For those Conservative Home readers who did not get chance to see this week's Dispatches, it is well worth 45 minutes of your time (it can be viewed here). The subject was the often disastrous consequences of first cousin marriage....
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CentreRight on 25th Aug 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
David Cameron just told the Tory conference that he supported gay marriage "because I am a Conservative". In last week's issue of the Spectator, Douglas Murray said that the best arguments in favour of gay marriage are conservative ones. For the benefit of CoffeeHousers, here is Douglas's piece. In America a new generation of Republicans is challenging the traditional...
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Spectator on 5th Oct 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Conservative Councillor James Malliff is in trouble with his party after attacking David Cameron’s support for gay marriage, saying that you “may as well legalise marriage with animals”. The Conservative Party says that action is being taken against him for “completely unacceptable” language. But wait, rummage through your political memories and r...
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 13th Oct 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
Tim Montgomerie provides his (as you would expect) perceptive guide to newspaper endorsements at the next General Election. Which prompts me to speculate - who will Conservative Home endorse? I am not trying to be funny. Conservative Home has built...
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CommentCentral on 17th Apr 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
Conservative Home has surveyed its Tory loyalist audience, and headlined the results of a 'grassroots' poll. Amazingly, 86% of ConHome readers (they headline this as 86% of Tory members, which is a nice bit of assimilation) would prefer a minority Conservative government to a coalition. Next contestant Conservative Home, special subject the bleeding obvious. And probably an equally large number of...
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PoliticsEtc on 7th May 2010 (via sgspolitics.blogspot.com)
When Edward McMillan-Scott became a former Conservative MEP a month ago, I wrote in his defence. I have never liked his views on Europe - indeed we are at opposite ends of the Conservative Party, but I did think he was an honourable man. After reading Michal Kaminski's article for Conservative Home, I have realised I was too quick to defend McMillan-Scott and too quick to attack the members a...
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AndrewAllison on 12th Aug 2009 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
Today the polls are open to vote for your Members of the European Parliament. You might not think that this is important but there are a few good reasons why it is worth turning up to your polling station and voting Conservative. Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home covers it well:- Vote Conservative because it's the vote that Labour fears most.Vote Conservative because of David Cameron'...
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ScullysBlogSpot on 4th Jun 2009 (via paulscully.blogspot.com)
A Conservative MEP has rubbished accepted climate change theories in a piece on Conservative Home, showing the side of the Tories David 'Camera-On' doesn't want you to see. On the influential Conservative Home site Richard Helmer MEP, also Chairman of a body dubiously-called the Freedom Association, promotes the controversial and serial contrarian view popular among the hard right /...
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Labourhome on 16th Oct 2008 (via labourhome.org)
So what sort of people will constitute the ranks of the likely next Conservative government? Well... "They are socially conservative and want to reduce the time limit for abortion to 22 weeks or lower. Most of them want tax breaks which discriminate in favour of marriage. But the Conservative class of 2010 - David Cameron's likely intake of MPs if he wins the next general election - are...
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ATangledWeb on 9th Sep 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)