Tories

Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 hours ago
Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion speaks to members of the media as he comments on the Conservative platform during a scrum before leaving Vancouver, Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008. ...

Source: business.guardian.co.uk --- 39 minutes ago
Shadow chancellor says his party will be 'as constructive as possible' ...

Source: business.guardian.co.uk --- 13 hours ago
Tom Griffin: Last night's debate highlighted that Cameron's urgent task is working out a response to the current economic crisis ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 23 hours ago
The Conservatives' popularity in Ontario is sinking like a stone, perhaps about as fast as the provincial economy, and yet Stephen Harper is unrelentingly remote from the province that could make or break his majority. ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 23 hours ago
Refusal to engage in discussion about future of country's most populous province puzzles senior PC members ...

Source: news.cheapflights.co.uk --- 5 hours ago
Conservative Party officials have hit back over accusations by BA that their policy on Heathrow Airport is untenable, The Telegraph reports. The flag carrier's chief executive, Willie Walsh, said last week that a proposal by Tory leader David Cameron to... ...

Source: www.citynews.ca --- 5 hours ago
They have tape of the Grit boss apparently quoting another author verbatim in a United Nations speech about climate change. ...

Source: www.bnp.org.uk --- 18 hours ago
In the midst of one of the greatest financial crises to strike the world since the Great Depression, the Tories have announced that David Cameron would allow the minimum wage to “melt away” if he became PM — meaning that millions of first-time job entrants and young people would be exposed to the sort of [...] ...

Source: www.westcoaster.ca --- 7 hours ago
By Martin Ouellet The Canadian Press MONTREAL — Gilles Duceppe may have used some unkind words lately to describe Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, but the Bloc Quebecois leader appears ready to collaborate with a new minority Tory government. ...

Source: www.westcoaster.ca --- 7 hours ago
By Bruce Cheadle The Canadian Press LAVAL, Que. — A full month into a five-week election campaign that he himself called, Stephen Harper will finally release his Conservative party's full campaign platform Tuesday. ...

Source: blog.macleans.ca --- 29 minutes ago
The Conservative platform is mostly a damp squib, more or less by design. Or at any rate they’re trapped: if they were to put more in it at this late date, they open themselves to charges of panicking, making it up as they go along etc. — the very thing they’re trying to hang on [...] ...

Source: www.dominionpaper.ca --- 4 hours ago
Could Conservative fortunes have run out? The impending economic problems in the US have caused many Canadians to turn to other parties. While the Conservatives are still leading nationally, they are behind the 8-ball in Ontario for the first time in months. The Liberals are leading by nearly nine percent. In Quebec, the Conservatives have slipped to third, just two percent ahead of the NDP. The Bloc are leading. In BC, the Tories are in a dead heat with the NDP. ...

Source: www.kablenet.com --- 3 hours ago
An incoming Conservative government would replace the ContactPoint database of all children in England with a system covering only those seen as vulnerable ...

Source: www.opendemocracy.net --- 5 hours ago
Guy Aitchison (London, OK ): OK's Tom Griffin has a piece up on Comment is Free reflecting on last night's Guardian-Soundings sponsored debate which asked "Is the future Conservative?" If you do the electoral arithmetic the answer is almost certainly, Yes. But as last night's panel - ably chaired by Jonathan Freedland - recognised, if the party is to achieve any kind of ideological ascendancy it must develop a new political economy which transcends the disastrous neo-liberal thinking that lies behind the current crisis. Not easy when, as Tom notes, Cameron's entire "broken society" pitch is based on the premise that Thatcher fixed the "broken economy"! I sat through last night's debate with Tom and I think he's right when he says there wasn't much evidence of any new economic thinking from the largely Tory panel. There were a lot platitudes offered about the restoration of civil society and Jesse Norman made the quite remarkable claim that only the Right can provide answers to the current crisis, as they alone have "transcended the debate between the individual and the state" ("Third Way" anyone?). As Tom says, the most adventurous was Theologian Philip Blond, whose recent attack on the failings of the liberal state was published here on OK . I was surprised to find myself in agreement on some issues with the self-described "communitarian" Blond. One questioner in the audience summed up my reasons well when he joked that Sarah Pa ...

Source: overlawyered.com --- 14 hours ago
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said if the Conservatives return to power they will amend the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974, sections of which have applied to police work since 1997. The much-criticized results have included refusals to allow police officers to venture into potentially dangerous crime scenes and rescue situations. The [...] ...

Source: asithappens.tppr.info --- 1 hour ago
The Conservative Party is holding its Annual Conference in Birmingham but it has been struggling to get the level of coverage today that it would normally expect. The front pages have been forced to concentrate on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley and on the Paulson rescue plan in the US. The Tory High Command is fully aware that its apparently unassailable lead in the polls is much flakier than it would like. The danger is that the lead has peaked and that the scale of the economic crisis will have the electorate moving back to the devil they know in New Labour. There have also been justifiable criticisms of the Party that Cameron’s leadership was all ‘spin’ and no substance. Some of the harshest critics of David Cameron as a ‘bit of political fluff’ are coming from within Tory ranks. The communications in advance of the Annual Conference were designed to reverse this perception of ‘flakiness’ by offering electorally attractive proposals that should have gained much greater headline coverage under normal circumstances. These proposals have only arrived, however, after the promotion of a number of policies designed to keep the Party's traditional support in place – notably a somewhat primevalist attack by Dominic Grieve, Shadow Home Secretary, on multiculturalism and proposals for the ‘privatisation of education’. The Tory Party is planning to use taxpayers money to fund up to 5,000 new private schools run by parents, charities ...

Source: www.nce.co.uk --- 1 day ago
Eco-towns are 'bound to fail', the Environment Agency 'toothless', and Sir Michael Pitt’s report into the 2007 floods 'compromised', according to delegates at the Conservative party conference this week. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
Political heavyweights campaigning in Regina on Saturday to shore up support in a key riding weren't pulling any punches. ...

Source: uk.zonow.com --- 17 hours ago
Geoff Hoon MP, Labour’s Transport Secretary, commenting on calls from the Mayor of London’s International Business Advisory Council for London for Boris Johnson to reconsider his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow, said: “The fact that the council has had to use its very first meeting to try to explain to Boris Johnson the [...] ...

Source: www.nce.co.uk --- 1 day ago
A new Conservative administration would hold spending on the Thames Gateway regeneration project a senior shadow minister said this week. ...