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.

Dear readers,
I’m having a brief break from blogging as I will be attending the Conservative Party conference for the first time ever.  Not sure what it will be like, although I’ve been told to expect lots of sausage rolls and warm wine.  Anyway, here are my five predictions for the next few days:
1. The press [...]

Dear Senator Christopher Dodd,
As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, you proudly announced yesterday that all parties had reached a “fundamental agreement” on the principles of a deal to bailout Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion and claimed “we are prepared to act expeditiously … and send a message to the markets.”  This is [...]

The recent news that Sharia law is already allowed to operate inside the UK left me absolutely fuming.  As if that wasn’t bad enough, I now find out that Sharia law is attacking some of the greatest and most prominent figures of the 20th century.

Dear John McCain,
I know your campaign strategists must have been rubbing their hands with glee as you tried to portray yourself as the American hero last night by suspending your presidental campaign and calling for tomorrow night’s presidential debate to be postponed.  No doubt you were hoping to convince voters that you take the economy [...]

Ruth Kelly said: “It’s been a tremendous privilege to have worked with both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, two towering figures in the Labour Party, government and on the world stage. But, as well as a frontline politician, I’m also proud to be a mother and a wife. To have been able to hold these [...]

Dear Simon Heffer,
Normally you are a little too crude for my tastes, but today I think you have hit the mark quite beautifully in your article for the Telegraph.  Like you, I sat through Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday and wondered what on earth was going on.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard somebody talk so much [...]

David Cameron has been talking a lot about personal responsibility recently when it comes to Conservative Party policy, so I wonder what he has to say about THESE PEOPLE.

Dear David Miliband,
You just don’t stop, do you.  After the PR catastrophe of your article in the Guardian a while back, I would have thought that you’d play it safe and praise Gordon Brown to the heavens in your speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday.  I was wrong.  You had planted so many covert [...]

“Mrs Mikko obviously does not understand that blogs have become the life blood of a vibrant democracy.  I hope these proposals are kicked out.”
- Chris Heaton-Harris, Conservative MEP, reacting to the news that MEPs are preparing to vote on proposals for EU regulation of blogs with the aim of countering a “dangerous” and unregulated blogosphere [...]

Dear Jackie Ashley,
It seems that as the cooler autumn temperatures set in, a nasty bug is going round Labour voters to the point where they are all having the same mild delusions about Gordon Brown suddenly not being as incompetent as he was a week ago.  In your article for the Guardian this morning, you [...]

“Conference is like the family coming together at Christmas: all the relatives are there – those you love and those you hate – but you put on a good show for the kids’ sake. That’s what’s going on.”
- Barry Gardiner, Labour MP

There are some things about politicians’ private lives that they should really keep to themselves, and then there are some things about politician’s private lives that they should really really really really REALLY keep to themselves!

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Just brilliant.

Dear Bridget Prentice,
As a Labour MP I suspect that ‘having a spine’ is probably too much to ask, but I’m going to try anyway.  I don’t think for one second that you have much power as the parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Ministry of Justice, but you should be shouting from the rooftops about [...]

“I think the bankers at Lehman Brothers have suffered enough without having to attend a Lloyd-Webber show”
- Labour MP Stephen Pound on Lord Lloyd-Webber’s offer of free tickets to his West End productions for victims of the City crisis

Dear Nick Clegg,
You twat.  I mean, honestly.  Your whole conference has commanded a token amount of media attention and it’s only political geeks like myself who have bothered to try and find out what has been happening – and what a waste of time that was.  Your final speech yesterday was a dire finale to [...]

I’ve heard a lot of politicians in my lifetime apologise for the things they’ve done, but now they seem to be apologising for things that they haven’t done….

Dear Sarah Palin,
I really don’t like you very much.  I was astonished, and remain astonished to this day, at how someone could attract so many voters to support their party when they read out one speech with a couple of lame jokes that didn’t talk about policy at all.  So much for the US Presidential [...]

“The rebels are an odd bunch. Some of them are former ministers. We all understand how they became ‘former’. The puzzle is how they became ministers in the first place”
- Labour MP Paul Flynn

Dear Sadiq Khan,
You disgust me.  All of you Labour MPs go on and on about equality when in reality your calls for equality are just a disguise for attacking different sections of the population.  Your call this morning for a new religious discrimination law which would require public bodies to have a legal duty to promote [...]

I agree that the unemployed should be given a nudge in the right direction when it comes to looking for a job, but I think THIS POLITICIAN takes it a little too far!

Dear Jacqui Smith,
You want to see “every child living their lives free from fear.”  Hard to disagree with your sentiment, although your policy is likely to suffer from the law of unintended consequences.  Allowing parents to ask if someone close to their family is a sex offender has an appealing simplicity to it and thankfully falls short of [...]

“I know the Conservative Party is supposed to be modernising but do we have to throw every value out of the window? Can you imagine what our old ladies are going to make of it if they turn up there by mistake?”
- Ann Widdecombe MP, responding to the revelation that Conservative conference delegates have been [...]

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A dozen MPs have asked for leadership nomination papers.
Junior whip Siobhain McDonagh was fired after saying she wanted a debate on the leadership of the Labour Party to be out in the open.
Six Labour ex-ministers have signed an article in Progress Magazine calling for a “new narrative” from Labour which “has to be more than a [...]