John Redwood's solution to the financial crisis: "The truth is that both the UK and the US have to cut living standards." Is that official Tory economic policy: "you all need to live less well"?
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LukeAkehurst on 3rd Dec 2008 (via lukeakehurst.blogspot.com)
John Redwood was mightly impressed with HBO's production of 'John Adams', I thought it was worth a second gallop through after having made a point of catching the series on BBC 4 in the Autumn. I have made a number of comments on this posting by John Redwood, basically Redwood is a high minded Libertarian lost in the swamps of the Conservative Party, his voting for Maastricht I fail...
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LookingForAVoice on 29th Dec 2008 (via lookingforavoice.blogspot.com)
Not a happy time for the Conservatives in Wokingham where not one but two party members are standing as independent candidates against John Redwood. I’d already highlighted how (ex) Conservative Town Councillor Robin Smith was standing against John Redwood (see more details in the Reading Chronicle). As pointed out in the comments, there is in fact a
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 24th Apr 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
John Redwood is interviewed by Andrew Neil on Straight Talk this weekend, and there's a rather eyecatching exchange where the Tory MP claims that he's "not sure" whether ministers will be able to vote in the 1922 Committee, after all: John Redwood: ...as I understand the ballot, the ballot was about whether Ministers should come regularly to the 22 or not, and so I have no prob...
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Spectator on 21st May 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Tory MP John Redwood points out to his coalition colleague Vince Cable that capitalism has also provided him with a comfortable living.
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BBCPolitics on 24th Sep 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
You might enjoy: Tim Montgomerie in Conservative Home: A letter complaining about Team Cameron’s power is circulated to all Tory MPs John Redwood in John Redwood’s Diary: The Americans don’t get it James Kirkup in Three Line Whip: Gordon Brown’s...
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CommentCentral on 17th Jun 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
As far as I’ve been able to find our, Cllr Robin Smith (Conservative) is the same as Robin Smith, Independent Parliamentary candidate in Wokingham, where the Conservative candidate is one John Redwood. Curious.
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 23rd Apr 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Tom Harris MP rips into Tory blogger John Redwood over transport matters: “John is an obviously intelligent bloke who has a reputation for bringing an expert level of detailed analysis to his subjects, particularly the economy. But I detect an element of emperor’s new clothes in most of his writing, and his post on Ruth Kelly
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LabourMatters on 25th Sep 2008 (via labourmatters.com)