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The vote is today and we should have results early this evening on the Eastleigh by-election, formerly held by the LibDems. The Evening Standard has this headline: Eastleigh voters ‘less likely to run from Ukip canvassers’ And some voters interviewed say UKIP could pull off the surprise upset victory: Voters in Eastleigh today admitted the [...]

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The Eastleigh riding by-election for local parliament is getting very interesting.  Very interesting indeed.  UKIP could win after all!  Certainly very good possibility of their best turnout ever.  I reported the Lord Ashcroft poll this AM but the Guardian is reporting by one of its bloggers that two (the third poll is the Ashcroft one) [...]

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This report from UKIP shows that UKIP policies are gaining popular support. There is a poll in the Independent that states that over 1/3 of Tory voters are considering switching to the anti-EU libertarian party! Almost one in three people who voted Conservative at the last election are ready to back the UK Independence Party, [...]

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In today’s ToryDiary, we have this report: Cameron appointed to create new era of hard-headed, pro-market UN development policies Pro-market UN development policies?  Sounds like an oxymoron (pun not intended!) to me!  But there actually is some encouraging items in this article: The Millennium Development goals sound like and in some ways are congruent with [...]

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Although I am for Scottish independence under certain conditions, I totally oppose foreigners having a say in voting (as opposed to blogging I suppose!) in the independence referendum.  Check out this article: DAVID Cameron last night faced a backlash from angry Tory back-benchers after it emerged that foreign nationals will have a say in the [...]

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The BBC reports that former LibDem head Charles Kennedy and Boris Johnson, Tory Mayor of London call for a EU referendum! This UK blog is dedicated to an EU referendum.   They share many of my concerns about NGOs and global institutions: On the one hand there is the growing power of the transnational organizations. [...]

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Tim Montgomerie reported in ConservativeHome today that his survey showed that the Tory readers of his column, just over a third would cast a second preference vote for UKIP: A large plurality (44.4%) of respondents wouldn’t use their second preference. 34.5% would vote UKIP. 8.7% would vote Conservative (which suggests about one-in-ten Tory members are [...]

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The UKIP came in third in a local by-election in Tunbridge West behind the Tory and the LibDem candidates. Claire Brown took one of two seats for the Pembury Ward on Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in a 13.8% swing. The UKIP candidate came third. Ms Brown won 578 votes, Conservative Robert William 460 and UKIP [...]

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In ConservativeHome today, we have the excellent essay from MP David Davis on today’s debate on prisoner voting.  The facts of the cases that gave rise to this terrible decision are more appalling than I realized.  The first case was brought by a convicted murderer and the second one was from a rapist.  The result [...]

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This first article is from one I do not know.  He is a blogger for ConservativeHome (Can I sign up to do that too?) in the UK named Melanchthon.  (I wonder if he is a Lutheran – there was a Philipp Melanchthon who was an early student of Luther and provided much of the intellectual [...]

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The Tory Diary at ConservativeHome (that excellent web site that I look at often and you should too) speaks on the subject that Parliament will not allow:  A referendum on Great Britain’s EU membership.  Tim Montgomerie concluded: I ‘came out‘ as someone who thinks Britain would be ‘better off out’ last May. When I read [...]

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Thanks to again the unofficial Tory website (www.conservativehome.com) we have this disturbing article suggesting that followers of Christ may be excluded from certain jobs.  Here are some highlights from Dr. Martin Parsons’ article: I knew Greg from the time I was a teenager, he was the sort of person who would do anything for anyone. [...]

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Rory Stewart advised the BBC recently the first three weeks as a new MP.  It was filled with tradition, pomp/circumstance and making new friends. WEEK ONE: Last night was the most dramatic event I think I’ve ever witnessed. It was in the 1922 committee room, incredible, as you can imagine, panelled oaked room with pictures [...]

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That’s the number of votes the various UKIP candidates garnered in the past UK election.  The UKIP got the most votes of any political party that did not win a seat in Parliament.  I was pleased to see that the UKIP beat soundly the racist British National Party. They may have also affected the size of [...]

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