Tim Montgomerie of conservativehome has detailed five changes David Cameron must make to the conservative party.
The headings are:
1 Unethical MPs must cease to be conservative MPs.
2 Introduce a power of recall for MPs between elections.
3 The leadership must stop hiding behind Commons convention and support calls for the Speaker to go.
4 Put together a plan that will substantially reduce the cost of politics.
5. Put forward a bold plan to renew Britain.
All good ideas with the exception of the last. Britain is finished and clinging onto the the belief that it can be renewed is wishful thinking. It would be far better if he assisted by ensuring Scotland has the independence referendum.
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A little list of meaningless platitudes
(1) who decides the ethics?
(2)unworkable
(3)he already knows and will step down
(4)its not the known cost that causes the problem it is the hidden
and unknown cost.
(5)what does this mean anything to any person....
It would be far better if he assisted by ensuring Scotland has the independence referendum.Well, funnily enough I agree with you about that; that's a polite Highlander's way of saying I do not share your view as expressed in the immediately preceding sentence. The reason I agree with you on the holding of a referendum, and the sooner the better, is to clarify once and for all that the current generatiion of Scots is much less committed to full separation (aka 'independence') than the SNP would have us believe.
In another place you made a rather sweeping statement in the comments there; I do not make a similar sweeping statement. If a referendum is held and it achieves your objective then I will have been shown to be wrong, but if it did not achieve your objective then I hope you will accept that it should be on hold for 'a generation' (say 20 or 25 years) until a new generation of Scots can be asked again, if the mood seems to merit it. Perhaps there will be a general desire for what you want to see happen at that time, but all the polling shows that is not the case today, however much the SNP may wish to convince us it does.
In summary, my attitude is 'bring it on'.
I apologise for using comment moderation but, due to a fool calling himself Scottish Unionist trying to spoil my blog, I consider it necessary at present.I have not of course read the comments Scottish Unionist may have been tring to post here which you found 'spoil' your blog and in any case it is your blog and you naturally do what you want, just as I do in my own little blog.
I have however read Scottish Unionist's blog regularly for quite a while now (at least a year, probably more) and I must say that whilst he is strident in his views, I have never had the feeling he lies or concocts stories, quite the reverse. Rather it seems to me that some of the bald truths he writes are unanswerable - perhaps that's what irritates you so much? I don't happen to agree with everything he writes by any means, even if the basic premise of the blog title represents a view I share.
Bill, please note the 'calling himself Scottish Unionist'. The true SU, I'm quite sure, wouldn't have behaved the way this faker did pasteing lengthy pieces from Wiki on here and doing it at least 30 times a day.
I understand Wardog warned SU about what was happening here and I'm sure he understands that it is not directed at him. He's known for some time there is someone who impersonates him.
Does that explain it?
David Cameron, leader of the party, will decide the ethics surely Niko. Good morning by the way.
The power of recall is a good idea I think.
I agree with you about no 4, believe it or not!
Apologies if I made a sweeping statement Bill, I do try to be precise although at times I'm interrupted and my thoughts then become less structured I know.
I'm not at all sure a referendum next year would go be won by the SNP because the unionist parties are so against it.
I disagree with your comment 'if the mood seems to merit it'. Who's going to judge the mood? The mood, if the media and more or less the whole of the UK are to believed are against it now but it's a bit like the Lisbon Treaty business, how do we know unless people are asked?
15 years in plenty long enough until another attempt. It's 30 years since the last attempt which would have worked if lies hadn't been the foundation of the opposition. I think the public are a lot less gullible today.
The young are far more for independence than my generation so I'm sure they will want to get on with it but I'll be long gone by then.
Dinne ye start oan me aboot resigning or onything! Ah'm stayin PIT!
What about a 6th ? Call the party to make a vote of no confidence and hold an election...
Susbrosa (good morning)
I find the idea the leader of a political party setting the ethics is somewhat like allowing a football team being allowed to set the rules of play.
as for no (5) they might as well of said we must do something.
Somebody has been faking me all over the Blogs making comments and linking to me Blog.
Making out i am pro-Independence etc seems a pointless exercise to me.
Oh dear Niko. Seems like you need a blogging policeman. Didn't one win some award recently?
Spook, Cameron can't call a vote of no confidence in Brown and his party because his party's just as guilty as the government.
It's Brown who has to call the election unfortunately and you know that won't happen until he's pulled kicking and screaming from No 10.
Yoohoo Mr Martin, you useless lump of lard you are!
Love your blog by the way. Have a read folks. Mind you I'm gonnae need an interpreter if it gets ony mair Glesgae.
Aye Speaker Martin, that's whaur ye shud be, still doon the pit.
Also: move to fixed term parliaments of 4 or 5 years (HM can still do the appointing bit); and limit the term of any individual PM to two terms.
(p.s. Martin was a steel worker. Or were you thinking of the Biblical 'pit'..?)
I find the idea the leader of a political party setting the ethics is somewhat like allowing a football team being allowed to set the rules of play.
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Like Jimmy, Tone and Mandy?
Mek must have been the Biblical pit if he was a steel worker although aren't foundries sometimes referred to as pits?
Yes fixed terms need to be introduced along with someone's suggestion that an MP can only sit 2 or 3 terms. Keep everyone on their toes.
I thought that OR but it wasn't my suggestion, it was Tim Mongomerie's; you know Dale's pal ;)
Thanks for clarifying about the 'Scottish Unionist' impersonator.
... would have worked if lies hadn't been the foundation of the opposition. I think the public are a lot less gullible today.Forgive, but this is just about as slid as my mischievous 'if the mood seemms to merit it', which you took exception to. Basically, you seem to be saying that because the vote didn't go the way you wished it to that the actual result was founded upon 'lies' promulgated by your opponents. I too believe the public are generally speaking not 'gullible', specially when fed propaganda from the SNP; that's why I want a referendum to test whether the SNP support is as solid as they owuld have us believe. It's certainly a good thing that the decades-long monopoly of power in Scotland by Labour is somewhat dented of late, but it still holds sway in Scotland's Westminster representation (which I accept you wish to do away with anyway) and across swathes of Scotland in local government, so let's not get carried away now that the SNP holds a pretty precarious grip on power at Holyrood.
Auch Bill, I didn't take exception to your mood comment I just disagreed because you didn't say who would be the mood forecaster.
I'm afraid my knowledge of 1979 is from history books as I wasn't in this country then and I also had no serious interest in politics. From what I've read there were dirty tricks going on but I wasn't present so can't verify anything.
The SNP do have a strong base of around 30-33% I would say and that's speaking from experience of over a decade ago. I have no reason to think it has fallen.
I don't want to do away with Westminster, it's rather a beautiful building :) It would be better used as the English Parliament though.
True the SNP hold in government is very slack but I'm sure they would have a much greater majority if there was an election right now. This is not because they're seen to be governing far more openly and professionally than the last bunch but also because labour are of such poor quality in opposition.
If labour was to up the game then things would change but I can't see that happening in this present political climate. They need to rid themselves of all these ex union people and allow young ones to replace them.
Fortunately for the SNP there are quite a few younger very capable people waiting in the wings.
Hello I'm back
How about doing away with the Whipping system?
Morning FC, good to see you.
Cameron will bottle it and not go for the jugular after or during the Speaker no-confidence debate
A little posturing doesn't do any harm FC, does it?
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