DMC1971

DMC1971

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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why resignation may be... · 1 reply · +1 points

ironically had we just had the normal recess period for the party conferences, during which parliament could technically have been recalled if required, it probably wouldn't have been and the Benn act wouldn't have been needed or indeed passed, thats what makes me so annoyed about how we've handled this - we've created most of our own problems and we really didn't need to

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why resignation may be... · 3 replies · +1 points

had we forgot about the cummings plan, proroguing etc and delivered a brexit deal and got it through the commons the brexit party vote would dissipate as the UKIP one did and we'd still be ahead, but without all this trouble

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

why oh why did we let Cummings talk us into the prorogue plan - without that the Benn act wouldn't exist - the rebels would've happily waited until the EU summit knowing they still had time, we'd still have a majority and we may well have got a deal

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

Cheryl I have a business associate from Nigeria who’s looking to invest millions - I was going to work with him myself but given your post I think he’d love to work with you - if you just let us know I’ll put you in contact with him, what could go wrong

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson: why a Second ... · 4 replies · +1 points

I do think whether in parliament the situation may occur when Boris comes back with a deal, but hasn’t got the votes with us and the DUP to pass it, but enough opposition MPs offer to pass it with a ‘confirmatory vote’ attached to that passing

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

the majority of tuition fees are never repaid - they are national debt in all but name, hence getting rid of them wouldn't actually make a huge difference

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

irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the '21 decision', I do have major worries about the labour north strategy

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

there is, and is likely to be, a major shortage in staffing in healthcare for years/decades ahead - there is already a big pay differential between what we pay and what the private sector and the rest of the english speaking world pay - we constantly suffer from losing staff to the private sector and abroad - the pension used to be an anchor keeping people in the public sector but thats pretty much gone now

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

before 2017 he'd lost a confidence vote of his own MPs - our internal polling was telling us we'd win a huge majority - sound familiar?

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

exactly - promises are fine in opposition but when you've been in charge for nearly a decade its your record you're defending not promises for the future

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