Bloggers for Cameron Comments

by: Administrator

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:36:35 +0000

I’m quite sure he will!

I don’t remember being this excited about our prospects since I met Portillo in 2001… And this time the right man won!

by: J

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:53:05 +0000

He did it (like they’re was any doubt).

I’m quite anxious to see how he does on PM’s questions tommorow. I hope he runs Blair into the ground.

by: Yusuf Smith

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:56:37 +0000

Well, I didn’t intend to give the impression that tabloids and the Spectator are the same issue. The Spectator’s coverage of both the riots and the 7th July bombings was inaccurate, unbalanced and inflammatory. It was unbalanced because no Muslim appears to have been invited to give a perspective from within the community, giving the impression that the Muslim community is itself the problem. In this case, the fact that the youths involved in the riots (as pointed out by Theodore Dalrymple, in the Spectator, and by others) were irreligious delinquents and not jihadis and that similar pre-existing circumstances existed as did in Brixton before the riots (such as police harrassment) are common knowledge but either went above Liddle’s and Sookhdeo’s heads, or were conveniently ignored by them. I didn’t find them “honest” at all - the exact opposite, in fact.

by: Administrator

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:30:23 +0000

Cameron’s plan is different to National Service but is a good idea.

A large number of the teenage and other school-leaver unemployed have never done anything to benefit someone else. If we can create a society in which people realise that their effort can achieve something, then we will create a better society.

Now, to me, that sounds a lot more like social engineering than I am comfortable with. Isn’t is ironic that Cameron is more right wing than a Tory (me) who genuinely prefers Davis’ policies!

I wouldn’t defend the emotional and exciteable way tabloids write, but the basis of their content is often just and is the basis for support of Blair’s draconian anti-terrorism measures and the Tories’ sensible immigration policies. At the same time however, you seem to attack the Specatator on your blog which suggests that it is not the tone of the Tabloid’s writing so much as the content.

Mark Steyn and Rod Liddle’s articles, particularly are not Islamophobic so much as culturally honest representation of facts without reference to emotion.

by: Yusuf Smith

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:18:23 +0000

I’ve been looking round this evening on the Tory web and blogosphere, and I’m beginning to warm to Cameron and go cool on Davis (I’m not with the party, at least not yet). I was really disappointed to see a moan about foreigners in British jails on Davis’ “people” page on the conservatives.org website - it seems like the “treat everyone like tabloid-reading bigots” tactics which got the party trounced in May. And his site is nearly all slogans and does not have much in the way of policy at all. The thing that really worries me about Cameron is his “school leaver programme”. What is this exactly? It’s too late for me, but I don’t want my children put through conscription, which is on its way out in every country which can afford to dispense with it.

by: GavPOLITICS

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:46:52 +0000

Low tax - not low spend

“Do you remember the Yes Minister TV series, watching Sir Humphrey take every opportunity to inflate his already vast number of civil servants? For this Government, it isn’t so much a comedy as a training video. Last year alone, the Govern…

by: lucraft

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:53:10 +0100

Good to be here Gav.

by: lucraft

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:47:31 +0100

it’s great. I’m glad you like them. I tried to do a proper banner but couldn’t make it come out right. I’ll have another go tomorrow.

by: Administrator

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:42:41 +0100

Yes, I hope that’s okay! I’ve replaced the pixelly bad one too!

by: lucraft

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:39:38 +0100

and on this one too i see. well, glad I could help.