The new Speaker and the Poles: Another bad week for the Tories

First published June 23 2009

Its been on the cards for a bit, but the Tories, and David Cameron, are going to lead a new right-wing fringe group known as the European Conservatives and Reformists, the Guardian reports.

The Tories have taken themselves out of the centre-right EPP on a anti-federalist ticket, while Cameron has told other conservatives not to listen to Ken Clarke – known for his Europhilia –  who told BBC1’s The Politics Show that: “If the Irish referendum endorses the treaty and ratification comes into effect, then our settled policy is quite clear that the treaty will not be reopened.” (continue)

A Slur on Jack Jones

First posted on April 23 2009

I just read the Telegraph‘s Jack Jones obituary. Positive?

The writer of the piece tries to blame Jones’ fight against Harold Wilson’s legal sanctions on striking workers for Labour’s election defeat in 1970 (continue)

The New Radical Establishment

First posted January 14 2009

In a statement that buttresses so-called Tory “modernisation,” David Cameron recently called for the ‘day of reckoning’ against bankers who triggered the economic crisis, saying that the nation’s modest earners – “nurses and cleaners and [sic] teachers” – should not have to fund the “multi-billion pound taxpayer bail-out of the banks” adding “[t]here cannot be one law for the rich and another for everyone else.” (continue)