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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
I'll link to David Maclean's speech when it appears online. Until then you'll just have to take my word for it that the former Tory chief whip has hit out at Tory MPs and media commentators for bad-mouthing the Speaker. Maclean also went out of his way to criticise the handful of Tory MPs who are clearly pursuing a vendetta against Michael Martin. Presumably that includes Tory oddball Douglas Carswell,...
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The Rouseabout (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I’m breaking blog hibernation for a moment to join the growing list of people displaying a Green Ribbon to condemn the recent police action against Damian Green. For background on this development please see a handy Q&A put out by the BBC. Douglas Carswell MP is calling for the Speaker to resign after he let police [...]
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Spin and Spinners (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Linking the cabinet minutes and the Damian Green case is the involvement of the Cabinet Office, who obviously see it as their main job to stop information that will damage the government getting into the public domain. Meanwhile, Douglas Carswell MP blames Commons speaker Michael Martin for allowing Green's office to be searched and says he will call for him to go.
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Douglas Carswell MP for Harwich and Clacton had the keen sense to telephone the Speaker's office to find out if Mr Martin sanctioned the raid on the offices of Damian Green MP in the House of Commons yesterday. He says he was told "there is a process to be followed that was followed". Naturally and sensibly he takes that as a yes. As he points out , the unprecendented raid by Anti-terror police
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
"I'm number 9 on the list of MPs to ask the Prime Minister a question this morning. It could be that the half hour session is up before it's my turn. But if not, - and in the interests of a little direct democracy - what question should I put to him?"
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Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Douglas Carswell is number 9 in the queue today, he may get a chance to ask, he may not. However, in the interests of direct democracy, he is offering the opportunity to have your question asked if it's a good one. Try him in the House or in the home .
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Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
I'm intrigued by an item on Douglas Carswell's lively blog in which he reports that the Commons authorities prevented him from using a photograph of the Speaker in his constituency newsletter. It's the latest twist in the row over the...
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First Drafts (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
In our latest lead review, Daily Mail political columnist Peter Oborne takes a second look at Dylan Jones’s much-maligned book of interviews with the Tory leader, Cameron on Cameron, and at Douglas Carswell & Daniel Hannan’s manifesto for Cameron’s Tories, The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain. The Cameron that emerges from Oborne’s reading is [...]
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Make My Vote Count (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
This report of the CAER / ERS fringe at Conservative party conference got lost amidst the files on my computer but, even if slightly belatedly, deserves to be published. For at the meeting a true, and blue, electoral reformer emerged;...
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UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Douglas Carswell MP has been reading our manifesto again (good man). Speaking in parliament : That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the replacement of police authorities with elected justice commissioners; to make provisions regarding the duties and powers of justice commissioners; and for connected purposes... Let us imagine that local people, not Home Office officials, determined...
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Raedwald (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
A couple of months ago Team Cameron didn't have to try too hard; they just had to be Not Gordon. Cameron himself let slip a few 'when we form a government' and 'our government' type nostrums. There was something rather irritating about this. He'd dismissed Dan Hannan and Douglas Carswell's 'Plan' as being nowhere on his agenda, and made clear he was following a strategy of, erm, Not Being Gordon. And...
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Adam Smith Institute Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
A few weeks ago I attended the launch of The Plan: twelve months to RENEW BRITAIN , the new book by Douglas Carswell and Daniel Hannan. I've had the chance to read it now, and I can confirm that it's excellent stuff. Hannan and Carswell (an MEP and an MP respectively) are the driving force behind Direct Democracy , a group set up in the aftermath of the Conservatives' 2005 general election defeat...
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Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
Douglas Carswell MP and Daniel Hannan MEP are comrades-in-arms. I had the pleasure of sitting with both in the heady days of the now defunct National Association of Conservative Graduates. Those seeking to discover the existence of a vast right-wing conspiracy ought to turn their attention to the NACG - no wonder CCO merged the Gradudates together with the YCs and Conservative Students..! Carswell...
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Telegraph Blogs - Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Suddenly everyone's at it. When I came out as an Obamacon - a conservative who supports Barack Obama - I was a lonely scout, picking my way across the empty veldt. Now, the grasslands are thrumming with the hooves of a mighty herd of Tory wildebeest: Simon Burns, Richard Spring, Douglas Carswell, Iain Dale - an...
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The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
Here is a piece by my co-author , Douglas Carswell, on the Guardian's Comment is Free . I'd be interested in your thoughts, whether you're on the Left or the Right. The proudest boast of the British Left is that it took power away from the elites and dispersed it among the people...
