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John Redwood MP for Wokingham

These are the most recent articles mentioning "conservatives" Britain in Europe Posted 03/28/08, 14:55 ... olitical power of our century that come from the excellence of US technology and from the rise of mighty India and China. Professor Menon sniffs at Conservatives offering a referendum on Lisbon for no good reason. We have always said further transfers of power to Brussels need the consent of the B... 16 years ago the first woman Speaker was elected by the Commons Posted 04/27/08, 06:57 ... fourth election victory in a row, and had not detected the feelings of unease and unhappiness on the doorsteps. They did not seem to grasp that the Conservatives won the 1992 election despite the background and the ERM policy, not because of it.It seemed to me it would have been wrong to have fla... Local Election results in Wokingham Posted 05/03/08, 07:35 In the Wokingham Parliamentary constituency 8 District Unitary Council seats were contested. The Conservatives won all eight, gaining one seat. The aggregate share of the vote was as follows: Conservative 58.2% Lib Dem 28.5% ... What should Gordon do now? Posted 05/03/08, 07:06 ... our the promise. It has become an issue of trust. Unfortunately the approach your other advisers urged you to follow has not worked. The Conservatives outpolled us by 20% in the Council contests, and Boris Johnson beat Ken by 6% in the crucial London seats. Let me explain what I think h... PR encourages extremes and prevents majority control Posted 05/03/08, 06:18 ... ing a majority, giving more power to unelected officials as a result. The London Assembly elections shows this off to perfection. On a night when the Conservatives won a good majority on the Assembly on a first past the post basis, PR intervened to deprive them of a majority. It did so by giving a s... Tax the bin or bin the tax? Posted 05/06/08, 07:19 ... more people to jail if they refuse the fines or offend too often. It will be intrusive, bureaucratic, expensive, vexatious and penal. If the Conservatives are really lucky, the Prime Minister will dither before bringing it in. It will then be brought in in trial places, only for a Labour re... The lessons of Crewe for both main political parties Posted 05/23/08, 06:47 ... he Crewe by election was worse than Labour™s efforts to spin it before the defeat. Even the Labour spin machine could not bring themselves to say the Conservatives needed a swing of over 20% to have a œgood night�, and were suggesting the Conservative majority needed to be over 5000 to show progress... Let’s cut through the tax and spend debate Posted 07/15/08, 07:33 ... he tax and spend position in the usual Labour government way. As we have been taught, the government™s spending totals are designed as a trap for the Conservatives. Indeed, that is probably their only purpose now, as they are works of fiction. If Conservatives say they will match the totals then we ... Modernising the Conservatives and splitting the Anglicans - a story of two leaderships Posted 06/29/08, 07:54 Today is a good day to review the progress of two leaders at modernising their institutions. David Cameron™s Conservatives are in good shape on the back of election victories. There are many more women prospective candidates. Homosexual MPs and candidates are treated like any... It could be safer in Swindon Posted 07/15/08, 10:05 ... icy based on curbing speed is not going to stop most accidents. Bad junction design allied to poor driving causes many accidents. I trust the Swindon Conservatives will look at improving traffic flows and helping segregation at junctions to cut the risk of collisions. party™s most successful period... Core vote or Middle Britain - what should Labour now do? Posted 07/26/08, 06:29 ... he Labour movement. Pulling out of the EU was after all Labour policy in the 1980s. Wishing to restore our civil liberties is a passion of many of us Conservatives today, but there are other Conservatives who hold more authoritarian views, whilst many in Labour hate their government™s attack on our ... Continental misunderstandings Posted 07/31/08, 05:59 ... fore the last election. He will keep his word to the party, and our candidates will keep their word to the electorate if elected. 2. œWe assume the Conservatives will go along with the European project and with the Lisbon settlement “ the UK has always in the past joined in, albeit reluctantly and... The lingering death of New Labour Posted 08/31/08, 05:54 ... ur electable. It said that New Labour would offer economic efficiency allied to social justice. At face value it was a good offer, attractive to many Conservatives. Who doesn™t want economic growth and prosperity, and who doesn™t want that to be used to help the less well off? it sought to banish me... The lingering death of New Labour Posted 08/31/08, 05:54 ... ur electable. It said that New Labour would offer economic efficiency allied to social justice. At face value it was a good offer, attractive to many Conservatives. Who doesn’t want economic growth and prosperity, and who doesn’t want that to be used to help the less well off? it sought ... How parties respond to dire circumstances Posted 09/21/08, 08:23 A few years ago when the Conservatives were stuck in the low 30s in the polls it became fashionable for the party hierarchy to try to copy everything Blair had said and done in the late 1990s when he was so popular. It did not work as a strategy, for people thought to themselves if even the ... Government in debt - now at £1.8 trillion Posted 10/21/08, 07:44 ... nd loan books and pension deficits. The BBC wanted to score a couple of points against him this morning. The first was to remind him that the Conservatives did not include pension liability in the figures they used to publish for government debt when in government. That is correct. Mr Newmar... The Conservative party took no money - end of story Posted 10/22/08, 06:27 What a fuss about nothing. If the Conservatives had taken money from a British company (legal) as a conduit for money from an overseas resident (illegal) that would have been an interesting story and a complex web to untangle. Fortunately we learn they showed judgement and took no such donation. ... Cutting carbon Posted 11/01/08, 08:33 The Conservatives had a great policy for cutting carbon outputs. It was called electricity privatisation. As soon as the industry was denationalised, it switched from building big coal power stations that were only around 35% fuel efficient, to building gas fired stations that were more than 5... Slimming the BBC would be so easy Posted 11/02/08, 14:09 I am glad that the sick joke of Mr Ross has a good outcome - both Labour and the Conservatives now think pay is out of control at the BBC. This state pensioner needs to gain some financial discipline quickly, so the licence payer gets better value for the money we are forced to pay. The large num... More BBC lies about the Tories Posted 11/22/08, 09:04 This morning the Today programme kept repeating that the Conservatives have done a U turn on public spending. Instead what they did was do exactly what they promised - agree to Labour spending up to 2009, and then review it. They have now reviewed it and decided spending has to be lower than Labou... Welfare reform - back to the future? Posted 12/10/08, 07:42 In Opposition Gordon Brown came up with a sensible economic policy which was attractive to moderate conservatives and moderate socialists. He said: 1. Cut the costs of welfare by getting more people back to work. He called welfare expenditure the œcosts of economic failure� 2. Cut the costs of i... Does prison work? Posted 12/26/08, 08:38 ... ing we learn that the government has hit a target it set for itself, by sending back some prisoners to their home countries. One cheer for that. The Conservatives have shown that many were let out early, and a lot are still not returned to their homelands. We also need to remember that the governme... << back