Topic ID 2435
Just seen this new website, if anyone wants to send a question to the local Tories you can do it from here: http://www.easthertsconservatives.co.uk/
Reply ID 34167
quote:Sending a question, getting an answer od some sense - 2 different subjects
Originally posted by ridley
Just seen this new website, if anyone wants to send a question to the local Tories you can do it from here: http://www.easthertsconservatives.co.uk/
Reply ID 34171
This was a message from David Cameron on that website: Responsibility for our neighbours, for our country and for the planet is the job of every one of us, not just the government. For politicians, social responsibility means putting trust in people themselves, and in the institutions and associations that they form." Emphasising his belief in "big citizens" and a "limited state", Mr Cameron went on: "I want to roll forward the frontiers of society. And there's an important difference. By putting the emphasis on a larger society, rather than a smaller state, we are returning to a richer Conservatism, one that reconnects us with the aspirations and the problems of the British public." He said: "It's a very good way of approaching every decision. It will completely change the terms of debate in Whitehall. Rather than thinking, in every instance, what can the state do about this or that issue, we'll be thinking, what can society do? "Rather than approaching every issue with an open chequebook from the taxpayer and a new regulation, we'll approach every issue with the expectation that, in the first instance at least, responsibility lies with the people. "The key is cultural change. When people realise that the system will help them rather than get in their way when they try to make a difference in their community - then imagine what a flowering of enterprise and commitment and innovation we will see." Is this not something we know already?
Reply ID 34186
I feel empowered.... Empowered in a way that my Socialist Worker/Militant Tendancy background could never have hoped to muster.
Reply ID 34190
quote:Isn't that a contradictory statement?
Originally posted by James007
"Rather than approaching every issue with an open chequebook from the taxpayer and a new regulation, we'll approach every issue with the expectation that, in the first instance at least, responsibility lies with the people.
quote:Mmmm, yes. Bring on that Mileage Charging! Yeehaa! Let's see how much commitment to the difference THAT will bring! Innovation: yes indeedy. In the form of how to get fired so we can all go on benefits. There are other ways to bring about cultural change without screwing us into financial oblivion! <wanders off, ranting into the sunset> [:)]
"The key is cultural change. When people realise that the system will help them rather than get in their way when they try to make a difference in their community - then imagine what a flowering of enterprise and commitment and innovation we will see."
Reply ID 34200
How easy is it to get the ear of your councillor? For all my spew and gnashing, it almost never occurs to me to resort to statutory rights. It feels better to bark at the telly (get Sky+ and you can rewind the telly and perfect your shoutiness - oh yeah, video does that too). Incidentally, has anybody else here gone through the Special Branch security clearance procedure? I personally was deemed 'let him in the building-able' and I ended up worked in the Treasury and the Bank of England!! Outrageous - I'm a really unpredicatable fellow yet I got to sit on the Bank Governor's chair.. I pushed the button for a 25% base bank lending rate (I was in a long GBPUSD position at the time). The button turned out to be a bell and all I got was peppermint tea. Still the economy was bouyant as a result.
Reply ID 34208
quote:Ever heard the phrase "Keep your friends close but you enemies closer"? (Or was it enemas?).
Originally posted by Herbert Lemons Incidentally, has anybody else here gone through the Special Branch security clearance procedure? I personally was deemed 'let him in the building-able' and I ended up worked in the Treasury and the Bank of England!! Outrageous - I'm a really unpredicatable fellow yet I got to sit on the Bank Governor's chair.. I pushed the button for a 25% base bank lending rate (I was in a long GBPUSD position at the time). The button turned out to be a bell and all I got was peppermint tea. Still the economy was bouyant as a result.
Reply ID 34224
I've heard something like this before: And so, my fellow [Conservatives]: ask not what your count[r]y can do for you — ask what you can do for your count[r]y. Stirring stuff.
Reply ID 34359
quote:Whoah! Mrs T would turn in her grave (if she were, indeed, in her grave)......I thought there was "no such thing as society" under the Conservatives???
Originally posted by James007
This was a message from David Cameron on that website: Mr Cameron went on: "I want to roll forward the frontiers of society. And there's an important difference. By putting the emphasis on a larger society, rather than a smaller state, we are returning to a richer Conservatism, one that reconnects us with the aspirations and the problems of the British public."
Reply ID 34382
quote:They haven't built the dancefloor yet. It's a big job...[;)]
Originally posted by Trisha
Mrs T would turn in her grave (if she were, indeed, in her grave)
Reply ID 34388
quote:I've heard a good one too - "In order to stab your enemy in the back, you first have to be behind them"!!!!!
Originally posted by nora batty Ever heard the phrase "Keep your friends close but you enemies closer"? (Or was it enemas?).