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Posts Tagged: Douglas Carswell

Farage returns to a favourite game – winding up Tory MPs and flying them like a kite. Or trying to.

His best hope of success in British politics is to boost his chances in elections by dividing the Conservatives and plundering their vote.

By Paul Goodman | 2 November 2020 | 88 comments

Mark Wallace: How Eurosceptics survived the wilderness years, and returned to win the day

The second piece in our mini-series on the road to Brexit explores the challenges which the anti-EU movement overcame to survive and then thrive.

By Mark Wallace | 29 January 2020 | 84 comments

Daniel Hannan: Better to select the Tory leader like the Dalai Lama than elect him in this preposterous way

I just can’t see how parliamentary sovereignty is compatible with a potential Prime Minister being nominated by an extra-parliamentary body.

By Daniel Hannan | 12 June 2019 | 88 comments

Daniel Hannan: That Brexit film works as drama. But it doesn’t as history. I should know. I was there.

The real flaw in Graham’s film was the implication that Vote Leave won by turning the European question into something else.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 9 January 2019 | 31 comments

Brexit: The Uncivil War. Graham gives us Cummings Agonistes – and a Tory work of art.

The noise that he picks up, with an almost clairvoyant sense, is not that of a queue waiting to vote but of a mob pitching the mighty from their seats.

By Paul Goodman | 8 January 2019 | 75 comments

CCHQ encourages applicants to be Police and Crime Commissioner candidates

The deadline is August 6th. While the role has yet to capture the public’s imagination, it has genuine power.

By Harry Phibbs | 26 July 2018 | 17 comments

Having confidence in leaving the Customs Union

May should not shirk from seeking an election over her manifesto pledge to leave it. But we are not there yet – not nearly.

By Paul Goodman | 25 February 2018 | 298 comments

Daniel Hannan: Leave.EU and Arron Banks – the Brexiteers that the Remain campaign loved

And here’s the thing: Banks knew it. Farage knew it. But they didn’t care. Their primary objective was to be seen to lead the campaign, not to win it.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 23 November 2017 | 248 comments

Battleground Seats 11) East of England

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

By Henry Hill | 5 June 2017 | 3 comments

How Twitter enabled a tawdry oaf to become President

In his new book, Peter Oborne interprets a collection of the outrageous Tweets which carried Trump to high office.

By Andrew Gimson | 27 May 2017 | 20 comments

ConHome/Taxpayers’ Alliance Conference sketch: Exit Douglas Carswell, pursued by a bear

At our Post-Election Conference, UKIP’s only MP was put on the spot, and others were applauded as they outlined great things which can now be achieved.

By Andrew Gimson | 12 May 2015 | 35 comments

Heresy of the week: Political correctness has nothing to do with politeness

For the politically correct left, free speech is a zero sum game, for some people to find their voice, others must be silenced.

By Peter Franklin | 6 February 2015 | 17 comments

Will UKIP actually change anything?

UKIP is, in both form and function a conventional political party

By Peter Franklin | 24 November 2014 | 38 comments

WATCH: Douglas Carswell gives his victory speech

“Croney corporatism is not the free market. Cosy cartel politics is not democracy. Change is coming.”

10 October 2014 | 18 comments

The Conservatives have a good chance of winning Rochester and Strood

Mark Reckless, the UKIP candidate in Rochester, is nothing like as popular as Douglas Carswell is in Clacton.

By Andrew Gimson | 8 October 2014 | 116 comments

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