Chris Dillow thinks that that lefties may actually be more conservative than Conservatives: I suspect a reverence for English traditions is more common on the Left than amongst the Conservative Party. Neil Clark’s tastes border on the reactionary; Francis Sedgemore is a Morrisman; you’ll struggle to find a Conservative voter at a meeting of CAMRA or at a Martin Carthy gig. And when Shuggy wr...

Congratulations go to David Schofield, the new Conservative councillor for the Temple Newsam ward on Leeds City Council. This was previously held by Labour. The most worrying aspect of the evening was Labour being pushed into third place by the BNP. The BNP polled 1502 votes, just 283 votes behind Mr Schofield.  It is becoming increasingly likely the BNP may poll a large enough percentage of ...

This may seem strange given last Thursday's local election results culminating in the triumph of Boris Johnson in the London Mayoral election but I think this is the high point of Conservative success at local level.This doesn't mean the Conservatives can't or won't win the next General Election (they probably will though a cautionary note remains that the Conservatives have not won a substantial ...

Janice Small of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform on the Conservative debate about the electoral system: We have just seen the election of the BNP under a PR system. But let’s be clear – it wasn’t the system – the BNP gained their council seats under FPTP, the electorate was having the equivalent of a peasants’ revolt against all politicians. As Labour contempl...

From Nick Lowles, on Hope Not Hate How much of a thorn is the English Democrats going to be for the BNP? All day I’ve been predicting that much of the BNP vote will switch to UKIP in the Europeans. An interesting vote in Kent seems to confirm that where there is a more ‘respectable’ rightwing

Eddy Butler, the former National Front, former BNP, former Freedom Party, former BNP a couple more times, former BNP national elections co-ordinator, has joined the English Democrats. The announcement, which was the EDP’s worst kept secret since his mate Richard Barnbrook joined in January, will be a bitter blow to the handful of party activists that haven’t

The first by-election of 2010 has resulted in a Liberal Democrat gain from the Conservatives in Harrogate. The result: Liberal Democrat Greta Knight: 688 Conservatives: 246 BNP: 92 Labour: 73 The by-election was caused by the death of the previous councillor – who had been elected as a Liberal Democrat but subsequently defected to the Conservative Party. Congratulations to Councillor Knight ...

We are Conservatives now; we will be Conservatives in May 2015, and at every election in between, says deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.

You DO have to smile at the sheer desperation of it all. I refer to the fact that Denis McShane, the senior Labour MP, has determined that the Conservative Party has prepared the way for a BNP breakthrough next month...you can read his drivel here. The thing is that a LOT of BNP electoral support will come from what used to be called traditional Labour heartland voters! So if McShane wants to be a...

Yesterday Tim Montgomerie wrote a depressing piece on Conservative Home, reporting the views of Number 10 stating that Conservative victory in the 2015 election would be difficult if not impossible, and that a further period of Coalition with the Lib Dems might be the best outcome. This pessimism was based on the inability of Conservatives