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2024 General Election year A Tory Said What: March
Welcome back to the third edition of the revived series of posts called ‘A Tory Said What!’ With a General Election due sometime within the next 12 months or whenever our unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak [Shown above in the feature image; feature image from The Evening Standard] decides to call it, I thought I’d…
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A Tory Said What (2024 General Election Series): February.
Welcome back to the second edition of the resurrected ‘A Tory Said What; post. As explained in the January edition, these posts were a common thread of the previous incarnation of this blog which I decided to revive as we eventually head into the next General Election; whenever our unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak [Feature…
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A Tory Said What General Election Year Series: January 2024
In the previous incarnation of The Mind of Rowan, I did a series of posts called ‘A Tory Said What’. These posts aimed to highlight comments that had been made by Conservative MPs that were incorrect, misleading or questionable to the outright disgraceful and just ridiculous. Given that 2024 is expected to be a General…
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We can’t wait for the Autumn Prime Minister, if you’re so confident of winning, call a General Election Now!
Under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act, the House of Commons can sit for five years and one day after it first met (17th December 2019) with a polling day expected to be 25 days later. That means a General Election must be held no later than 25th January 2025. It is therefore expected that we…
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Discussing Rishi Sunak’s disastrous net-zero u-turn
On September 9th, the G20 Summit met in India. One of the agreements reached at the summit was a commitment to develop a new India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. Its aims included bridging ports across the two continents; making it easier to trade, export clean energy and expand access to clean electricity as well as easier…
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The curious case of Robert Jenrick vs Mickey Mouse
At the end of June, there was a story initially reported by The Independent which caught my eye for all the wrong reasons and my reaction was a mix of anger. Despair and anger that this is the level our country has reached. The story in question? The decision by immigration minister Robert Jenrick [Feature…
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Labour in the Gutter, I thought they were better than this!
A lot of coverage over the Easter weekend was rightfully focused on the impending 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. However, significant coverage also fell onto questionable campaign posters by the Labour Party with just weeks to go until the latest round of local elections. The campaign posters in question targeted Prime Minister Rishi…
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Nadhim Zahawi’s tax-affairs make his position in Cabinet untenbale, he should go!
Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi [Pictured above in the feature image; feature image from HuffPost UK] has rather got himself into a pickle. That is putting it lightly as he is in the news regarding his tax affairs and this time, it is not going away. It relates to the founding of the polling company…
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Who Voted For This?
Who voted for this? It is a simple yet effective and powerful question. The question was placed on identical banners brandished by two Greenpeace activists [Pictured above; feature image from The Big Issue] during Liz Truss’s keynote Conference speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham. Of course, the two protestors-Greenpeace UK’s head of public…
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Get Britain Working Again…can we start with Parliament?
‘Firstly, I will get Britain working again’ Liz Truss, 6th September 2022 The above was part of Liz Truss’s maiden speech as Prime Minister on the doorstep of Downing Street [Feature image above from Sky News]. It was one of her self-declared early principles for her tenure as Prime Minister and it is with her…
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