Why are there so many tories commenting on everything here?

The Conservatives have withdrawn the whip from Bob Spink, MP for Castle Point.

Or is it belated good riddance to bad rubbish? Tom P of Capital & Labour (and his Mrs) has finally had enough of active Conservative Party supporters,Fidelity Investment. Fidelity has donated £435, 500 (£115,000 in 2007 alone) to the Tories in recent years without disclosing the information to their investors.

Tories face uproar over accusing Labour of "gimmicks"

Why doesn't someone make a formal complaint about Ashcroft? He apparently isn't on the electoral register anywhere, his companies are a web of international intrigue (some British, some not British) and the Tories appear to be lying about his tax and residence status.

Ashcroft's ill-gotten gains which may have been illegally donated to the Tories are funding nasty, personal attacks against some of our brightest and best candidates.

Plus he's paying millions in to the Tories nationally.

If someone is the majority (or outright) owner of a company and therefore has the power to direct that company to make a political donation, surely that should be seen in the same way as Abrahams' donations via proxy or Hain's imaginary think tank.

Otherwise why doesn't everyone who wants to make a secret donation just register an imaginary company and make the donations through that...

HOLD ON A MINUTE - THAT'S JUST WHAT LOTS OF THE TORIES HAVE DONE....
 

David Davies' outburst today against Gordon Brown is a smokescreen to hide the Tories hurried scrabble to get out of the Derek Conway row.

Look at this: last week Cameron announced his FRONT BENCH would have until April to declare if they employed family members - ie: were guilty of the same misappropriation of taxpayers money as Derek Conway. That gave them two months to stop doing it and put their houses in order.

Today he changed his mind and said they would have until JULY to do it. Remember this is front benchers not back benchers, he isn't asking them to declare anything at all.

It looks to me like one of the Tory Front Bench is being protected from having to delcare something embarrassing - let's see if we can find out who it is.

I listened and read with interest David Cameron’s plans for the long-term unemployed. I was intrigued and concerned.

This is my editorial in the new year issue of the Fabian Review, which The Observer reports this morning, on how Gordon Brown should fight back in 2008. Fabian Review is published 3rd January 2008 and is a 'World After Bush' special issue. Join the Fabians to get a copy.

According to BBC Newsnight, a Policy Exchange   report into "The Hijacking of British Islam" has questionable evidence.

If Lord Ashcroft is putting hundreds of thousands of pounds into Tory campaigns, why isn't he putting money into the UK exchequer?

It seems despite promises by William Hague that the Conservative's biggest donor would move back to the UK and pay income tax here, Ashcroft is still avoiding tax whilst pumping money into marginal seats.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,2208695,00.html

Will Parbury continues his look at a changing Conservative party. For the first half click here

Nick Robinson has noted in his blog how quickly David Cameron has backed away from blaming Gordon Brown for the problems at Northern Rock.

The head of Labour's Ethnic Minority Taskforce has renewed calls for the introduction of all ethnic minority shortlists. 

David Cameron has now retracted his apology for claiming that hospitals were under threat of closure or downgrading services when they weren’t. The Tories have said that a “junior researcher” has apologised in error.

A Conservative MP has suggested that David Cameron’s campaign to save emergency and maternity services at 19 district hospitals is a scaremongering exercise exploiting older people and the vulnerable...
Henry Bellingham, Conservative MP for Norfolk North West said, “As a local MP I wasn't consulted on this and I apologise unreservedly to the staff of the hospital”.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2147199,00.html 

"The most controversial proposal in the report, which aims to improve the competitiveness of the British economy, would see a Tory government restore the opt-out from the European Social Chapter, which was removed by Labour in 1997. Redwood will also call for EU working time regulations to be repealed."