An economic catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes, with the coronavirus cure proving more harmful than the sickness. Conservatives for Liberty is calling for the government to end the lockdown. Now. All the coronavirus legislation criminalising ordinary behaviour must be repealed. Schools must re-open and operate as normal. Businesses must not face trading restrictions any […]
March 2020 seems like such a dangerously naive time. If only we knew then what we know now, might we have behaved differently? It seems abundantly clear that we would. We all stockpiled food largely without realising we were doing it. Pointlessly. We argued about closing schools in a debate that we now know to […]
“We’re going where!?”, my mum exclaimed. “You must be joking!”, my friend said, looking nervous. It was November, and we were a couple of weeks into the General Election campaign. I’d just been appointed as the Conservative candidate for Wentworth and Dearne (part of the Rotherham council area) and was explaining my canvassing plans to […]
When the Exit Poll came through last Thursday night I was thrilled. Not because the Tories had won, however; because Labour had lost. Badly. Let me explain… I had built up a resentment after suffering several weeks of scathing social-media posts from socialists, clearly biased media reporting, and outright lies spewed from disciples who worship […]
This is not a new thing. For decades elites have held the ‘little people’ in contempt, considering them too stupid to understand, and certainly too stupid to decide. We saw it with Brexit, where a great many people said it was ‘too complex an issue’ to be decided by referendum, and then deriding us Brexiteers […]
Indeed, it is well-past time. Theresa May needs to resign, and she needs to do it soon. If she won’t resign, then the Cabinet and the 1922 Committee need to sort it out. That’s my conclusion after the UK and EU agreed to extend the Article 50 deadline for withdrawal from the EU to 31st […]
A lot of activists – and inactive members – are walking away from the Conservative Party. Even more are keeping their memberships in hand for a future leadership election, but refusing to get out there and campaign in the local elections. Not me. Every weekend, and sometimes a mid-week session or two as well, I’m […]
‘Our best hope of getting any Brexit at all is to pass the Withdrawal Agreement.’ That’s what we’re being told. That’s what Conservative Brexiteer rebels are being beaten about the head with. On the same theme, immediately after today’s failed (yet again) vote on the PM’s Brexit deal, official Conservative Party social media went into […]
When she became Prime Minister in 2016, May made a series of pledges about the kind of Brexit she wanted. In subsequent speeches she fleshed out that vision. The Conservative Party was broadly united. Sure, Remainers would have preferred to remain, and Brexiteers would have preferred a more buccaneering Brexit, but this was a compromise […]
The greatest mandate ever given by the British people ordered the Government to take back control of our borders, laws and finances. This, we were assured, was what we would get. However the Withdrawal Agreement presented by Theresa May falls far short of what were promised. Instead of control, we’re being presented with an agreement […]
Yesterday’s march for a so-called ‘People’s Vote’ was group therapy for the lost souls of our University towns with no political or cultural significance whatsoever. The evidence of this is in the People’s Vote ‘brand’ genesis. Continuity Remain is perceived by most people as an extreme, and highly irrational, position – even by lots of […]
National pride isn’t very fashionable anymore. People who drape themselves in the Union Flag, sing the national anthem and talk about how GREAT Britain is are sneered at as at best being deluded, harking back to a long-gone past, and at worst being some kind of fascist – as though patriotism is inevitably Nazism. We’re […]
