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The hip new Conservatives?

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UPDATE: The video has now been removed from YouTube due to a complaint from ConservativeFuture. They claim a copyright infringement, but Don't Panic Media - who made the film - still have it up on the right of their website here. It's a must see!

This is a really well put together, independent must-see video in which a reporter from Don't Panic Media spends a day with Conservative Future members. Balanced and fair, it shows - especially towards the end - how little Conservative views have changed, in spite of Phillip Blond's Red Toryism and Cameron's so-called "compassionate Conservatives" and in spite of a set of trendy young cheerleaders.

Posted on Jun 25, 2009 at 11:43am


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They look, sound, and act like the same hurrah henries that were in the Young Conservatives when I was a student in 1983. I honestly cannot see any difference.
Richard Blogger @ 57 weeks ago
Just goes to show there is youthful exuberance on both sides.

I don’t understand why this gets posted up. Is it reflective of anything? Alex are you short of material again?
bbJ - Posting like Mr Kipling... exceedingly good stuff. @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
what do you think LL should be discussing instead?
ash cash @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Best bit is the claim that Boris Johnson is the new Che Guevara...
David H @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Well, the things we do in our youth and later regret in life. Their hearts are in the right place but wisdom only comes with age.

As for the laughter from the left... well, Labour's so-called masters and elders were mostly all members of the Communist party in their youth; there have been many Cabinet ministers who were at some point members of the Communist Party. Jack Straw, Peter Mandelson for example.

At a time when the Communists were killing thousands to suppress democracy in Eastern Europe as well.

These guys are totally harmless in comparison.
a b @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Well, well, well. Obnoxious young Tories acting like obnoxious young Tories always have.
And what do bears do in woods?


Tom Sacold @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
I found the people in that video so hideously ill-informed and immature, ridiculously out-of-place and catastrophically embarrassing, it made me want to furiously demand for the ground to apocalyptically open up and engulf me with the volcanic flames of hell, in the hope that I might be ferried across the Atlantic by a flock of stray magic turtles and arrive safely at an Obama-supportive district of New York. Apart from that Conservative Future looks good.
Gabe Trodd @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Removed by CF London! Scared of the truth, the cowards, bunch of litigious stuck-up t*****s.

The beauty of the internet is that nothing vanishes forever; you can still view it here

Watch it, and you'll see some plummy bint tell us that "the sun is cooling" and that "global warming is a myth"!

Bright new modern forward-thinking Conservative party? Pull the other one!

And you gotta wonder how a bunch of students and young people can afford to hold a knees-up at The Old Bank of England; been there once, cost me £7.85 for a round - of two, yes TWO pints!!
Shamik Das @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Thanks for the link Shamik, they just don't get the internet these right wingers ;)
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Care to take up your anger over climate change deniers with the labour supporters who after the IPCC report were saying they weren't convinced?

"plummy bint"?

What if someone calls you an ill educated, badly spoken oick from the working classes? Is that ok?

Or perhaps with your name the BNP could adopt the usual line and accuse you of being a benefit cheating islamic terrorist? Is that ok with you?

Is dropping to those levels and the one of using "plummy bint" the approach of the "bright new modern forward-thinking" Labour party?

As for the old Bank of England pub. I worked on Chancery Lane for some time and the Bank, along with the Knight Templar, was a regular lunchtime and after work venue. Funnily enough it always seemed to be packed with people drinking those near £4 pints.

Perhaps I could drop to your stereotypical level and suggest you go get a job? Then you could afford a drink or two?

By the way I've never been to a "knees-up", is it some sort of coal miners ritual or maybe an initiation right for the local union? See what I did there, did you like it as much as the young lady would like being referred to as a "plummy bint"?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
The classic response of someone who's got nothing to say; how sad, how pathetic, how typically trollish.

I have a job, hence why I'm not on here 24/7 posting illiterate nonsense and parrotting the languange of the BNP.

You need to get out more.
Shamik Das @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
No Shamik, he's not being a Conservative troll in this instance, he is right. What you said was out of order and you know that. You don't win hearts and minds by falling back on 'plummy'. I agree with you about the content, it doesn't exactly bode well for an all new Conservative movement, but I can see precisely why Guy was angered by your comment. He's gone on a bit, I grant you, but if you use language deliberately and generate a negative response, what do you expect? I rant like a navvy when someone annoys me with crass comments.

Argue that it was poorly made and showed the young people in a negative way, but don't stoop to calling people 'plummy', its poor form and you're intelligent enough to get your point across without resorting to class insults.
Bill Dewison @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
No you just drop to the class warfare levels of "plummy bint"?

As for "parrotting the languange of the BNP", I suggest you read the post again before you comment.

I clearly said "Is dropping to those levels and the one of using "plummy bint" the approach of the "bright new modern forward-thinking" Labour party?". In other words you got hit with the same treatment.

There's nothing like a socialist whining when they get treated with the same methods.

Best get back to your job Shamik, I guess there might be a few "plummy bints" waiting for you to serve their burgers. Oops did you see what I did there?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
{:Bows down to the rewonwed feminist Guy M and looks forward to him standing up for women's rights and defending female authors on this blog from sexist, class-based attacks:}

How about starting by defending this writer and her article?!

There's nothing like right-wing Tory boy hypocrisy!

On the main point, maybe "thick Tory", "dopey muppet" or "ignorant ****" would've been better than "plummy bint"...
Shamik Das @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
I'll try for the 7th time to reply....

Ms Penny is sexist (anti male) and racist (anti white).

I'd no more defend her than I would Nick Griffin.

By the way I'd rather spend time in the company of the "plummy bint" than some working class oick with a racial chip on his shoulder who wants to steal my money.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Finally the mask has slipped! You really should have quit when you had the chance.

What's your next comment gonna be? I bet you're dying to say you prefer Nick Griffin to me!

I can jsut see you straining at the leash, swivel-eyed with a bulging forehead, primed to unleash a tirade against women, "ethnics" and all those blaaady socialists stealing all your money!
Shamik Das @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
No, I think Nick Griffen is pretty much as low as you can go.

Ms Penny is well on her way to reaching his level though.

You however, Shamik, are just another of those lefties who don't like the fact that those who do well don't agree with giving up their hard earned money to fund your like.

I was born and raised in London and I won't accept racism of any sort, so I suggest you take your "ethnic" comment and shove it.

If you think opposition to anti white racism and anti male sexism makes me racist or sexist, I'd suggest you have a long think about why the BNP did so well in Labour areas. Maybe you're part of the problem of the BNP not a solution?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
You mean like some Tories say?

http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/06/bercow-v-bradby-a-classic.html
Alex Smith @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Why on earth would you think a Tory would be defending Bercow?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
I don't insult people I don't want to defend by calling them "oiks" I think is my point.
Alex Smith @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Good for you Alex, personally I've never liked socialists, never befriended socialists, never gone out with a socialist, never had a drink with a socialist and I don't want to "get on" with any socialist either.

If Ms Penny and Shamik are the sort of envious socialists who like voting Labour in and begging them to steal more of my money then as far as I'm concerned calling any of them "oicks" is pretty mild.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
You always have a way of slamming those moderated comments through, don't you? That's a rhetorical question.
Alex Smith @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Alex, your site has had threads from Ms Penny basically blaming white males for all the problems in the UK and then virtually accusing all Londeners of being possible closet racists.

You live and die by these things, so don't be surprised if some of the responses are as hard hitting as the threads.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Hi Guy M - just been reading some of your comments on this thread. I really think it would be wise for you to reconsider the amount of time and energy you're spending at LabourList. It just doesn't seem to be doing you or anyone else that much good - doesn't seem very healthy, at all. Why don't you take a breather from LabourList for a fortnight or two? Life is too short.
Gabe Trodd @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Because I don't intend to sit by whilst people like Shamik post this sort of rubbish:

"Removed by CF London! Scared of the truth, the cowards, bunch of litigious stuck-up t*****s"

If it bothers you that much perhaps you should take a break from reading LL for a fortnight or two?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Shamik in your defence I'd point out to Guy that some Conservative posters on this site make prejudiced, class-based remarks quite frequently.

I recall a couple of days ago one celebrated the fact that he could afford to send his children to private schools so they could avoid the local comprehensive which was "full of chavs". In fact, for all their accusations that the left is motivated by class envy/resentment, they exhibit more of that on this site than the Labour minded. Still, best not to sink to their level. "Thick Tory" it is!
B Bendle @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Silence from the accused.

No wonder. Knockout blow
anti tory troll @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Silence due repeated posts being blocked.

The only way those of you on the left can win debates.. I'll wait for a "no platform" call soon
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Here's a little reminder of how Guy M deals with women who disagree with him, he calls them "out of touch left wing feminista anti-white racists".

Charming!

LL published those choice remarks, so the old "you're censoring my comments" crap won't wash!
Shamik Das @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
6 replies now to your earlier post and not one published.

Censorship is such a wonderful thing
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Guy, you need a job.
Laurence Marshall @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Sadly, given the current weather, I have one as I'd far rather be in the garden now.

Although I'll admit my indignation at some of these posts is keeping from work so keeping me at said desk longer... ah well my fault then.

Nice response to the post though, you dealt with the main points well.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Yeah I know.

You can just admit that you are unemployed and blame it on the Labour government, no one would hold it against you.
Laurence Marshall @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
If I was unemployed (as I have been in the past I'd say so), sadly given the weather I'm not.

In fact as I said given the time I spent on LL earlier, I ended up working far longer than would have been ideal.

Goes to show what a few brain dead socialists can do to atagonise people.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
I'm unemployed, but i'm enjoying the weather and getting back some of the 31 years of tax i've paid.
lee Matthews @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Why can't we watch it anymore?

What about openness?

What about transparency?

Is this the Bullingdon Club photo all over again?

Call 'call me Dave', tell him his future cabinet (very near future if BB in The Telegraph has called it right) aren't being open and transparent.

Updated at 14:49

From Gary Gibbon @ Snowblog -

I am at David Cameron’s speech at Imperial College listening to a paen of praise to the virtues of transparency, free information, transparency and accountability

Secret of good comedy?

Timing
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Why can't we all play each others music and films whenever we want as well?

If it's copyrighted then fair enough.

As always Simon you manage to drop to a student prank level. What makes me think you are rather young and inexperienced?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Socialism at it's finest xx

Spotify
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Socialism at its finest? It's funded by advertising. More third way, surely?
Hugh Pettit @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Ah the third way, what happy memories.

All I can tell you Hugh is that I used to spend £15 on a new CD and now I can legally get it for free with an internet connection. Call it what you want but it smells like progress to me.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Seems like a market solution to enable musicians to get paid for their work and allow a degree of file sharing at the same time.

If it works within the legal system and the market likes it then good luck to it.

Hardly "socialism at it's finest" but then as I've said I suspect you are very young and not that experienced
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
ROTFLMAO

Explain to me how anyone is making money out of a couple of adverts every 20 minutes? Actually don't bother, the answer is they aren't. The business model of the music industry is f*****.

Spotify, YouTube and the rest means free music for the masses (great album, available on Spotify).

Enjoy comrades.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Good, I was hoping to get that sort of reply from you.

I'm pleased to have you announce to LL that you favour stealing the work of musicians and being happy that you get for free the product of their hard work. Personally I pay for the music I buy both online and in store. But then I think it's a moral issue.

This attitude is a lot like you stealing taxes from people isn't it?

The more I read of your posts Simon, the more I'm convinced you are very young, maybe not long out of teenage years and hence you don't have a lot of value or worth to bring to any debate.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Muppet,

The musicians have their 'product' on Spotify and YouTube voluntarily, how the f*** can it be stealing when someone offers it to you for nothing.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
"Spotify, YouTube and the rest means free music for the masses (great album, available on Spotify)."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Warner-Music-Group-and-YouTube-Disagree-Over-Music-Licensing-100573.shtml

and

http://digg.com/tech_news/Youtube_beginning_to_mute_videos_with_copyrighted_music

The point was not directed at either youtube or the musicians but at the users (most of whom seem to be either young or not too bright) who use those platforms to try to get around copyright issues.

Your "free music for the masses" quote is rather stupid as nothing is "free" and someone pays one way or another.

But as I said you are very young it seems, part of "yooff culture" no doubt and not a very good poster.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Guy, haven't you stolen enough from the taxpayer by your shambolic work with CfH? You're the only thief here.
Laurence Marshall @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
You accused me of stealing.

Explain to me what I have stolen.

Report me to the police for theft.

Oh no you can't can you because you're talking rubbish.

As for people who use Spotify being 'either young or not too bright' I take it you include people who write for The Times in that -

Spotify - Times Online.

Note the part that states 'free, legal and quick'.

As for not being too bright, what sort of idiot pays £10 for something that is available for free? How charitable of you.

Oh and while we're at it, get someone to teach you how to link using html, cut and paste is so last century.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
This is the funniest thread I've ever read here.

Like an episode of Life on Mars, Simon has been beamed back to the 1970s where Guy M yells about 'long haired students' and tells them to 'Get off his lawn'.

Don't worry Simon. Youre not in a coma. Youre on LL
anti tory troll @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Can't talk ATT, I'm going on the run from the rozzers who are after me for stealing the new Kasabian 8-track.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Typical socialist! First you want to steal my taxes, now youre trying to rob Kasabian of their hard earned income. Enough ot this bureaucratic European communist red tape! I'm going to cut out the middleman and donate five kilos of my favourite stimulants to these young musical entrepreneurs myself. It's the only moral thing to do young man.

Yours M Guy

PS How dare you be young fun and hip! I find your whole 'yoofulness' completely insulting, but I cheer myself with the realisation that it wont last. Wait till the next general election sonny boy. Id wager youll be 'older' then, but dont come crying to me when that happens
anti tory troll @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
You hit on an interesting philosophical issue ATT AKA MG.

If I pay for the Kasabian CD / download then there is the possibility - remote though it is - that given the high level of drug use amongst some of those who work in the music industry, some of that money may end up in the pockets of drug dealers.

Therefore, you have to ask yourself, which is the more moral stance?

To pay or not to pay?
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
The insipid bearded wonder who filmed that pile of tosh has done nothing to persuade me that Labour are the answer.

Labour's policy remains the same: "We are not the Tories". Powerful stuff.
Jonathan Cook @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Can we have a follow up film from a NUS National Conference with all the little Labour students filmed carrying out the sort of mad debates and motions they do so well?
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
some truly brilliant lines:

'the Tories do more for people on council estates than Labour'
'the current crisis is not in any way a basis to question capitalism'
'what can we take from places like the Cayman Islands and Jersey and apply to Britain to make business want to come here'
'what's your proof that there is global warming'
'every woman in society should be a mother'
my favourite though: 'at the end of the day the Conservative party is pretty rock and roll coz it er, protects ya taxes'.

Is that the best we can hope for from the Conservative party in the years to come?
Morys Ireland @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
my favourite though: 'at the end of the day the Conservative party is pretty rock and roll coz it er, protects ya taxes'.

Quality, not as good as the Republican Party hip-hip makeover though -

Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
'Every woman in society should be a maother', eh?

I thought that there was 'no such thing as society' in their small little world?
Gary Miller @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Yet more youtube posts Simon?

The basic point of the 'at the end of the day the Conservative party is pretty rock and roll coz it er, protects ya taxes' point eludes you still doesn't it?

My money is money I earned for which you and your party did little of nothing to warrant taking it. You have no automatic right to it and yes the Tory party is far more likely to protect my tax levels than a party driven by social and class envy.

You and your political philosophy Simon are nothing more than "it's not faiiiir he's got more than me" and will be consigned to a long period of opposition very soon.

Reminds me of 1996 and the Euro Championships except this time my money is coming home rather than ending up in your pocket.
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
The concept of rock and roll obviously eludes you

Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
In response:

1 Does destroying the country's finances, decreasing social mobility, increasing teenage crime and the size of the underclass represent Labour's work for people on council estates?

2 The current crisis as was pointed out (by a Tory PPC not a CF member) is not a starting point to question capitalism. But far be it for me to stop Labour youth and posters here call for some good old fashioned socialism as it would be worth a lot of votes to the Tories.

3 The Caymans and Jersey have some advantages most notably low taxation. So if you believe in low taxation then the phrase "what can we take from places like the Cayman Islands and Jersey and apply to Britain to make business want to come here" seems quite reasonable.

4 There are global warming nay-sayers in all political parties, so filming one drunk slightly unhinged young girl doesn't say much. I'm a very green Tory and climate change deniers get me pretty annoyed, but I seem to remember a thread on LL a few days ago with a number of Labour supporters critical of the IPCC. Does that make the Labour party all mad anti-environmentalists?

5 Stupid view pushing her personal views on all women. About as stupid as feminists like Ms Penny on LL pushing their feminist tripe on all women.

6 The taxes quote. This is where I get really pro those CF members. I am sick to death with socialists and posters on LL who feel they have some god given right to take as much of my hard earned money as they see fit to waste on their leftie schemes.

My simple message would be, you go earn some money or create some wealth and YOU give it up to spend on projects that I don't believe in.

So in terms of protecting me against high taxation, then yep the Tory party is that party.

This film was another childish attempt by a childish set of Labour kids to perpetuate a political myth. On top of that they and you Morys can't get your heads around the fact that a large percentage of the UK does believe:

* Labour does little or no good for any social group in the country
* Capitalism is the only tried and tested succesful method of governance
* Low taxation does attract busines capital and incentivise people to work harder
* Women "can't have it all" and most realise this and chose between familty and career at various points in their lives
* Low taxation is attractive and don't believe the Labour party knows better what to do with our hard earned money.

In other words all those CF members were doing is highlighting in a typical young person way the basis of the ideological divide between left and right.

Can I say (I was an old YC Area Chairman years ago) that if you want to try to tar young Tories it is quite easy to tar young Labour members as well. I remember from my university days, as I'd head of to represent the uni at some sport on a wednesday afternoon there'd be a large group of labour students huddled in the bar, shabby, bearded often holding court about life's injustices and totally opposed to notions of sport, personal hygiene and the fact that people rather liked keeping more of the money they earnt.

This thread is once again another in a long line of childish and immature posts from socialist deliquents (Ms Penny being a main member)>
Guy M @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
3 The Caymans and Jersey have some advantages most notably low taxation. So if you believe in low taxation then the phrase "what can we take from places like the Cayman Islands and Jersey and apply to Britain to make business want to come here" seems quite reasonable.


This was the dumbest thing he said. The population of Jersey is 91,000, of the Caymans is 48,000. These two territories exist solely on being tax havens. Jersey's income from agriculture and tourism is minuscule compared to the money it makes from being a tax haven. Does Jersey or the Caymans actually make the money that sits in their banks? Do the companies registered in those two territories actually do anything there?

No. Now scale up to a country of 60m (like ours). Where can we find all those companies and individuals willing to use the UK as a tax haven? Has that much money ever been created?

It is utter nonsense to think that the UK (or any country) can have taxes that low. impossible.

The Tories are really scraping the barrel these days.
Richard Blogger @ 57 weeks ago
I'd only ask you to lose the 'climate deniers' phrase -- it seeks to draw some parallel between between the environment and nazi holocaust deniers.

Of course the climate changes - there is only one way it can remain the same and and an infinite number of ways it can change - the odds of the climate remaining constant are vanishingly small.

The amount and direction of change that is due to mankind is a wide open question, whether mankind can take control of future change is also a wide open question.

Sometime in the future the sun is going to explode and destroy our solar system - I don't lose sleep over it.

What is blairs carbon foot print? what is the cabinets? what about prince charles? if these massively well informed people who have the money to do whatever they really care about don't see the need to change their behaviour I don't know why the public should be dumped on.

FWIW: Carbon offset doesn't count -- if people want to pay to plant trees, then they could pay to plant them and *STILL* not fly -- if they really cared about their carbon foot print. (I don't much care about mine, I probably count as fairly frugal, so I can happily live without worrying about a precise figure).

Without a totalitarian dictatorship people will not significantly change their behaviour - that is their choice, they are sovereign in their life choices.

Me? I'd like to buy land so my grandchildren (should I get any) can start olive groves and vinyards in southern england...
tory 'killed for telling the uncomfortable truth' troll @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Guy I generally find some of your blogs interesting.
When I read the feed above, I did wonder if you where in a glass house with a stone in your hand. You and Simon were both childish and in a sense devalued the debate around the video. If Simon is younger and less experienced than you, to some extent I would have expected you as the ADULT to behave responsibly.

Anyway on the video, what did you expect, the Tory party is the same Tory party it has always being and always will be. They are the same party whose heritage is in ensuring that the masses did not have the vote so that the land owners could be have their interests looked after. The same party who set out and destroyed the mining communities in this country so ruthlessly that the effects are still felt, the same party who have reduced the power of collective representation through unions (which Labour have done nothing about), the same party who oppose the minimum wage, the same party which will try and bring back hunting as one of its first acts etc, etc.

On the issue of Tax reduction, how can any party do a reduction on it when some of the MPs are living the high life on it!
There should also be a video about the Labour youth movement to see what they are up to, than we could compare the two.
Mike Aistrop @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Sorry if I came across as childish to you Mike. Let me explain my reasons for posting the 'Republicans Go Urban' video.

A young lady in 'The New Young Conservatives' clip claimed that 'the Conservative Party is pretty rock and roll coz it er, protects ya taxes'. Now as far as I'm aware, there is only one good song ever written about taxes and that was by The Beatles who quite rightly weren't happy with a Labour government taking 95% of their income.

Apart from that, rock and roll and taxes are not natural bedfellows and so the suggestion that Conservative taxation policy is 'rock and roll' is just asking to be ridiculed.

In order to illustrate the comedy value of this claim I drew a parallel with Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican Party. Mr Steele has claimed that - after losing the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama - what his party needed was an 'off the hook hip-hop makeover'.

This attempt at associating a political party that is mainly made up of middle and upper class white males with a musical genre that grew out of black ghetto culture is as ridiculous as the Tory / taxation / rock and roll claim.

I guess I could have spelt this out originally but I thought the video was more interesting and concise. Once again, sorry if it wasn't 'grown up' enough for you.

Maybe Alex should put an 18 rating on this site so we all know to be adult.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
"This attempt at associating a political party that is mainly made up of middle and upper class white males with a musical genre that grew out of black ghetto culture is as ridiculous as the Tory / taxation / rock and roll claim."

You're too young to remember 'Cool Brittania' and TheWarCriminal filling up No10 with members of popular beat comboes then?
Charlie Farley @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
No Charlie I remember 'Cool Brittania' well enough, a phrase that came into existence with Vanity Fair when they championed the second coming of London. Thought up by Toby Young apparently – at least according to him in his book.

And I well remember Noel Gallagher, Meg Matthews and Alan McGee in Downing Street, a low point for me given how much I love Creation.

However, one can at least imagine Tony Blair listening to Oasis but I sincerely doubt Bush, McCain, Romney, Jindal, Huckabee or any other of the other leading Republicanss would sit down of an evening and listen to Lil Jon, but if you know better, I'm happy to be proved wrong.

Governor Sanford perhaps?.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
How do Simon, fair play. I had just listened to the PMQs from wednesday and felt sick to death of all the childish stuff that goes on there.

I was just concerned that the video was something that we could of really talked about to try and uncover what Tory policy really is (could be hard as they don't seem to know). I just had a feeling that the comments between you and Guy could have stopped people contributing.

I did think that Guy calling you childish could not be allowed to pass.
Mike Aistrop @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
Hello Mike,

Yeah PMQs can be a nightmare though I thought Speaker Bercow handled his first outing very well.

I have to say I didn't take the YC video very seriously and that obviously came across in my posts. It's not the greatest suprise that you can find young Conservatives with conservative views but the fact that they had it pulled for copyright infringement (who's exactly) at the same time Cameron was giving a speech about the need for openness and transparency just heightened my amusement.

I take your point about some of the discourse on here putting people off, Alex has done a top job of moving the site on from DD but there's a way to go before it moves on from a slagging match between commies and libertarians.

Don't worry about Guy's digs, I've heard it all from him so many times before it's lost all effect by now.
Simon Leonard @ 57 weeks and 1 day ago
"Labour does little or no good for any social group in the country"

Minimum wage, working tax credits, removal of up-front payments for university, sure start... right the way through to the smaller things like making our top museums free - pretty much all these things have helped me and many others too I'm sure.

"Capitalism is the only tried and tested successful method of governance"

Is capitalism a method of governance or a means of distributing goods? I thought democracy was our method of governance...

"Low taxation does attract busines capital and incentivise people to work harder"

True, but banking secrecy and under-regulated markets lead to the kind of situation we're in now. A situation where the people who really suffer are not the wealthy who benefit most from the tax 'incentives', but the poor.

"Women "can't have it all" and most realise this and chose between familty and career at various points in their lives"

Fair enough, but that is not what the interviewee said is it. They said that ideally every woman should be a mother. I thought Conservatives didn't like the state interfering with their private lives?

"Low taxation is attractive and don't believe the Labour party knows better what to do with our hard earned money"

Lower taxes are attractive, but do they always lead to a fairer, more equal society? Should we be aiming for a society oriented around profit and wealth creation for the few, or one that aims to improve equality and services for the many?
Morys Ireland @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago
Ah, the impetuousness of youth.

Well, what's the best we can hope for from Labour if the strength of the 'yoof' contributions here are anything to go by?

Like unilateral nuclear disarmament? Anti straight-white-males? Trots defending the rights of illegal immigrant to remain? Entrench Labour law into the Constitution?
a b @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago



The Tories do less for people in the Cotswolds than Labour.
social housing anyone?
ash cash @ 57 weeks and 2 days ago