http://www2.parl.gc.ca/MarleauMontpetit/DocumentViewer.aspx?Sec=Ch03&Seq=2&Lang=E

Similar relocations by Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse and others will be great news for RyanAir but of course they pay their taxes in Dublin.

Please John will the Tories abandon Michael Gove’s complex plan and just give generous school vouchers to the least well off ? Honestly the Lib Dem’s talk more sense on school choice than the Tories ! Has the world gone mad…….

Quite simply you can easily explain the Lib Dem plan on the doorstep but Michael Gove’s is so incomprehensible that is deifies belief…

Please John publish these comments and see about a debate in Parliament about which political party trusts parents the most to choose their child’s schooling. That too is an important issue as LEA tyranny has failed – time to trust the parents and by extension Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand !

Green power is going to be hideously more expensive than efficient power, a horribly regressive tax on the population. So the twerp Milliband is going to charge affluent families more, calling it a social tariff. Meanwhile, no action is taken on replacing our aging generating capacity.

Even assuming Cameron doesn’t actually believe this global warming rubbish and is just paying lip service to it in order to get elected, a new Tory government will have to embark on an immediate crash program of propaganda to justify a sensible approach to the nation’s energy generation.
Given that the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive is ging to close down our large coal-fired generators within the lifetime of the next parliament (taking out ~20% of our generating capacity), and that the nuclear plants are all on their last legs and should be closed down in the next few years, the next Government seems to face a real possibility of regular sustained power cuts. Which, I think, will not be good for its re-election prospects.

How’s that for scorched earth ?

actually the discrimination against folk from the north is much more real than that

hariet harman should be shot, but the anti discrimination legislation should be extended to prevent discrimination for regional or class based accents, which school you went to etc

the north suffers badly under labour and sensible folk on the TV speaking for the conservatives with northern/working class accents would be able to make progress, as it is the majority of the conservative reps on TV remain public school and/or obvious southern middle class fodder

what happened to daves great cry to hear from a wider section of the community that wanted to stand as prospective conservative MP’s – how many folk who genuinely are the 1st generation to escape working class routes made it?

i actually think one of the most offensive things that consecutive governments have done is allow ongoing poor schools to survive, and to allow poor kids on bad estates no possible escape route through education

since you mention sunderland you only have to look at pennywell school, it was terrible 30 odd years ago, and its still appauling, how such a school is allowed to open its doorts in a 21st century western democracy is beyond me

and hence we are driving outselves to dust

The Tories (as far as i can make out) oppose the Third Runway at LHR to try and hold marginal seats in West London(e.g. Putney). The British Chamber of Commerce reckon that blocking a Third Runway costs us one billion pounds a year. (See http://www.colinbuchanan.com/view/news/economic-impacts-of-hub-airports )

If the Thames Estuary Airport supported by Mayor Boris looks like getting going I reckon some political party will try and wreck that.

London area airport planning is a sorry example of the do nothing society that has lots of processes to block major infrastructure projects.

It’s a cause that you’ve never promoted on your southern based blog.

This discrimination is at long last being recognised.

Because I was born in the north I have been consistently overlooked on the honour’s list, didn’t get into Oxford and haven’t been offered the chairman’s job of any quango.
Yet I pay taxes at the same rate as southerners.

People who discriminate against northerners, or indeed make racist jokes about northerners should be subject to prosecution.
(Sunderland residents exempt, because they deserve to be discriminated against, oh….and anyone from Yorkshire, because they’re really southerners and anyway I don’t like them much)

I propose that Ms Harman gives me the chair of a new quango that’s close to my heart the “Blackpuddin Quality Standards and Accreditation Group” I will take this on for £400,000 per annum.

Bill

Corbridge
Northumberland

So as a matter of principle only British citizens should be allowed to vote in British elections and referendums. It’s unfortunate that long established concessions enabling some foreign citizens to vote in some of our elections would have to go, but it has to be done.

It also follows that as a general rule only British citizens should be permitted to make donations to British political parties.

Consulting the electoral register would only be a first step to determining whether a certain person was a permissible donor.

Some of those presently on the electoral register would not in fact be permissible donors, because they are not British citizens, while ex-patriate citizens would be permissible donors even though they were not presently resident in the country and therefore were not on any electoral register.

Whether or not they pay certain taxes in this country is immaterial; after all there are large numbers of citizens resident in this country who pay no income tax, and even more who are net recipients rather than net payers of tax money, and it was agreed long ago that this would not affect their rights as citizens.

Just as each individual citizen votes as an individual, and not through any organisation exercising a block vote on their behalf, so too all donations to political parties should be from individuals and made entirely out their personal resources. Donations from organisations of any kind should be totally prohibited.

Equally, any citizen should be able to discover whether another citizen is making abnormally large donations to a party, which may be giving him an abnormal degree of influence or control; so all such donations should be made public at the time they are made. The use of proxies for such donations should be totally prohibited.

For practical purposes the definition of “abnormally large” should be written into “de minimus” rules, making it legal for a party to aggregrate small donations in cash and disregard small donations in kind, so preserving the anonymity of the donors; similar “de minimus” rules should also make it legal for a foreign citizen to, for example, put a fiver in the collection at a public meeting as a contribution towards the costs.

All at high cost.

Even the rubbish only gets collected once a fortnight now in some areas, our rented holiday cottage in Devon last week being in one such an area.

Raw food waste sits and rots in bins for up to two weeks, a feast for flies, a breeding ground for maggots, a possible health hazard, leaving a stench in the air.

They (Government, Local Authorities) call it progress.
But most of us would say that we are going backwards in so many ways.
We will soon need to develop eyes in the back of our heads, or have wing mirrors on our glasses such is the speed of decline.

How far do we have to decline until some sensible Politician sees the light of commonsense.

Look, charitable status in now used by the Left as a) a means to give succor to their own fifth column, the Rowndtree trust, Common purpose, etc,. b) as a means to control those independent organisations that employ CS.

The Tories would do far more damage to Labour and their minions if you simply abolished charitable status altogether.

Yesterday we saw Labour’s malevolent response to their self inflicted failures in this respect – to seek to disable the private sector’s funding. So much for ‘education! education! education! and the fulfillment of a majority of the people’s aspirations for the futures of their children under this now completely discredited government.

Surely there is a powerful message for the Conservative party to deliver here, come the next election?

Please could you give brief reply on the meaning of the following from Hansard:-

“Mr. Deputy Speaker: I must draw the House’s attention to the fact that privilege is involved in Lords amendment 33. If the House agrees to that amendment, I shall ensure that the appropriate entry is made in the Journal.”