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I may have to find a new Young Turk to replace the wonderful author Louise (Bagshawe) Mensch, who resigned from the British Parliament to spend more time with her family: As you know, I have been struggling for some time to find the best outcome for my family life, and have decided, in order to [...]

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It looks like the EU referendum vote in the British Parliament is set for next Thursday!   Here (Thanks AGAIN to ConservativeHome) is the David Nuttall (Young Turk of the Tory Party!) motion: The House calls upon the Government to introduce a Bill in the next session of Parliament to provide for the holding of a [...]

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A poll reported by (and conducted for) ConservativeHome shows that a majority of Conservative Party members want the UK OUT of the EU and a whopping 75% think the Eurozone needs to be broken up rather than see fiscal consolidation of power: Quoting this new ConservativeHome poll The Sunday Telegraph declares that “Euroscepticism is resurgent [...]

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I could hardly believe my eyes.  Steve Baker MP had this comment (Baker thanks several experts for help with this article at the foot) in ConservativeHome this morning.  he says the Federal Reserve is almost insolvent: This capital to asset ratio means that a loss on its assets of 2.5% would be enough to make [...]

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Apparently, the UK ruling Coalition did something right:  They are allowing parliamentary debate on any issue where an electronic petition with 100,000 names on it is submitted to the MPs (and assuming it meets certain criteria). The first such debate may be over capital punishment in the UK.  (The Young Turk Kwasi Kwarteng said he’d [...]

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Since we are in the midst of the debate over increasing the debt limit in the United States, it may be useful to read this article by Young Turk MP Savid Javid.  Here it is at Conservative Home! Some highlights: This (the crisis negotiations in the US on increasing the debt ceiling) is exactly why [...]

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There will be an intriguing debate in London (makes me wish the blogging budget would allow a quick trip across the pond!) on March 3, 2011.  The topic is: Some leaders are so objectionable – Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe – that it may seem only right to strain every sinew to get rid [...]

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MP Rory Stewart, OBE, spoke some time ago on a subject very near to his heart:  Afghanistan.  Here is a column on it from ConservativeHome.  Stewart takes a humanitarian but generally non-interventionist position on continued UK troop involvement in the nation.  Here is a quote from the cited article of Ian Parker in the New [...]

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The Young Turks:  Kwasi Kaerteng, Savid Javid, Louise Bagshawe, Rory Stewart, Steven Baker and the “honorary” YT David Nuttall all voted as follows on the prisoner votes motion: Yes (against prisoner voting) Steven Baker David Nutall Kwasi Kwarteng Savid Javid These did not vote on the motion: Rory Stewart Louise Bagshawe The only reference to [...]

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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 recent vote on the EU budget in the United Kingdom raised some fissures in the Tory party.  Thanks to ConservativeHome, the first story is about the amendment offered by an MP named Douglas Carswell to reduce the EU budget. “Line 2, leave out from ‘2011’ to end and add ‘is concerned at the above-inflation [...]

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David Nuttall was elected MP in the 2010 General Election as a Conservative for the constituency of  Bury North.  (Here’s his bio from Wikipedia and here’s his personal web site)  I could call him a Young Turk but he is only a few years younger than me; however, he has the spirit of the Young [...]

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Now that I have understood and opened my OWN Twitter account I am truly ready – we are following the Young Turks, Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff and Sharron Angle!  I also added the newest Young Turk – Steven Baker.  Sandy PS:  I am at @SandySanders2 Sandy

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I want to thank my background source, Deep Tory, for this idea:  DT suggested that I write about Steven Baker, the new MP from Wycombe.  At the risk of a recurrence of a midlife crisis, here we go! Baker is fabulous; he’s a software engineer by education and training.  He entered politics through activism:  He [...]

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I knew the Young Turk Kwasi Kwarteng would distinguish himself in Parliament.  I figured it might be months or years but in Kwarteng’s maiden speech he came out firing ideas.  No fluff speech here!  As ConservativeHome reports:  “I have to say—even though this is a maiden speech, I will be controversial—that to hear Labour Members [...]

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Savid Javid, the Young Turk who was a former investment banker, spoke in his maiden speech to the Commons for what he called “…sound public finances, low taxation and light regulation.”  That might have been an education enough for some MPs (let alone some constituents) but the newly-minted Javid continued after throwing a slight and [...]

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I wrote two months ago at Virginia Right and Conflicted Libertarian about the Young Turks of the Tory Party – young MPs recently elected to the British Parliament who might have an impact.  It nearly caused me to have a midlife crisis!  But the most prominent of the Young Turks is Rory Stewart.  He has [...]

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If any of the readers of Virginia Right think they have a young turk to nominate from either the GOP or the Tory Party, contact Virginia Right!  Sandy

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My recent series on the Young Turks of the Tory Party were well-read and introduced American readers to several rising stars in the Conservative Party.  But if we had a similar series on Young Turks of the GOP, a prime nominee would be the new GOP candidate for Congress in Idaho District 1:  Raul Labrador.  [...]

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