DMC1971
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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why resignation may be... · 1 reply · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why resignation may be... · 3 replies · +1 points
our vote is nowhere near the level of getting a majority at the moment and is relying for a win on no tactical voting by the remain voters, in addition if we don't deliver brexit we run the risk of our vote collapsing
I'm yet to convinced by the game we're playing and that things wouldn't have been a lot better for us had we not tried to be overly clever
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why resignation may be... · 5 replies · +1 points
so frustrating we're in this position when tactical game playing has caused a totally self inflicted problem that never needed to have happened
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The abuse scandal reve... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson: why a Second ... · 4 replies · +1 points
Do we take it as it’ll mean we’ll leave the EU with the referendum as the price for that
Or refuse that with the Benn act meaning we have to ask for an extension and risk that brexit may not happen at all
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Richard Bingley: Five ... · 1 reply · +1 points
what having large tuition fees without restriction has done in effect is incentivised university's to recruit ever larger number of students to courses where there is no prospect of work afterwards knowing the national debt will cover the cost
personally I'd either abolish them completely or hugely reduce them but limit the capacity of universities to offer courses under these criteria - I mean how many graduates per year do we need in subject X or Y?
above that number the person can still study them but they pay for it privately and nothing to do with tuition fees
the current system of high tuition fees and with interest is failing and creating excessive national debt and we as conservatives should be sorting that sort of thing out rather than introducing and promoting it
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: The three... · 0 replies · +1 points
the giving up effectively of seats in the south west, london and scotland in return for a greater return of MPs from the labour seats in the north, whilst sounding superficially attractive has great risks
from the polling I've seen in a lot of these labour leave seats, firstly even if the 'seat' voted leave the majority of the MPs votes were from remain voters, and secondly the polling of the labour leave voters suggests that even with their views on brexit our party remains a 'toxic brand' and they won't vote for us regardless
the risk being that we try a more overt type of the 2017 strategy and it goes worse rather than better than it did then and we lose more in the SW/London/Scotland than we gain in the north - it sounds a great strategy on paper but I've a bad feeling it could go very very wrong
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Chloe Westley: Public ... · 1 reply · +1 points
whilst its clearly annoying to some to have national pay settlements lets not close our eyes and pretend we're not in a market here and market forces are operating against us - aiming to cut public sector pay further, there's already been a fair cut compared to inflation over the last decade already, is naive in the current market and represents a lack of research into the current state of the market
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Time is running out fo... · 5 replies · +1 points
I'm afraid I don't trust all these post saying we'd win easily - whatever we might think of them they campaign very well and in a prolonged general election they might well be effective again, although I doubt Boris could be as bad as May to be fair
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mark Harper: Most peop... · 2 replies · +1 points
unless we actually do something to reduce the net immigration figures, which frankly are not much different to those during Blairs time, then I'd suggest we stay quiet on this issue