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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | yesterday
In all my 49 years as an office holder in the Conservative Party I have never known a Government in this country subvert the organs of state to the wellbeing and objectives of a given party as this Government has. It all started when Blair brought together the terrible twins, Campbell and Mandelson, and thereafter announced [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
On Monday I watched the Chancellor commit this country to a debt scenario which was truly shocking. Old Labour is back with a vengeance; taxing, spending and borrowing. The revenue shortfall in next year’s budget totals £72 billon and borrowing now stands at a trillion. I don’t know about you, but I can’t envisage a trillion. However, [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The Prime Minister drones on about the support his Government is giving to small business yet the banks are still charging 8% and 9% above base, are shortening the agreed periods for overdraft, are increasing the charge for negotiating those overdrafts and forcing many small business owners to put their houses on the line by [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
After months of pressure from hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country, thousands of sub-postmasters, hundreds of organisations and the total membership of the DBERR Select Committee, the Government has given in to pressure and announced that it will reward the contract to the Post Office… so said James Purnell at lunch [...]
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Cranmer (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Cranmer is a little intrigued to read that Conservative MP Brian Binley has had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. Mr Binley is not Roman Catholic, and describes himself as an ‘irregular church goer’. He is, however, a Freemason and a member of Cornerstone . One must surmise that he values the Christian foundations of his party’s philosophy and the nation’s history. But Cranmer is even more intrigued...
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Our town and city centres lie at the heart of our communities and are as vital to their health as the heart is to the body. Yet over the last thirty years or so, the centres of many of our communities have suffered a gradual but persistent decline. Ring roads have isolated them, parking charges [...]
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Lynne's Parliament and Haringey dia (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Quick link to the Daily Mirror who have got a story about a Conservative MP criticising plans for flexi-working to help parents: A Tory MP provoked fury yesterday by claiming that parents will use flexi-time working as an excuse to shirk. Brian Binley was responding to hints from Gordon Brown that Labour could offer more flexible working rights to parents of children up to the age of 16. [Lynne Featherstone...
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Gordon Brown needs the Unions financial support and of course the Unions are demanding a price. So what does he do?? He tries to look hard by rejecting their demands to reintroduce secondary picketing rights but says he will push ahead with more family friendly flexible working practices. Sounds good when you first read it but you [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Can you imagine any Government believing that a kebab shop should be set up in the Arctic? Of course you cant. They would turn it down out of hand! But that is exactly what an enterprising middle aged Iranian achieved. Mr Kazem Ariaiwand moved to Spitsbergen after a failed asylum attempt in Norway some five years ago [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
I am a Unionist. I really am. But I recognise how much damage Tony Blair did to the United Kingdom when he foolishly legislated for devolution for short term political gain. Now I would like to turn the clock back but we have to recognise that the damage has been done and we have to move [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Can you believe that Mr Adam Applegarth, the recently retired Chief Executive of Northern Rock, was rewarded with a payment of £785,000 for one of the worst bank failures in the modern history of banking. Can you believe that Mr Peter Gould, who left the employ of Northamptonshire County Council after seven years of achieving little [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
I broke the law on Friday and again on Sunday. Well that’s not quite true. The law I refer to does not come into effect until next Sunday. But be assured that I will break the law again. And what is this law which motivates such potential and laudable martyrdom? Addressing the girl behind the bar [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Salamalikom to you all but especially to those in Ashraf City I want to strongly condemn the 8 February 2008 bombing of the water pumping station to Ashraf City, Iraq, where the PMOI are situated. This terrorist action was carried out by the agents of the Iranian regime’s Kudz (Qods) Force. On 6 March, Jean Ziegler, [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
When introducing Home Information Packs (HIPS) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, under John Prescott's control stated that the aim was to “ensure the home buying and selling process becomes more certain, transparent and consumer friendly, whilst reducing stress and the number of failed transactions. Fine sounding words but figures released last week prove what [...]
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The Cornerstone Group (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
Many of Britain's town centres are in decline. When I visit my own home town of Northampton I am struck by the difference to the thriving shoe-making centre I used to see. But across the country the numbers of shoppers are decreasing, put off by a combination of crime and poor planning policies that are rendering [...]
