There is an "I" in Liberal after all!
Seems someone got round to fixing the little hiccup on the Lib Dem Yoof
Seems someone got round to fixing the little hiccup on the Lib Dem Yoof
Boris has today unveiled the new look Routemasters set to hit the streets in 2011:
Guido is
It has come to Tory Bear's attention that Gordon might have taken a lighthearted comic book a little too seriously. Back in June it seems that
Good to see that the leader of the free world isn't wasting the his last few days in power making stupid videos about dogs...
Oh wait:
Who the hell is Barney?
If you thought a couple of feminists throwing their toys out of the pram over the "Life's better under a conservative" poster campaign by YBF was funny, then check out what happened when an Italian student group stormed to victory with some seriously saucy posters...
The left are going crazy but hey it seems
The BBC really need to let their news videos be embedded like Sky do. However this video is well worth a
So it seems President Bush was
TB has just spent an amusing ten minutes checking out
Prime Minister | David Cameron (Con) | |
Deputy Prime Minister | Michael Howard (Con) | |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | William Hague (Con) | |
Foreign Secretary | Liam Fox (Con) | |
Work & Pensions Secretary | Frank Field (Lab) | |
Enviroment, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary | John Gummer (Con) | |
Defence Secretary | Douglas Carswell (Con) | |
Leader of the House of Commons | Theresa May (Con) | |
Health Secretary | Greg Clark (Con) | |
Culture, Media & Sport Secretary | Jeremy Hunt (Con) | |
Chief Whip | Patrick McLoughlin (Con) | |
Home Secretary | David Davis (Con) | |
Minister without Portfolio & Party Chair | George Osborne (Con) | |
Lord Chancellor | Patrick Cormack (Con) | |
Minister for Children, Schools and Families | Michael Gove (Con) | |
International Development Secretary | Justine Greening (Con) | |
Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) | Kenneth Clarke (Con) | |
Innovation, Universities and Skills Secretary | David Davies (Con) | |
Minister of Communities & Local Goverment | Eric Pickles (Con) | |
Chief Secretary to the Treasury | Vincent Cable (LDem) | |
Attorney General | Dominic Grieve (Con) | |
Minister for Europe in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office | Chris Grayling (Con) |
Further to the post yesterday about Rahm Emanuel and the Obama Senate seat scandal, it has
Following the success of the Free Damian Green t-shirts, that according to the Daily Express were seen being sported by researchers around the Parliamentry estate, TB has a new design up for grabs...
Check it outSeems Home Information Packs are for the masses but not for the government.
Won't make the same awful pun the
The story of Chigago's Governor attempting to sell Obama's former Senate seat is getting
Over the last 72 hours Tory Bear hasn't been giving this blog his full attention as he has been locked in the library preparing for exams next week. He sadly hasn't had the time to report on the many Christmas parties he has been missing out on, though
TB has just received a very slick press release from London Conservative Future. Clare Hilley has called for London members to launch a blue revolution in the capital. The news comes as Miss Hilley, 24, was appointed regional coordinator for London with responsibility for encouraging activists, coordinating campaigns and attracting new members.
Wow that story just wrote itself!
UPDATE 17.10: Check out the slick new video released onto facebook earlier this afternoon:
Now Tory Bear can't help feel that
Thank you to the person who highlighted this
Tory Bear was rather ironically left speechless when he
Excellent idea from
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Iain Dale tonight has the
Word is reaching Tory Bear from Birmingham that Caroline Spelman has today pulled out of an event at the city branch, with just three days notice. What could be the problem?
Offcially the creation of the new Regional Coordinators is a landmark in "the development of Conservative Future, which will deliver a far more responsive structure for all CF members.
We are Conservatives and localism is a key part of our ideology. The appointment of Regional Chairmen is key to this change. These people will work to improve the organisation in their regions, focusing on local branches and local activities."
However it seems this email shows just how difficult this interim period of introducing the RC's nationwide will be. It came late last night from a member who wishes to remain anonymous:
"I may have slipped into a coma at some point, but what exactly are these regional coordinators going to do differently to what was in place before? I'd get the odd hurried message from the area chairman (Chairperson?) organising at the last minute a canvasing day through Facebook on the opposite side of the county and watch as he got narked that noone turned up. Will this new system be any different? Have we found the silver bullet?
I'm also rather surprised as to it being one person's job to coordinate activities over such a geographically vast area like the North West, North East, North Wales (which I grew up in), and South Wales. Transport at county level in quite an ordeal over this way (it takes twice as long for example to go from Holyhead to Aberystwyth than it does from Holyhead to Chester, and that's assuming you go by car, don't whatever you do mention trains). Will the general membership be expected to pay for these new RCs to travel from one end of their areas to another to coordinate us? Or will the RCs be expected to pay for it themselves?
I suspect in the end that the whole thing will end up as a Facebook group, with some hastily arranged event thrown up every now and again when one of the RCs gets picked up on for having done nothing on sites such as yours.
I don't really know what the answer is tbh, and I'm not privy to the NME thinking behind this decision. It strikes me as being another "bright idea" from London, but that could be that northern chip on my shoulder. Perhaps it would have been better to have instituted a mechanism to hold ACs and NME members to account? I know, I know, a pipe dream...
The overall impression I get is that this just gives credence to Sir Humphrey's line "politicians like activity, it's their substitute for achievement". We'll no doubt are a flurry of activity to begin with, followed by the inevitable slide back to where we are bow, carrying on as if nothing has changed.
Which I suppose it hasn't, if you think about it."
We shall see eh?
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