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10 years ago @ Conservative Home - Lewis Baston: The Cons... · 0 replies · +1 points

Which is why George Osborne was so wrong to co-opt his Party Leader into a campaign against an electoral system (AV) which would have almost certainly delivered a Conservative majority next May.
The chancellor is not the great strategist many Conservatives think he is: recommending Coulson was a disaster as may prove to be the case with his preferment of Lynton Crosby who seems determined to keep the party on the wrong side of mainstream opinion over the NHS, public transport and employment rights.

11 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - Simon Richards: No tic... · 0 replies · 0 points

Unless she has rejoined the Conservative party, one of the speakers addressing the "poor bloody infantry", Councillor Donna Edmunds is now a member of UKIP to which she recently defected on Lewes District Council.
Sounds like a gruesome affair if a woman who told a constituent to "pay your taxes to die of cancer if that's what you want" in an exchange over the NHS is the best you can assemble, along with the unprepossessing Mark Littlewood who accused LibDem delegates who had paid to attend a fringe event at their conference of being freeloaders.
Cheers and have fun!

12 years ago @ Bloggers4UKIP - Marta finally jumps sh... · 0 replies · 0 points

If UKIP has any sense the party line will be to make room for Conservative voters who are simply Eurosceptic. To alienate Eastleigh voters as they are coming up fast on the outside rail is crazy, as you imply.

Luckily for Nigel Farage, he has a female candidate to apologise for "the woman" comment on the doorstep.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - Boundary reform defeat... · 0 replies · 0 points

'itdoesntaddup' to make the first assumption based on what I've said....and three way marginals would be greatly improved by the absence of tactical voting. Goodnight.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - Boundary reform defeat... · 2 replies · 0 points

Interesting, but I wrote "40% of the constituency vote", which means 40% of those who actually voted rather than each constituency's electorate.
When it comes to vote share the LibDems averaged 120,000 votes for every MP elected in 2010, the Conservatives 35,000 and Labour 33,000.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - Boundary reform defeat... · 4 replies · +4 points

AV would have deprived Labour of even more seats in the elections won by Thatcher and, crucially, would have given the Conservatives more seats in the closer elections of 1992 (Major) and 2010.
So yes, I'm for real; but I don't like the present electoral system under which an MP can win with less than a 40% share of the constituency vote.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - Boundary reform defeat... · 6 replies · -2 points

I'm afraid this was bound to happen after the onslaught inflicted by Conservatives during the referendum on AV which was a much fairer voting system than the one we're still left with at Westminster.

12 years ago @ Video - George Osborne: "... · 0 replies · +1 points

Excellent suggestions.

12 years ago @ The Tory Diary - Why George Osborne can... · 1 reply · +3 points

Are people who oppose an extra council tax band or two aware of the ludicrous ratio of cost band to house price value in some of the wealthiest areas in this country? As the measure hasn't been reviewed since its hasty introduction over twenty years ago there are now anomalies which can only be called indefensible, even by free market libertarians like Daniel Hannan. Surely the owners of an average priced home in Mayfair, valued at around £2 million (according to current data), can afford an increase to the top band H which currently stands at £1,369.04.

12 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - Lord Ashcroft: Conserv... · 1 reply · +3 points

It's Grant Shapps who isn't learning if he approves as crude a bromide as this. Perhaps he could persuade M&C Saatchi to use one of Michael Green's online guides.

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