Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

I’ve never been called up for jury service before.  Thankfully, my mind has been put at ease as I have just discovered that doing jury service doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself.

Dear David Cameron,
So close, yet so far.  It was brave of you to venture into unchartered territory over the West Lothian question as we approach the release of Ken Clarke’s findings from his Democracy taskforce.  However, while I am generally happy with the apparent outcome of Clarke’s work I’m still disappointed that you haven’t gone [...]

“”We don’t want to see excuses about poor performance”
- Ed Balls talking about Gordon Brown the new plans to replace failing schools with Academies (even though Academies are no longer proper independent Academies like the ones Blair created because they are now controlled by the Local Education Authority and no longer have flexibility over their curriculum and staffing since [...]

January 2008: “I’m going to raise the level of political dialog in America,” John McCain said at a campaign rally in central Michigan, “and I’m going to treat my opponents with respect and demand that they treat me with respect.”
April 2008: John McCain called for a presidential campaign that is more like a respectful argument [...]

Dear crooked Conservative MEPs,
I simply cannot believe what I am reading.  You really don’t get it, do you.  When faced with a barrage of evidence showing how immorally you have acted, your reactions have been extremely disappointing.  Your resignations should have been handed in the second that you were caught, but instead you have decided [...]

“We have seen a great many people on our national stage who are great communicators but they have nothing whatever to communicate. People see through that now”
- Baroness Thatcher

Being a ‘Eurosceptic’, I often have many arguments with Europhiles about the future of the EU.  Many of them think that closer integration with other countries is a good thing but still deny that a Federal States of Europe is the ultimate goal for the EU.  If any of my readers share the view that [...]

Dear Caroline Spelman,
You appear to have become a victim of the guilty-until-proven-innocent vibe that is running through the media at the moment.  After the Giles Chichester scandal, the media have decided to tarnish you with the same brush, regardless of the substantial differences between the two sets of circumstances.
Let’s quickly clarify a few things.  Tina [...]

Quotes about George Bush’s visit to the UK:
“George Bush should be in The Hague facing war crimes charges over the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq since 2003, not being entertained in Downing Street. Gordon Brown doesn’t need a policy brief for this meeting, just a pair of handcuffs.”
- Andrew Murray, the chair [...]

Is it really all over for Hillary?  The betting markets don’t think so.

Dear United Nations,
Being an organisation that is supposed to represent every corner of the globe, I’m sure that many citizens were looking to you for a definitive plan of action to help ease the world food crisis.  Oh dear.  Normal business was resumed at the United Nations yesterday as plenty of speeches were made but no-one [...]

“She was the best man for the job”
- Sir Mark Thatcher on his mother becoming Tory leader and then prime minister.

Dear John McCain,
The race is on.  At long last you know who your opponent is in the battle for the White House.  For months you have failed to wrestle the spotlight from the Obama-Clinton media circus, but now your chance has come to stamp your authority on the Presidency.  Like both the Democratic candidates, you [...]

Study the following pictures and answer the question below:

Are the people in these pictures a combination of:
(a) Slovenian and Lithuanian football fans
(b) Spanish and Portuguese truck drivers
(c) French and Italian fisherman
(d) Belgian and German farmers
ANSWER: Click here.

Dear Douglas Alexander,
Your feet-stomping over the presence of Robert Mugabe at the UN Food Summit was justified but doesn’t help feed the millions of people around the world currently at risk of starvation.  Now that you have registered your protest, how about you do something to save all those lives?
So far, the government’s response to [...]

With the credit crunch damaging UK consumer confidence and house prices taking a serious hit, leaving many homeowners facing negative equity, it is with great pleasure that I bring you news of the House of Lords showing considerable restraint when using taxpayers’ money to purchase new premises in Westminster.

The question now is will he ever get the chance to bring about ‘change’ from the White House?

And where is our Foreign Secretary David Miliband? What has he got to say on such a serious international incident?  Nothing, he hides away behind Gordon Brown, just like last time, and the time before that, and the time before that….

Dear readers,
It would be nice to think that when it came to national security, our Prime Minister would show a little more evidence that he possesses a spinal cord than he did over the 10p tax rate furore when faced with a bunch of unhappy Labour rebels.  Sadly for this country, the Rebels have made [...]

“He is not going to wait at the phone like a high-school girl waiting for a date”
- an aide to Barack Obama suggesting that the Democrat hopeful for the White House might declare victory over Hillary Clinton before she formally concedes