Conservative MP Brooks Newmark has got himself into trouble with the leftist political activists who dominate Britain’s charities sector by telling them to “stick to their knitting” and stay out of politics. Problem is, in the case of many charities
With sterling tumbling at the start of the week, in response to an opinion poll showing support for Scottish independence 2 points in the lead, and the FTSE 100 declining by 0.3 per cent, £3.5bn was knocked off the market
Cameron’s Conservative Party should ditch “leftie nonsense” according to research by the opinion pollsters ComRes. The poll says traditionally Thatcherite policies like caps in immigration would prove popular with voters. In recent years the Conservatives have haemorrhaged support from traditional voters
Dozens of former Conservative voters in Clacton have told local campaigners that they will be voting for UKIP’s Douglas Carswell specifically following an article in The Times newspaper by former Conservative MP Matthew Parris. The article, published last week, was
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP isn’t listening. I told him before the European elections there would be no pact with the Conservatives but still he pushes for one, yesterday upping the stakes by suggesting UKIP could be given two Cabinet positions in
Conservative Members of Parliament are apparently demanding that Prime Minister David Cameron begin to consider an electoral pact with Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party, with some even contending that he should become Deputy Prime Minister next year. Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
Parts of Scotland are ‘getting like Northern Ireland’ as English residents are intimidated, abused, and subjected to violence as the independence referendum comes to its final twelve days and separatist rhetoric reaches fever-pitch. A report by the Daily Mail adds
NEW YORK, United States – Breitbart London can exclusively reveal that UKIP leader Nigel Farage and News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch met in private this week, following hotly on the heels of Douglas Carswell MP’s defection away from the Conservative
In Rotherham, evidence of organised child abuse by Muslim gangs is deliberately ignored by Labour authorities and the police, resulting in more than 1,400 victims over a sixteen year period. In Ferguson, Missouri, the police shooting of a young black
It has scarcely been a week since former Tory MP Douglas Carswell jumped ship to UKIP, but Britain’s entrenched political classes have already turned on him – and in one of the nastiness ways you can imagine. Carswell, who is
Between 1707 and about the mid-1930s, Great Britain was the most successful and important nation in the world. In a fortnight, it may no longer exist. Until last month, that was unthinkable. Now it may even be likely. What the
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been making bold, statesman-like noises about Islamic State and President Putin this week. Well, of course he has. It’s what desperate leaders always do when their domestic policies and popularity ratings are tanking. Unfortunately,
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) reminded me of an eat-as-much-as-you-like curry buffet: there’s loads to choose from but its all crap. Talk of ISIS was filled with so much regret, so much anger and no desire to do anything to
With the first Tory MP having defected to UKIP in Douglas Carswell and many others now bailing out of the 2015 fight altogether, the Conservative Party appears to increasingly resemble a nervous wreck and David Cameron seems to be losing
It is difficult to envy David Cameron. The first prime minister in recent memory to suffer the ignominy of governing in coalition, Cameron’s chance of achieving a Conservative majority at the second time of asking are almost nil. The odds
It is often said, because it is true, that what happens in North America politically and economically is a precursor to what will happen in Britain. Conservatism is undergoing a global reawakening after two decades asleep to the scourge of
Eurosceptic Conservative Party Member of Parliament Chris Kelly is to stand down in 2015, following rumours that he might have been the next MP to defect to UKIP after Douglas Carswell’s crossing of the floor earlier this week. Kelly, who
Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) has stormed into the lead in the British parliamentary constituency of Clacton – an area which will play host to a by-election soon following the defection and resignation of the sitting Member of Parliament
Quite recently the Conservative Party tried to bully the head of the oldest (small-c) conservative think-tank in the country by sending a legal letter to its chairman. Benjamin Harris-Quinney was told by Conservative HQ’s hired goons that he was attempting
Editors Note: From The Mail on Sunday. UKIP are set to win their first Commons seat with a landslide 64 per cent of the vote following the biggest swing in modern political history. Turncoat MP Douglas Carswell is set to
A Conservative councillor has become the first to follow MP Douglas Carswell in joining UKIP. Councillor Chris Neal, who serves on Sevenoaks District Council, joined the anti-EU party today, saying that the Conservatives “no longer have the interests of ordinary
Douglas Carswell has joined UKIP. About bloody time; this is a long awaited move. Carswell has been in closer political alignment to UKIP than to the Conservatives for years; on Europe, on climate change, on localism, on restoring public faith
Earlier today my colleague Andre Walker wrote about how the Conservative Party were hot on the heels of their latest defector Douglas Carswell MP, who joined UKIP earlier today. Walker noted: After the Carswell defection UKIP leader Nigel Farage headed
