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So says Nick Fletcher (wiki) a UKian Conservative politician. At least until the response forced a desperate back-peddling where he contradicted his earlier assertions and said he "in no way linked Dr Who [sic] being a female to crime being committed by men". Fletcher was speaking at a debate...

Those charged with rape are normally identified. Not something I necessarily agree with although I might. It is complicated. Anyway it seems this time the name is not being shared. Apparently the Tories have known about this since Feb. Hopefully they have spent the last 5 months trying to get...

This really couldn't have happened to anyone else.... He failed to become the chair! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/chris-grayling-fails-to-become-intelligence-and-security-chair "....Conservative colleague Julian Lewis secures votes of opposition MPs in humiliation for PM’s...

Conor Burns has resigned as trade minister after the standards watchdog said he should be receive a seven-day suspension from the Commons for attempting to intimidate a member of the public...

The UK government is proposing to use government money to bail out a failing regional airline Flybe. They're also proposing to review air duty - which if they get rid of it would be a clear reversal of ecological policy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51117885 Flybe's competitors aren't...

Conservative Party cabinet minister Michael Gove claims he is truly sorry he took cocaine twenty years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48564722 How degenerate is that? Here we have highly educated individuals whom we presume are au fait with current affairs, so ought to know...

Damian Green is a senior Conservative MP and as First Secretary of State is Theresa May's second in command. In 2008 his office was raided and his PCs inspected as part of a police investigation into government leaks. It is alleged that thousands of legal porn images were found on the computer...

So, 22,000 people tracked the aeroplane bringing UK Cabinet Minister Priti Patel back from Africa to face Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street. OJ Bronco-style tv news helicopters are tracking her black limo on its way from Heathrow to Central London. The real question is, if PM...

Should Theresa May suspend an MP for employing this durable colloquialism? How will ISF treat this thread? I hope it is OK here, I have always been fascinated by the censorship of Mark Twain. In New Zealand pakeha means white grub I believe. It is always important to examine our own ways of...

I'm amazed there isn't a thread on this already. The most severe reshuffle for quite some time surely deserves some comment. I am particularly disappointed to lose William Hague from the Foreign Office. I think he has been a great Foreign Secretary, in a long line of really high calibre Foreign...

Climate "skeptic" appointed to UK energy and climate change select committee Are the tories going down the anti-science road? First there was a pro homeopath appointed as health minister and now Peter Lilley, a climate denier oil company director appointed to the energy committee...

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/militant-secularisation-christianity-lady-warsi Forgetting the left-brain hip check caused by the highest profile Muslim in British politics pushing Christianity to the forefront of government, can anyone (as she hasn't herself) provide evidence of...

Michael Gove - trying to remove half of all schools from being run by the state, having wet dreams about re creating the prep school environment of his and hus Tory chums' childhood for the benefit of a few at the expense of creating ever greater educational inequality..... Andrew Lansely -...

Not my words, but the words of a senior Tory MP: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/nov/13/tory-mp-cameron-ousted-spring Maybe this doesn't really deserve its own thread, but I wanted to start it just for the thread title :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11793486 Have we stepped in a machine back to the 30's?

Apparently so [1] thinks Ivor Tiefenbrun (he seems to have now distanced himself now from those specific remarks), entrepreneur behind the Linn hi-fi company, and prospective (though not any more) Conservative candidate for next years Holyrood elections. Now, why would Scots (or other Britons)...

So it begins... Child benefit to be axed for higher earners: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11464300

It really has started, we have had all the slogans about "big society" , personal choices, less government in our daily lives, personal responsibility but what they actually mean is "You have the choices we approve." The moralising and marginalisation of those they disapprove of has begun...

Well it's taken them 62 years, but it looks like the Conservative party are finally about to demolish the NHS in all but name, by accelerating the New Labour plans to allow private companies to provide more and more healthcare services. Their inspiration for this has come from looking at the US...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10364566.stm How long before we get back to having to plan your sickness a month in advance to get an appointment with your GP? (And that is not an exaggeration, my mother's GP's practice during the 90s ran with a minimum of a month wait for appointments)...

The election thread seems to have run into the sand, and we have a new government this morning. Does anyone want to discuss the coalition deal and the prospects for government? Rolfe.

What if the unthinkable happened and Dave SarumanCameron failed to become PM; would he join IDS and William Vague as another nearly man? Or would the Conservatives see him as the wronged party and back him to the hilt?

Cameron, open neck shirt at the ready, ventures into a Gay Times interview in the aim of dispelling the air of Clause 28 that hangs around the Tories. The following is the result, which begins with a discussion on a EU vote in favour of gay rights. I understand some Tory MEP's voted against it...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7043911.ece Any guesses?

This guy was the Tory MEP who whored around for every Fox host decrying the evils of socialized medicine. Now he is starting a British Tea Party :rolleyes: . Linky. Please, emigrate already.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jkX3eIqmfHR3ARoUuIx3tBdnuQgA The Tory lead has shrunk (In this poll at least) to just 6 points, with just ten weeks left before the likely general election. Is a hung parliament going to happen for the first time in 40 years? If so, with whom?

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David Cameron has apparently called for the Conservative party to get rid of nonsensical Health & Safety laws. Maybe he should have consulted this useful website rather than just listening to the outraged tabloids? :) http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/index.htm and...

Documentary video: Dispatches: Inside Britain's Israel Lobby POtk6G7q4Bw Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtk6G7q4Bw&feature=PlayList&p=GG4nNxozwLI This was on TV earlier this week. Quite amazing information really, good journalism...