By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the reasons why the Conservative Party had such good results in last year's local elections was that many extra Tory voters came out to vote in order to defeat AV. Additionally we had the centre right press all united in campaigning hard against a change to the electoral […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the list of reasons why the Conservatives didn't win the last election a top candidate was the election debates: "The massive audiences for the TV debates threatened to wipe out the advantage given to David Cameron by the support of key newspapers and by his Rolls Royce ground operation. […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter "The trade unions, over this Parliament, under a Conservative-led Government, will still receive more than £500 million pounds of taxpayers’ money." I'll repeat that: "The trade unions, over this Parliament, under a Conservative-led Government, will still receive more than £500 million pounds of taxpayers’ money." And we know where a […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In today's Times (£) I make the case for George Osborne to announce shock-and-awe economy-boosting tax cuts in the Budget. The economy needs them and I also suggest that the Tory Party needs them: "Ed Miliband is much closer to becoming Prime Minister than many Conservatives realise. It took the […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When Tory MPs are most depressed with the failings and compromises of coalition government they comfort themselves with the thought that it is hurting the Liberal Democrats much more than it is hurting Conservatives. The Lib Dems are the bindweed of British politics. Once they've invaded territory they are hard […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I hope you are enjoying this Building A Majority series. It's going to be an uphill struggle to govern on our own after the next election… but it's essential for what we want to achieve… and I believe it's perfectly achievable. After this week the series will take a short […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter There is a view among some Conservatives that Cameron plays into the hands of nationalists when he raises the possibility of further devolution. It's a view that Lord Forsyth espouses in today's Scotsman. In today's Guardian I explain why I disagree with Michael Forsyth and other "über-Unionists": "Cameron must again […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter It's been exactly one week since I urged David Cameron to drop the NHS Bill in what turned out to be the most-read post in the seven year history of ConHome. As I said in TV interviews at the time I didn't expect the PM to heed my advice and […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter In the first part of this series on Building A Majority I advocated recruiting more northern Tory candidates. Yesterday I recommended replacing the Barnett formula with a nationwide social justice fund. Today, windfarms. (3) NO MORE SUBSIDIES FOR WINDFARMS Two weeks ago more than 100 Tory MPs wrote to the […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Yesterday in the first part of this series on Building A Majority I advocated recruiting more northern Tory candidates. Today I turn to the Barnett formula. (2) A FAIRER WAY OF DISTRIBUTING TAXPAYERS' MONEY ACROSS THE UK One of the big themes of MajorityConservatism will be the need for a […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter When I launched Majority Conservatism I listed some of the reasons why winning the next election will be an uphill struggle for the Conservative Party. Two weeks ago I revealed that clouds of gloom had descended on Downing Street as Cameron's advisers struggled to identify a clear path to a […]