Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#141
The Nasty party now also have loony's.......that`s old news....................
David Cameron ally: Tory activists are mad, swivel-eyed loons
Senior Tory made remarks in response to question about MPs who voted for EU referendum
amendment in Queen's speech
The publication of remarks made by a senior Tory about 'mad, swivel-eyed loons' is an embarassment
for David Cameron.
Downing Street is wrestling with a dilemma over how to respond after a close ally of David Cameron
was alleged to have described Tory activists as "mad, swivel-eyed loons".
In remarks immediately seized on by Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, the senior Tory said that the
party's MPs have to rebel against the leadership because they face pressure from hardline associations.
Farage, who knows the identity of the Tory, tweeted: "If you are a Conservative supporter who believes in
Ukip ideas then your party hates you. Come and join us."
The senior Tory made the remarks - in earshot of journalists - after being asked about the decision of
116 Tory MPs to defy the prime minister and vote in favour of an amendment regretting the absence of
a EU referendum in the Queen's speech.
The Conservative said: "It's fine. There's really no problem. The MPs just have to do it because the
associations tell them to, and the associations are all mad, swivel-eyed loons."
Downing Street faced pressure on Friday evening because the Tory has been well known to the prime minister
for many years and is due to play a significant role in the party's preparations for the general election.
The Times, Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, who all reported the remarks and who know the identity of the
Tory, declined to name the senior member of the prime minister's circle.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#142
at least our local blue activists are not mad swivel-eyed loons.
Keith Sansum1
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#143
Labour of old always used to suffer from someone like dennis skinner or tony benn, who just before election day would make a maverick statement and labour would lose the election.
We now see the mouse cant keep his lot in order and they are falling apart in so many directions
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#144
we dont want to vote on that howard lol
some didnt vote for the guy second on the right lol
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#145
The `get rid of Flashman`queue is growing by the day......................
Tory party out of control over Europe, says Lord Howe
Former chancellor launches scathing attack on David Cameron and says Euroscepticism is
'infecting party soul'
Lord Howe has accused David Cameron of running scared of his backbenchers and endangering
Britain's future in Europe.
Lord Howe, the former Conservative chancellor who triggered the downfall of Margaret Thatcher,
has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister, accusing him of running scared of his
backbenchers and endangering Britain's future in Europe.
The Tory grandee says David Cameron has opened a Pandora's box by opposing the current
terms of the UK's membership of the European Union and now appears to be losing control of his party
. The prime minister's actions, Howe writes in the Observer, have turned an internal Tory problem into a
national one.
In a highly significant intervention over Britain's future, Howe laments the "new, almost farcical" level of
debate over Europe in the Tory party, and says that Labour and the Liberal Democrats may need to
bear the burden of retrieving the situation. Howe, Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet minister, whose
resignation speech in 1990 is widely considered to have precipitated the then prime minister's downfall,
writes: "Sadly, by making it clear in January that he opposes the current terms of UK membership
of the EU, the prime minister has opened a Pandora's box politically and seems to be
******* losing control of his party in the process*********.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#146
Lord Howe another one out of the box to pull down his own leader
the mouse wont be able to hold this all together
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#147
the same sex marriage thing is still rankling with the swivel eyed, sorry i meant rank and file activists.
Brian Dixon
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#148
its all going on howard,lots of in fighting and squabbles.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#149
just like labour of old,
will bring the govt down
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#150
funniest thing i heard today was jeremy hunt claiming the blues were united over europe, and there was me thinking that the golden age of comedy had died.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#151
Jeremy Hunt...the man who hides behind a tree when the going gets tough is a true Buffoon.
The whole interview was a desperate `brown tongue` defence of a man awaiting the night of the long knives........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#152
Has he not heard so many of his party dis unity
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#153
interesting to note that the french president has signed off the document to legalise same sex marriage, dave and him are poles apart politically but both know how to deflect attention from severe economic problems.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#154
Some of these issues may be minor to some
but major to others
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#155
Jeremy Hunt is not in ``touch` with his own party.....what chance the nation ?
Courtesy the BBC........................
Europe: Conservatives are united, says Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt told the BBC's Jeremy Vine the Tories were united over Europe .
The Conservative Party is united and David Cameron is showing leadership on Britain's relationship
with Europe, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
He told the BBC Tories were at one on the key issue - the need for change to ensure the UK remained competitive.
Tory grandee Lord Howe has accused the PM of "running scared" of Eurosceptics and losing control of the party.
Activists say the party is in "crisis" amid rows over gay marriage, Europe and a "disconnect" with the grassroots.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#156
Everyone else sees what is going on
the tories ripping themselves apart
tota;l disloyalty
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#157
David Cameron: I would never work with those who sneer at activists
Prime minister sends personal note to party members as senior figure claims he is 'worse than John Major'
David Cameron, who could face a confidence vote if the chairman of the Tory 1922 committee receives
enough letters demanding one.
David Cameron moved to repair relations with a bruised Conservative party by emailing a "personal note" to
all members in which he said he would never work with anyone who "sneered" at activists.
But senior figures indicated that the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee, Graham Brady
, was expected to receive further letters calling for a confidence vote. Brady, who is understood to have
been sent a limited number in recent months, will have to call a vote if he receives at least 46.
One senior figure said: "This is worse than John Major. There was quite a lot of sympathy for him
because of the Maastricht rebels. He also listened, though he probably listened too much.
With Cameron it feels like this could be terminal - and will be so before the election."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#158
46 letters is not many when you look across the country
The situation won't go away.
Ministers also coming out of the woodwork to be critical of the mouse
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#159
Another `U` turn............but this one is OK.................
Interpreters win right to live in UK
Six hundred Afghan interpreters are to be given the right to a new life in Britain after a climbdown
by the Government. Those who have worked alongside British troops on the front line for more than
12 months will be allowed to bring close family to the UK.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#160
interesting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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