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 Sienna Miller,
Seeing as the financial crisis and the Brand/Ross debacle continue to bore everyone, it was interesting to see your landmark legal action about the paparazzi get some coverage today.  Unlike Russell Brand being an insensitive, vulgar and obnoxious idiot, I find your legal case genuinely interesting and it is an issue that I [...]

Although I think it’s a very amusing suggestion, I’m still left scratching my head trying to figure out who would want to wear one of THESE.

Dear Geoff Hoon,
Seeing as your legacy as Defence Secretary consisted of failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the cost of thousands of innocent lives and British service personnel, you presumably saw Transport Secretary as a fairly cushy number.  What you obviously didn’t realise was that your incompetence could still be very damaging in your [...]

“Whatever the merits of the Brand-Ross joke, or the judgment of the BBC editors, the last thing we want is comedy content being decided by Gordon Brown or Jeremy Hunt”
- Dr Evan Harris, Lib Dem MP

Dear Nick Clegg,
It was on reading the ComRes poll yesterday that something rather amusing struck me.  While Brown has been hailed a global hero (much to my annoyance) and Cameron has been fighting back with attacks on the Prime Minister’s judgement and record, it suddenly occured to me that you are nowhere to be seen.  [...]

“As Warren Buffett once put it, when the tide goes out you learn who’s been swimming naked – and as the water has receded rapidly down the beach, it has been possible for the first time in many years to see the UK economy as nature intended. And it is clear we are not getting [...]

Dear Michael Brown,
Your analysis of today’s ComRes poll in The Independent has highlighted a number of problems facing the Conservatives, none of which are easy to deal with.  Four weeks ago, ComRes had Cameron 12 points ahead but this has now slipped to a 8 point lead – 39 to the Conservatives (-2), 31 to Labour [...]

Not only do the polls suggest that Barack Obama is going to give Republicans a terrifying experience on election day in November, he will also be giving many Republicans one hell of a fright on Halloween as well.

Dear Gary McFarlane,
I’m not sure you could have split my own personal opinion any more if you tried.  As you are a Christian, I can confidently state that my attitude towards homosexuals is more liberal than yours.  Now that you have been sacked by Relate, the national counselling service, for refusing to give sex advice [...]

“The polls are all over the map”
- John McCain, who evidently resorted to stating the obvious when discussing the new Reuters-Zogby poll that put Obama’s advantage at five points

Dear Martin Kettle,
Like many others, the conclusions that you have drawn from the Osborne-Mandelson debacle go far beyond what is necessary and appropriate.  Thankfully, it seems that after a few days of continuous press attention (ok, continuous BBC attention) people have realised that Osborne has broken any rules and Mandelson is still the corrupt soul that [...]

“He has taken up more positions on immigration than someone in training with the Kama Sutra”
- Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne on Phil Woolas who, he said, had made a “cack-handed” start as Immigration Minister

Dear Sarah Palin,
I don’t know how you do it.  I really don’t know how you do it.  Everytime I have seen you on TV or read about you in the papers, ever since your speech at the Republican convention, I put my head in my hands.  To this day, I have no idea how anyone [...]

For yet another example of how Labour’s health and safety culture is destroying the enjoyment of a whole generation of children around the country, CLICK HERE.

Dear Peter Mandelson,
No doubt you are trying to keep a low profile at the moment while George Osborne inadvertently deflects attention from your own meetings with the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.  The fact that you allegedly “dripped pure poison” about Gordon Brown at the dinner table with Osborne and Rothschild seems long-forgotten (at least, for [...]

“I did not have sexual relations with that Russian”

Dear Harriet Harman,
Cynicism.  Pure cynicism.  Instead of facing the music, you run and hide.  Labour’s contempt for civil liberties is becoming so overwhelming that barely a day passes without someone reminding that government that we live in a free country and should behave as such.  Now it is clear to me that Labour is rapidly [...]

Dear Alex Salmond,
With a by-election fight against Labour just round the corner, it comes as no surprise that you are mounting an offensive against Gordon Brown.  With only a matter of weeks for voters to make up their minds, there is considerable pressure on both parties to attract voters.  Unfortunately, you have interpreted this task [...]

“In 10 years, one of the world’s most envied pensions systems has been shot to pieces, and the victims are forced to pay for the comfortable retirement of those responsible. We know who to blame. Unlike Dick Turpin, Mr Brown did not even have the decency to wear a mask.”
- Philip Johnston, in his article [...]

Inevitably, during an economic downturn there will be millions of people who are left in dire straits.  There will also be a lucky few who manage to benefit from such miserable economic circumstances, and it is a wonderful irony that one of those who seems to be making a decent profit out of the credit crunch [...]

Following the problems in the sub-prime lending market in America and the run on Northern Rock in the UK, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last seven days Origami Bank has folded, Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank announced plans to cut some of its branches. Yesterday, it was announced that [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Now that times are tough and government spending is being put under increasing pressure, I’m sure there are many discussions going on behind the scenes about how to manage departmental finances.  There are some areas of centralised spending that I’m sure many people would be happy to see reductions in – pointless quangos, [...]

“It’s like telling everyone you’re going on a calorie-controlled diet but not counting cream cakes.”
- Lib Dem climate change and energy spokesman Steve Webb, on Ed Miliband’s decision not to include aviation and shipping in the new target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80%

Dear Ben Macintyre,
Many of the papers today are declaring McCain’s failure to land a killer punch in the last Presidential debate yesterday evening as the end of the road for his campaign.  His hostile approach, both in adverts and in these three debates, seems to have driven away many swing voters – leaving Obama with [...]

“The whole affair smelt more of a drive-by shooting than a negotiation”
- Sir Fred Goodwin, outsted chief of RBS, speaking to Paul Myners who led the team that negotiated the bailout terms with the Treasury