James Parker on the Iris Robinson Controversy

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Campaigning in Essex

Spending the day in Harlow working on a Council by-Election, trying to take a ward that has always been Labour. If you’re a Conservative member we could always do with your help for the knock-up after 5pm. If you want to come and help, give us a ring on 01279 429251.
Want an indication of how [...]

The Church of England Agrees - Labour are Ungodly

Wow.
Who’d have thought it? A Church of England report says that Labour have effectively discriminated against Christianity and that in comparison, David Cameron’s Conservatives have a "genuine thirst to understand and combat poverty". More than this,

"Despite many voices in the Church telling us, ‘there is no difference between any of the [...]

Because of this, the land mourns

Take some time out and listen to this fantastic sermon by Charlie Cleverly of St Aldates, preached last Sunday. Press the play button after reading the Psalm.

1 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel,
for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and no [...]

Petitioning the Queen

I’ve never done it before, but tonight was the first time. May I suggest that all the UK readers of this blog should engage in this act as a loyal subject.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
21st May 2008
Your Majesty,
For the defence of your most vulnerable subjects, for the [...]

Married versus Gay Parenting

Here’s some controversial findings from a large study published in the States in 2003.

Same-sex couple families
The 2000 Census revealed that out of 5.5 million cohabiting couples, about 11 percent were same-sex couples—with slightly more male couples than female. One-third of female same-sex households and 22 percent of male households, or about 163,000 same-sex households in [...]

Voting Labour is Un-Christian

Now there’s a provocative blog post title and no mistake, but it’s the view put forward this morning by Cranmer:

When is a free vote not a free vote?
When it is an issue of conscience and Harriet Harman leads a whipping like the one witnessed on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
Whipping is usually fully [...]

Labour’s Deputy Leader Whipped Abortion Vote

It’s now out in the open. Despite the fact that abortion is meant to be a conscience issue in the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, organised a massive whipping operation on Labour MPs during Tuesday’s debate on lowering the legal limit on abortion.

A secret plot led by Labour’s [...]

New Labour, Dead Babies

The Wilted Rose is carrying this great letter on why Labour is morally bankrupt.

Since I turned 18 ten years ago I’ve always voted … Anyway, I’ve always voted Labour …
Flip flopping over whether to hold an election (missed an opportunity there Gordy!), and the shambles that was the 10p Tax Band… not exactly impressed me [...]

Just In Case You Missed It

It’s great to be a Conservative at the moment. Pic courtesy of Conservative Home.

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The Hypocrisy of Labour

Information is beginning to emerge about how the abortion vote on Tuesday evening was subtlely whipped by Labour.
As Conservative Home point out this morning in this great chart, the abortion vote did split roughly on party lines.

Now some of that is to do with how socially liberal Labour MPs tend to be (and socially conservative [...]

Nadine Dorries rises to the Moment

Just watched a brilliant speech in the Common by Nadine Dorries in support of her amendment to the Embryology Bill to reduce the limit for abortion to 20 weeks. Will try and get video up of it ASAP.

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On Victim Narratives

A fantastic piece on being a victim by Andrew Lilico

All of us are influenced by narratives, tales of why our lives are as they are, how other people will act in certain situations and how they will react if we behave thus-and-so.  Religious people may adopt accounts of how they tempted into Sin, but how [...]

An Open Challenge to those in Favour of Retaining 24 Weeks

This is nice and simple. I challenge absolutely anybody who is in favour of maintaining the limit on abortions to do the following:

Read this piece from yesterday’s Telegraph
Explain coherently why it would have been moral to inject Ellie-Suzanne’s heart with poison to kill her and then to dismember her before removing the body parts a [...]

10p U-Turn STILL taxes the poorest

Reuben and I couldn’t sleep, so we decided to go for a drive, pick up a Daily Mail and McD’s breakfast and see if that helped. On returning home, we read the frontpage of the Mail and decided to work out whether the Labour Party’s U-Turn really did help the poorest who were affected by [...]

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