howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bit of an improvement on iraq when interpreters who had been told that they would get protection were left behind when our troops pulled out.
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David Cameron stands firm on EU referendum date
Prime minister rejects calls from Eurosceptics to hold vote before planned date of 2017, or even to hold two votes
David Cameron vowed that the coalition would last the full five-year term. Photograph: Isopix/Rex Features
David Cameron has issued a blunt warning to Conservative Eurosceptics that his "very clear, very decisive policy"
to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership by the end of 2017 is not up for renegotiation.
In an attempt to draw a line under a bumpy few weeks in which Eurosceptics demanded a toughening of his
policy and Tory traditionalists criticised him for pressing ahead with a gay marriage bill, the prime minister
said he would stand firm.
But Cameron, who spoke of his pride in legalising gay marriage, tried to reach out to the right by saying he
would now focus on the "big picture" issues of the economy rather than social issues.
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Why did Labour choose this policy to save Cameron ?????
Gay marriage opponents warn David Cameron of 'long battle' ahead for Bill to become law
PM promises Tory MPs to avoid any more divisive social issues
Opponents of gay marriage warned of a "long, protracted battle" ahead as they prepare for a last-ditch
attempt by peers to scupper the plans.
The proposals move to the Lords next month after being approved by MPs by a large majority despite
the opposition of 130 Tories.
Sixty-five peers have already signed up to speak on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) when it receives
its second reading in the Lords on June 3 and many more are expected to follow suit.
The number, and the fact the Government has only allocated one debate to the subject, means the debate
is set to drag on into the small hours. That raises the possibility of opponents attempting an ambush
when the Lords is thinly-populated.
Lord Tebbit, the former Tory chairman and an outspoken critic of the plans, is among several ex-ministers
who have applied to speak.
The Coalition for Marriage, which is leading resistance to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill,
accused David Cameron of being a "marriage wrecker".
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Dont think it will save the mouse
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The rumbles are not just in the shires..............
Not just a bunch of 'swivel-eyed' idiots: The true Tories who want a new direction
Deep in Tory heartland, Simon Usborne discovers party activists are not happy with their leader,
his friends or his policies
There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire,
in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map
. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did
not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in Shefford."
The 13th-century market town, floating in a political sea of blue between Luton and Bedford, ought
, therefore, to be a stronghold for the country's newest demographic: the "swivel-eyed loon", the term
allegedly used by the Tory Party chairman, Lord Feldman, to refer to Conservative party activists
in places just like this.
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Warnings over flagship government projects
The decision to award the £5bn West Coast Main Line franchise - currently run by Virgin -
to FirstGroup was scrapped
Fighter U-turn 'cost taxpayers £74m Whitehall saving plan 'overspent Rail fiasco 'to cost at least £50m'
More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including Universal Credit and high-speed rail, are at
serious risk of failure, a report says.
The government's Major Projects Authority (MPA) has given 32 schemes a red or amber/red rating
, meaning they are deemed unachievable or in doubt.
Red projects include two £7bn aircraft carriers dogged by delays, and a new passport applications system.
The Cabinet Office welcomed the report and said it would lead to improvements.
The MPA was established in 2010 with the aim of turning around the civil service's "lamentable record"
of delivering large schemes.
It is currently monitoring the status of projects worth £350bn and has assessed how likely they are to
meet their time, cost and quality targets.
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Peers plot gay marriage revolt
Lords from all main political parties will unite next week in a last-ditch attempt to block the
Government's introduction of gay marriage.
The House of Lords will debate the same sex marriage bill next week.
Peers expect the Upper's House debate over same sex weddings will go through the night or
even into a second day, with a key vote that could scupper the policy regarded as "too close to call".
The former head of the British army Lord Dannatt and Lord Lothian, a former Conservative Party chairman
better known as Michael Ancram, are amongst those set to criticise the draft legislation in next Monday's
session.
Other opponents will include Lord Waddington, a former Home Secretary, Lord Luce, who served as a
minister in Baroness Thatcher's government, and Lord Singh of Wimbledon, a respected figure in the Sikh
community.
The Sunday Telegraph has also established that the senior Tory Baroness Warsi, a practising Muslim,
refused to lead the bill through the House of Lords when asked to do so by David Cameron, the Prime Minister.
Some peers believe dozens Lords who rarely attend Parliament will flock to Westminster to make their position on
homosexual marriage clear.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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If we pull our soldiers out of Afghanistan now, then no Afghan interpreter will be eligible to move to the UK with their extended family.
Practically, the only reason British soldiers are in Afghanistan now, is so that 600 Afghan clans can immigrate into Britain.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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so you think alex,what you saying boils down to scaremongering and zenophobia.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It's neither scaremongering nor xenophobia, Brian.
Each of the 600 families would have perhaps 10 children, and then each of these 10 children.
The first 600 for free council houses would soon become 6,000.
One day we would become Afghanistan and wouldn't need to send our soldiers there.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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any way our boys are pulling out in the next 18 months,so not to worried about it.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Alexander stop exaggerating or should I say scaremongering the vast majority of foreigners who settle here have the same number of children as the rest of us.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Guardian........precis rvh.............
Cameron leadership at stake if Tories lose European elections, says ex-whip
David Cameron has been warned that losing the European parliamentary elections May could
unsettle Tory MPs in marginal seats.
A senior Tory has warned that David Cameron's leadership would be at stake if the Conservative party
loses next year's European parliamentary elections, something most polls, political betting sites and
the Ukip have said was likely to happen.
The warning that the European elections could prove to be a flashpoint for Cameron's premiership was
made by David Ruffley, a member of the home affairs select committee and a former Tory whip.
He said MPs in marginal seats would be unsettled if the prime minister had failed to turn around the
party's fortunes at the ballot box next year.
Ruffley told Sky's Murnaghan programme: "I think next May's Euro elections might put pressure on him
to go harder because there is a lot of speculation in and around Downing Street, so I am led to believe,
that Ukip might come first.
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Courtesy The Times........rvhised
Theresa May has a penchant for Flashman shoes........while the cat`s at home !!!!!!!!!!!
May sparks row with call to revive snoopers' bill
The Home Secretary provoked a fierce row yesterday when she demanded the revival of the
"snooper's charter" after the terrorist attack last Wednesday in Woolwich. Theresa May, setting out
measures to counter extremism, said it was "essential" that police and intelligence agencies were
allowed to track who speaks to whom on the internet. Security chiefs backed Mrs May, lining up to
call for the revival of the Communications Data Bill, which was dropped from the Queen's Speech
at the start of this month after being vetoed by Nick Clegg. But the Liberal Democrats, civil liberties
groups and Britain's leading Muslim organisation warned against a "knee-jerk" reaction to the killing
of Drummer Lee Rigby. Mrs May suggested that ministers could also impose new controls on satellite
channels and groups that propagate extremist messages as she warned that thousands of Britons
could be vulnerable to radicalisation.......
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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there is a real issue on this
how do you keep ahead of the organised terrorist?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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theres an old saying.
keep your friends close
but keep your enimies closer.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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thats correct brian
but often you dont know the enemy lol
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Courtesy Independent...........................
Benefits crackdown 'humiliates' disabled Army war veterans
Degrading back-to-work welfare assessments that are stripping former soldiers of their benefits
have been denounced by leading veterans' charities.
Thousands of ex-servicemen are being pushed to the breadline after being judged fit for work by
the government-appointed company Atos. Severely wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan,
who were once entitled to incapacity benefits, are being told they no longer qualify under new
assessments carried out by Atos on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Danny Greeno, chief executive of the Veterans Charity, said: "It is becoming an unbearable situation.
It should not be happening to people who have served their country. The people doing these
assessments need to be properly qualified."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Appears to be something wrong here
im sure theres not many on here who would support such a move
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Courtesy The Times ..........rvhised....
Boris wants Flashman to ``fail miserably``so he can ride to the rescue..............
Boris would like to see Cameron `fail miserably`at the next election so he can ride in on his bike
to save party and country claims Andy Coulson former spin doctor to his `friend`the PM.
