters, not a character from a Whitehall Theatre spoof!Vienna Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03957194230173008975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75476794300439865352007-09-20T08:56:00.000+01:002007-09-20T08:56:00.000+01:00When people are calling John Redwood the common se...When people are calling John Redwood the common sense option its clear how little there is of it around...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-6204219706156632192007-09-20T07:43:00.000+01:002007-09-20T07:43:00.000+01:00This fake MMGW evidence is getting more silly by t...This fake MMGW evidence is getting more silly by the day! This from the BBC this AM, Global warming is now proved because of the increase in, wait for it.. BEDBUGS! Yes you heard right! apparantly some idiot on the BBC says that the increase in bedbugs is because of MMGW! Warmer winters and wetter summers Etc Etc! Er, the thing is that bedbugs live INDOORS and inside matresses Etc, so the outside temperature does not affect what goes on indoors! The phrase cluthing at straws comes to mind BUT why would the BBC give airtime to such misleading and stupid lies?<BR/>Bedbugs thrive because bedding is not being cleaned often enough NOT because of man made global warming for Gods sake!<BR/>Dave Cameron is bleeding votes because of his faith in the MMGW scam and I say faith because the evidence is overwhelming now that climate change is natural! The centre left would rather stick pins in their eyes than vote Tory! so why does Cameron persist in trying to appeal to these voters? His sacred "focus groups" keep telling him that voters care about the enviroment and he must adjust Tory policy to appeal to this group BUT they are WRONG WRONG WRONG! What people want is a true blue and I mean TRUE BLUE party that sticks to its core values and does not try to jump on any trendy bandwaggon that comes along! You have to ask yourself WHY does Cameron keep wanting to introduce more and more "green taxes"? is it for the extra revenue? Is it to appease the leftist BBC?<BR/>The voter wants a Tory party to LOWER TAXES! BE PRO INDUSTRY! BE STRONG ON DEFENCE! TOUGH ON CRIME! TOUGH ON FAKE ASYLUM/ECONOMIC MIGRANTS! STRONG DEFENDER OF THE NATIVE POPULATION AND ITS WAY OF LIFE! STOP THE EU SUBJUGATION OF THE UK!<BR/>PUT BRITISH CULTURE FIRST AND STOP THE ISLAMIC COLONISATION OF THE UK!<BR/>But most importantly the very first thing a Tory government must do is start a public enquiry on political sleaze and criminal behaviour that is now rampant in Westminster! Only a FULL "truth & reconciliation" enquiry will restore trust in the political process! Fraud and patronage and outright theft of public money is so rife now that only a thorough cleansing of the body politic will do! Even IF it means losing the next election the Tories MUST stick to its core values and wait for the voters to come to them NOT the other way round! Only then will people start to trust the Tories again!<BR/><BR/>PS, Mr Cameron STOP chasing votes like some 2nd hand car shark! You are NOT selling some crap soap powder here! People can see through that rubbish and they do not like it AND they will not vote for it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75546356456822620802007-09-20T06:44:00.000+01:002007-09-20T06:44:00.000+01:00Well said, Verity! I agree fully.However I read th...Well said, Verity! I agree fully.<BR/><BR/>However I read that 82% of the "Heir to Blair's Conservatives" support Dave, so they apparently prefer to be decimated before they see sense.Jorgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086436477824088030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-72142846473537030992007-09-20T02:14:00.000+01:002007-09-20T02:14:00.000+01:00GreerThe sooner Iain returns and gives you the elb...Greer<BR/><BR/>The sooner Iain returns and gives you the elbow, the better.<BR/>Your posts could be, and probably are, lifted from ConHome, the retirement home for 'angry old men'.<BR/>You also (predictably) gave the kiss of life to the ghastly Verity. You're her kind of guy.<BR/>Get lost greer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-12437864982813139502007-09-20T01:31:00.000+01:002007-09-20T01:31:00.000+01:00Boanerges says "At the risk of repeating myself .....Boanerges says "At the risk of repeating myself ...". It's OK, Bo. No one's heard of you so we don't know what you opined in the past.<BR/><BR/>Your post was hostile and full of malice and you are a person with problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30373145268312972592007-09-19T22:13:00.000+01:002007-09-19T22:13:00.000+01:00Bang on the Button, Boycie !!!Bang on the Button, Boycie !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-18193465045316007922007-09-19T21:54:00.000+01:002007-09-19T21:54:00.000+01:00Ming more popular than Cameron! Pull the other one...Ming more popular than Cameron! Pull the other one Guardianistas, did ICM only interview Guardian readers?<BR/><BR/>The Guardian produces a very timely poll to give Gordon a big boost before the Labour conference and to give the BBC even more excuse to tell everyone how gorgeous Mcavity is, and of course puts Cameron even more on the backfoot so the BBC can report on idiots from the fringe meetings who want Grammar Schools and to say how unpopular he is.<BR/><BR/>This is another example of the Guardian-Labour-BBC axis at work. They are creating good news for Labour and bad news for the Conservatives, at an important time.Geezerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03642135656070350953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22342557646909764762007-09-19T21:38:00.000+01:002007-09-19T21:38:00.000+01:00At the risk of repeating myself, electing a new le...At the risk of repeating myself, electing a new leader is not going to give the Tories any better press coverage than they already dont receive. Many posters complain about the treatment the Tories get in the media then use what they see and hear in the media to crucify them. For christs sake try to be consistent.boanergeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292685430478760574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-60090724692469528222007-09-19T20:53:00.000+01:002007-09-19T20:53:00.000+01:00Tone Made Me Do It - "Is Cameroon and his cache to...Tone Made Me Do It - "Is Cameroon and his cache too thick to understand it?"<BR/><BR/>Yes. He just doesn't understand.<BR/><BR/>My dislike for Cameron hardened into implaccable hatred when he, as the Leader of HM Opposition, urged Conservative Members of Parliament to give a standing ovation to the man to had taken an axe to our ancient Constitution and our Bill of Rights, had destroyed our ancient British freedom of speech and had created speech crimes and thought crimes; and destroyed an education system that was once among the world's best; and had sluiced millions of individuals who adhere to a primitive, alien religion into the country, liked about the figures and made it a crime for anyone to complain and whose lifestyle was utterly corrupt. <BR/><BR/>And the Leader of HM Opposition was giving him a standing ovation - being a jolly good sport, you know.<BR/><BR/>This was sheer insanity and should have sounded the final warning bell to the establishment on the subject of Cameron. He should have been gone the next day.<BR/><BR/>Cameron doesn't get it. He is not capable of getting it. Dump him now. Better let the socialists crow now than when they win the next election. David Davis or Ann Widdecomb could each attract a huge, loyal, enthusiastic following.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8088263788193731532007-09-19T20:30:00.000+01:002007-09-19T20:30:00.000+01:00Have you considered the following possibility: tha...Have you considered the following possibility: that Cameron is broadly on the right track, while the remainder of the Conservative party is hurtling down an ideological dead end? Just a thought.Laurence Boycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17838530535994771528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-16148961160469823702007-09-19T19:23:00.000+01:002007-09-19T19:23:00.000+01:00I wish you could come back and set the agenda Iain...I wish you could come back and set the agenda Iain.<BR/>The Bank Run was Gordon Brown's fault.<BR/>This is an article in the NuLabour and indeed Old Labour supporting FT.<BR/><BR/>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5812ed6c-66d8-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac.html<BR/><BR/>it starts by blaming King but ends up by blaming Gordon.<BR/><BR/>This is an open goal for the Tories.<BR/><BR/>Is Cameroon and his cache too thick to understand it?The Military Wing Of The BBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04811519612440901811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80014376911312689592007-09-19T18:40:00.001+01:002007-09-19T18:40:00.001+01:00In 2 years time, the cry will be "why is food so e...In 2 years time, the cry will be "why is food so expensive?" and "why are we not growing more?".<BR/><BR/>(For anyone who studies commodities, wheat and grain is and will be the next boom. Why? Biofuel and India and China is the answer)..<BR/>And if the Conservatives bothered to do any real research .. bu they don't .. they are lazily incompetent recycling others' ideas...Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-8796890624844422802007-09-19T18:40:00.000+01:002007-09-19T18:40:00.000+01:00Sorry, you Tories, but it's gone too far. Disaster...Sorry, you Tories, but it's gone too far. Disaster Dave has said and done too many silly things and given too many hostages to fortune. Leaders can win when they're disliked by their own supporters so long as they're respected by them, Blair being a perfect example of this. You have only to read the comments on websites like this ,though, to realize not only the dislike for Dave but the outright contempt from people who should be his rock support. Having elected a young, callow, inexperienced leader in Hague with predictably disastrous results the Tories then repeat their mistake in spades with Cameron. Advancing youth over wisdom - what a silly party the modern Tory Party is.tgf ukiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11655107957680641597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-42747262103961226892007-09-19T18:18:00.000+01:002007-09-19T18:18:00.000+01:00"As I’ve said already, I have yet to make up my mi..."As I’ve said already, I have yet to make up my mind about Cameron (which after two years in the job is incredible), but equally I haven’t turned against him. I’m just waiting to be convinced, and the base is the same."<BR/><BR/>You know why you cannot say yes to Cameron. He is not convincing and you know that this will not change. He doesn't inspire and he looks to tips from his team rather than lead from the front with conviction that only the people have to know what they want and who believe in themselves.<BR/><BR/>You know, sometimes you just bet on the wrong horse... I used to be a huge fan of Gabriele Pauli, a Bavarian CSU politician, but today she committed political suicide -- she voiced the idea that marriage should be divorced automatically after 7 years.<BR/><BR/>After voicing this, no matter what else she says, no-one will take her serious, she branded herself a moonbat and there has to come a point at which one has to show flag. Almost all party members are baying for her to resign her regional leadership because she isn't a conservative as we can see now. And there is also the unspoken question of: how did she *ever* manage to deceive us all like that???<BR/><BR/>Cameron is the same in his ambivalence to conservative values, albeit in a less dramatic and colourful way, which perhaps is even more tragic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-47190223261068543562007-09-19T18:12:00.000+01:002007-09-19T18:12:00.000+01:00WW - Agree. Cameron is vacuous. He is also self-...WW - Agree. Cameron is vacuous. He is also self-regarding. Not in a preening sense, but he simply doesn't understand that his take on life has little connection to that of most of us. <BR/><BR/>He seems to genuinely believe that people will admire him for having a wind turbine on his roof, and indeed, champagne socialists will do so. They don't vote Tory. He honestly thought that going to Norway and posing in a parka with a couple of Huskies on an ice floe would provide a moment of enlightenment for people. (Well, it did for me, but not the enlightenment he had in mind.) His silly statements on hoodies - had he ever met one, by the way,in order to gift us with his diagnosis of their problems? - and grafitti (posing against a clean wall holding an obviously newly unwrapped paint brush up) turned people off in the tens of thousands.<BR/><BR/>They wanted to hear about calling a halt to immigration and swilling illegals out; the communist style indoctrination in the schools, which teach nothing else; the parlous state of the NHS that is so bad people needing treatment actually put off going into hospital for fear of MRSA. All those things and an oft-rehearsed thousand more. <BR/><BR/>He goes to Norway. He is going to save the planet by telling Tesco's and other supermarkets that they must charge customers for use of their legally owned property; he is going to put extra tax on luxury cars - perhaps thinking that "soak the rich" worked for Labour once ... and he is going to charge extra taxes for people flying off on weekend breaks. Because his inane little brain doesn't understand that the "man made global warming" meme is a giant scam by the multi-squillionaire who brought us the hanging chads in Florida.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34602725602819132642007-09-19T18:07:00.000+01:002007-09-19T18:07:00.000+01:00Dave must awaken at night and scream `Grammer scho...Dave must awaken at night and scream `Grammer schools, Grammer schools` (mistake made). <BR/><BR/>They are doing it to you again. <BR/><BR/>TAX CUTS, NHS, LAW AND ORDER.<BR/><BR/>It does not matter which subject he chooses to speak on the tory party will stiff him before brown has got out of bed.<BR/><BR/>Get some spine please before the labour party does us all in. I have a pension, some savings and a young family.<BR/><BR/>I quite rightly look for leadership and party unity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-79764417520164605042007-09-19T17:22:00.000+01:002007-09-19T17:22:00.000+01:00I have a copy of an article I wrote in 1993 which ...I have a copy of an article I wrote in 1993 which should give the green tories something to think about.<BR/><BR/>Looking back, I can barely believe it. <BR/><BR/>'About 250 companies worldwide are bidding for the £500m contract to set up tolls on Britain's motorways by 1998, Transport Secretary John MacGregor revealed last week.'<BR/><BR/>MacGregor wanted a variable rate, continental style system.<BR/><BR/>Yes. Him again. Remember, the Tories were tipped out fine style in 1997. The standard story is 'time for change and sleaze'.<BR/><BR/>However, we've all forgotton the green panic of the early 1990s. And the Tories were in the forefront of it. Much good it did them.<BR/><BR/>I also reported on a proposed 'tag and beacon' charging system for Cambridge at the same time. Actually went to the town and interviewed the minister, Robert Key (?).<BR/><BR/>I have absolutely no doubt that the Labour rise in the polls is post 'parking charges at the supermarkets'. That affects most people. Nothern Rock affected very few - even if the underlying cause is very worring.<BR/><BR/>The green shift has to be canned asap. I know that the Cameroons think they have Identified the next big thing, but they haven't. Life if tight for most people and recycling and a more economical car is all you'll get from them.<BR/><BR/>It's worth remembering that Labour tolling schemes have been devolved out, so Livingstone gets the blame in London and Greater Manchester councils will get the blame in the north. Labour remains untainted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-58768726198422823852007-09-19T17:16:00.000+01:002007-09-19T17:16:00.000+01:00The CP needs to lose most of its safe seats.. and ...The CP needs to lose most of its safe seats.. and most of its Shadow Cabinet it would appear before they will actually be effective.<BR/><BR/>Ineffective , impractical and self satisfied .. how do you solve that? <BR/><BR/>If it was a company you's sack them.<BR/><BR/>I can't sack them but I have a choice as a voter... and I certainly will not vote for wa bunch of tos... sorry losers ..who make the Labour Party look competent.<BR/><BR/>If the CP came to power, they are so inefficient, they would make DEFRA's handling of F&M look a success...Madasafishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06109237198481955714noreply@blogger.com