Conservatives

  • Conservatives berate Labour

    The Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) have weighed in on the international crisis engulfing the Labour government by calling time on Burnham’s premiership.

    “The Labour party is morally bankrupt and broken. It doesn’t have the wherewithal to govern with and has lost its sense of direction.

    We are ready to govern. We have a top leadership team with a mandate ready to go with from day one.”

    Conservatives/Public Release.

    Leading front bench MPs from the official opposition’s benches have called on Burnham to resign and for a general election to be called.

    This comes after a statement by the Foreign Secretary that accuses Israel of crimes against humanity and suggests the UK government will sanction Israel for its ‘settler’ security operations in West Bank.

  • Badenoch changes top team

    The Conservatives are changing things around, but it’s difficult to see how the UK public is going to notice. The top tier is now an invisible shadow cabinet due to the low profile of many of the figures, but hard work now may pay off.

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    A graphic showing a new party ‘unit’ setup by the Conservatives (Credit: @Conservatives/X).

    Badenoch has kept a number of her strongest players in powerful positions and close to her leadership, such as Andrew Griffith MP as Shadow Chancellor, Chris Philp MP as Shadow Home Secretary, and Victoria Atkins MP as Shadow Environment Secretary.

    The ambition on her behalf is to boost the economic chances of the UK populations, to regain control of borders and policing, and to get rid of failed climate policies. These are clever candidates for such tasks before them.

  • Update: Badenoch tax scare

    Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) is not fighting for her career after it emerged a scam entity has been trying to implicate her in a London-wide campaign of harassment and intimidation.

    This site reported on Saturday that Badenoch faced accusations of paying zero Council Tax.

    It now emerges that a new entity, known as ‘National Security Centre’, has targeted her as well as thousands of others in a scam involving false accusations and compensation claims by local authorities.

    A small number of ‘activists’ for the group were spotted yesterday manoeuvring a vehicle outside London Waterloo in a stunt designed as a setup for a media round involving UK production companies to canvass for support.

    Badenoch is not currently under suspicion but an investigation may have already started.

  • It’s a long road ahead for a return to prosperity

    Economic ambition is in conservative DNA, and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) is pitching for an economic vision that has scope and depth to its concerns.

    But the effort to build back following crisis after crisis takes a lot more than a few sweeping changes.

    The regimes in Departments that matter need to be enlightened, which takes a lot of internal discussion and full adaptation to the new requirements. Planning also takes time away from implementation, and no one survives long periods or spells of this.

    Backing Business UK is a small group made up of MPs who believe in pursuing this as a main political project.

    “We believe that a thriving private sector is the only way to fund public services, create jobs, and raise living standards for everyone.”

    – Backing Business UK/Website.

    Its leader, Andrew Griffith MP (Arundel and South Downs/Conservatives) is an eclectic spokesperson for his generations belief in the power of purpose at the helm. He really thinks everything he says will happen.

    The ‘Build Back Bloc’, made up of believers like Griffith, who stay on the fringes to keep “real” ideas alive, need the support of a much larger base across the country – as well as their party leader.

    At the centre of the Conservatives is a field of well-known people, and the structure and stability of this ‘bubble’ is preferred over scattered conversations here and there. They have no further to look to than themselves.

    The engagement of conservatives over their own ideas is now a central part of a plan for a return to power. It also promises milestones for the road ahead. The signs are pointing to a resurgence in management that will help the UK to boom.

  • Badenoch calls for pragmatism in public finances

    Kemi Badenoch is leading the Conservatives into a new era, but it’s taking time. Although fourteen years of government has bedded in a new style of politics, she has work to do to make it electable again.

    Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) speaking to Piers Morgan about her politics (Source: @PiersMorganUncensored/YouTube).

    The long run ended badly. It ruined confidence for a return to power because of such a poor result. Badenoch needs to realign the party out of power. She has to give it new meaning and purpose.

  • What must Heseltine be thinking now?

    Nigel Farage? Destroy him.

    Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.

    Nigel Farage in power would be appalling.

    Such is the diary of Lord Heseltine, a Tory grandee and rogue in the Upper House. He sees Farage and Reform UK as something akin to 1939. And his position? Churchill, in character and attitude.

    He lacks the action, though.

    A once powerful figure in Conservative politics, governing rather than following while in Cabinet positions, he now reflects on the position of younger (and youthful) hopefuls in the same political system.

    He sounds as sure as Winston, but lacks the accuracy.

    He’s a nice enough man, and amicable in person to all who meet him from any political persuasion, but his analysis falls far short. He can’t honestly see this – as innocent, perhaps naïve as it is – in such terms as these?

  • Tories face challenge at the locals tomorrow

    The local elections tomorrow are a huge challenge for the Conservatives as they hope to steer clear of a total washout in support.

    They don’t want to end up at the mercy of Farage if he gets a landslide for his slate of candidates, sees an opportunity for increasing a Westminster seat share, and hammers them later.

    They don’t have a strong local support base at present, either, unlike Labour or Reform UK. Both have made efforts to keep a close appeal to issues that matter in Council areas across the UK.

    It’s hard not to notice that anything touching on community concerns is right at the top of many people’s priority list.

    Also, they only have a national appeal due to time they’ve spent in the Commons keeping the Opposition argument alive.

    They struggle to stay afloat in a rowdy Parliament. Albeit Prime Minister’s Questions has gone well on balance, Labour are having a much easier time of it.

  • Badenoch laments the hereditary exit from the Lords

    After the last embers of a wealthy partisanship in the House of Lords have died out, Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex/Conservatives) has come out swinging online for those that have now left its hallowed chamber, never to return, but with little reason to.

    “So today, as an era closes, I want to put on record my profound gratitude and admiration for our hereditary peers. Britain has been better governed because of them. The Conservative Party has been stronger because of them. And Parliament will be poorer without them.”

    – Kemi Badenoch MP/X

    Over centuries, these rarer folk have truly helped to define – along with their families – the way, the truth, and the life of the nation. It’s to be no more, now, but they’ll live, continuing their presence here, in a country that they helped to define, sustain, and probably fund.

  • The Conservatives need a stronger energy policy

    The belief that energy should still be an expensive commodity for the average consumer in the UK is beginning to look like a fallacy. As more investment goes into green technology and it’s ever more evident that we’re not going to be reliant on oilfields for our source and supply in the near future, the only option is lower prices.

    This is our way out of a binding infrastructure of high charges and abusive pricing that’s lasted many conflicts and wars and has not been resolved by much international effort.

    A campaign poster showing Conservative aims and ambitions for cheaper energy (Credit: The Conservative Party/LinkedIn).

    The homegrown energy production that’s promised by new energy developments proves that pricing can be resolved in a much more local forum than before. It also shows that energy is not centralised or concentrated on particular countries but is now becoming a potential for any country.

    The Conservatives are often at the forefront of arguing that a statement of affairs is not necessarily a firm fact of the matter. And yet, it struggles to come out with a firm guarantee that lower prices will become a reality for every consumer.

    The UK now has a sort of energy production capacity that is sovereign and independent of other states. Because it’s green it’s also reliant on more local conditions and is less of a subject of controversy for people overseas. This is our only option to exit a punitive and cruel international market. It’s only problem is how far party’s are willing to invest in it.

  • Badenoch wants defence to do smart things

    Admittedly, Kemi Badenoch’s approach to politics isn’t thrilling, but it’s now beginning to appear to go places. The appeal of a quieter campaign to set out aspirations is likely gaining support from all of the right sources. Now, as the Prime Minister struggles to galvanise enough plaudits for his own agenda, Badenoch is finding herself capable of setting out her objectives in front of an attentive audience.

    Her latest outing at the London Defence Conference is just such an example of a circumspect and almost clandestine manoeuvre to get heard in the centre ground. She wants to pull in the doubters, objectors, and even naysayers to distil a vision that might just get us over the finish line, putting the frustrations of a faltering new Labour era behind us.

    The plan is built on being smart, and the latest innovations are free flowing points in her pitch for a return to military strength. She strains to offer an integration of all the newer things into a classical British mindset that works. It’s not to please America, satisfy Europe, or placate powers further off, but just make ends meet. Her deal is for all that it promises us it can be.

    The fulfilment of this mission is a hard task even for a historic Conservative party that sees the UK has been pushed to the margins, principally by Labour, which seeks to just give anything away. The frustration over the Chagos Islands has followed nervous wrangling over the Falklands, Gibraltar, and even Northern Ireland – not to mention the Gaza Strip – in a litany of errors and rebukes. It’s left many people here in need of further clarity.

    The chances of Badenoch imminently winning an election are better but not greater than before. She has to find a way to build back her party so that it could win her access to Number 10. If events last, it could be on the issue of defence itself. It’s a popular move. Many people are looking for a strong sense of security in a volatile world. Her sensitivity to this may find a way through and secure her time in office.

  • Liz Truss sees past the clutter

    Liz Truss is a former Prime Minister establishing her own standing after a drubbing at the stumps. It didn’t impress many that she could communicate, hold a meeting, and drive conversations about ideas forward. This isn’t the whole point about her short tenure, but apart from claims that her government’s plan fell far short of the mark, if given enough time her bright intellect may have renewed a lot about the tired State that’s around us.

    Liz Truss speaking at a CPAC event in Texas on her idea for a renewal of American politics.

    It’s certainly now her message to others, and her appearance at CPAC in Grapevine, Texas levelled this teaching of a new model of a prosecutor style of politics to get rid of the rubbish that other party’s put in across the pond. It’s certainly a rallying cry here, because Labour have now tried twice to marshal their powerful legacy as a rhetoric for changes here, there, and everywhere in a fix-everything approach for modern problems.

  • Exclusive: Tory scams

    The end of Rishi Sunak’s Premiership is believed to have come about due to infighting in Conservative offices and in London over increasing levels of corruption in the party.

    This is the conclusion of insider and international sources who have looked at the matter.

    It was said to be seen months before the fateful July 2024 election, after which the historic party of the centre right saw its seat share drop to its lowest ever modern level.

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    A graphic showing six names of Tory groups alleged of financial corruption before the last general election.

    The outward forms of corruption are said to be about personal finance, and specifically the promise of loans and other financial products.

    An undercover investigation by a private China-based research group was offered personal help of up to £1 million to resolve personal debts.

    The similarities between attempts by Conservative MP’s and their staff is said to have raised concerns beyond the betting scandal that erupted in some national press outlets.

  • Exclusive: Media manipulator

    In a stunning exclusive for Conservative News Site, a media manipulator alleged of sabotaging the public relations of the Conservative Party and also suppressing reports favourable to Conservative MP’s has now been spotted.

    A suspect alleged of targeted interference in political matters seen here in Reading, Berkshire.

    He’s been evading investigation for over ten years, but is believed to have still been active. He’s previously acted in London, using hundreds of contacts in national titles to ply his ugly, evil trade.

  • Conservatives are still searching for answers

    The Conservatives in the UK like to think their platform is sorted. The party has a professional appeal that garners support in itself. Yet it’s not got all its sticks together.

    Their leader, Kemi Badenoch, does a good job at rallying the crowd to a cause, but I think that even in her best moments she doesn’t know what she’s really running for.

    The party is a die hard pragmatist that has seen through many of its own worries, and even some of the UK’s own. Yet it’s time for something more from an organisation that claims a position here.

    Their collective learnings amounts to more than some of their recent posturing, surely. It takes a packed manifesto to really make a punch work, and Badenoch needs to pull out all the ideas she’s got.

  • Thatcher knew about reality

    The truest test of character for a leader is a grip on reality. This is tried in politics by their recollection of what’s important by the questioning of those that believe it matters most to their very own lives.

    At least, this is what Margaret Thatcher – the former Conservative Prime Minister and first female in the position – said about the duty as she spoke about her time in Number 10 to me over a brief lunch.

    It’s not that I admired her at first, but I was able to put together what she said with what I had seen to gather that she was a real Conservative, a true libertarian at heart.

    It didn’t just matter if some said it, she felt it was also necessary to reason it through, too, and this point, I considered, had helped her to deepen her understanding of all that she needed to know.

    Her gift was for getting to know people well, or at least getting into their company to find them out and start it off.

    She had principles – or rules – in mind that helped her to do it. “There is nothing to be gained by being familiar,” she said, “everything is lost in that way, always.” She retained a moderate approach to doing this always.

    The practice helped build up a knowledge base of what it is people wanted. It stopped her assuming it and led her into the “realm of knowing,” as she put it. It’s how most of her assumptions were road tested before going to print.