Tag Archives: conservatives

Cuts and cat-fights

As I write, commentary on the ongoing Conservative Party conference is focused not on David Cameron’s ‘can-do optimism’, not on the news that effectively the wheels have fallen off George Osborne’s economic strategy, with the estimate for UK economic growth over April-June cut to 0.1%, and not even on the impending euro zone catastrophe. No, ...

Nice guy Dave?

Since he became prime minister, Gordon Brown’s standing in the polls has plummeted - but can that guy really be benefiting? James Turley looks at the Cameroons It is a good time, it seems, to be a Tory. The Conservative Party is consistently obliterating Labour in the opinion polls. Despite Gordon Brown’s ‘unifying’ speech at the latter ...

Tory ‘march on Rome’

First published in the Weekly Worker May 1st The Tories are a far bigger threat than BNP, says James Turley The numbers speak for themselves: across the country, 12 local councils have passed into the overall control of the Conservatives, who now hold 65 in total to Labour's 18. The Tories are the largest fraction (though nevertheless ...