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 Nick Griffin,
By your standards you’ve had a relatively quiet few months after your dismal appearance on Question Time back in October.  However, this does not mean that your party has become irrelevant for the general election.  Rumour has it that you will attempt to capitalise on disillusionment with both Labour and the Conservatives over [...]

First Labour stole ‘British Jobs for British Workers’.
Now Labour steal the BNP campaign slogan ‘Operation Fightback’ as their general election branding.
As if that wasn’t comical enough, Labour’s ‘Operation Fightback’ leaflet for Labour candidates explicitly warns Labour activists against asking for support on the basis of Labour’s record in office.  “Labour needs to ensure that the next election [...]

Dear Nick Griffin,
I’m not quite sure whether the decision by BNP members to scrap your whites-only membership rules is the beginning or the end of this saga.  Your hand had been forced by the threat of a court injunction from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and you will now have to go back to court [...]

Dear John Denham,
For a Labour minister to talk common sense is such a momentous occasion that I was in no doubt that I should be writing a letter to you this morning.  Yesterday you declared that being black or Asian no longer means you will be automatically disadvantaged.  Incredible stuff, really.  Unfortunately, your eureka moment falls [...]

Dear Sunny Hundal,
It was interesting to read your 2009 in statistics and popular blogposts article on Liberal Conspiracy yesterday, as it showed a doubling of your unique visitors over the past 12 months.  However, my overall impression from your stats was that, despite doubling your readership, your site hasn’t really gone anywhere.  Allow me to explain.
Let’s start with your [...]

“The BBC has handed the BNP the gift of the century on a plate and now we see the consequences. I’m very angry.”
- Peter Hain, Welsh Secretary, after a poll suggested support for the BNP has risen after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time.  A YouGov poll in the Daily Telegraph, conducted just after the show finished, suggests [...]

Before Question Time last night, we knew that:
(a) Nick Griffin was a twat.
(b) Unite Against Fascism were a bunch of illiberal, anti-democratic loons who choose violence over discussion every time.
(c) The BNP’s policies and record would not stand up to any serious scrutiny.
(d) The Question Time audience were clearly going to be rigged against the [...]

“Question Time is scheduled for 10.35pm tonight and will be a milestone in the indomitable march of the British National Party towards saving our country.  Our violent opponents on the far left have promised to lay siege and barricade the studio venue, because they know only too well that this could be the key moment that [...]

“We want to be clear that the BBC should not be handing the BNP this invitation to political respectability.”
- a spokesman for Unite Against Fascism, who will be holding a day-long protest at Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time.  The programme’s producers are to push ahead with next week’s show, despite UAF’s plans to protest outside [...]

Dear trade unions,
The current postal strikes have clarified yet again what a desperately poor understanding you all have of political and economic realities.  Yesterday, you made fools of yourselves yet again by calling for BNP members to be banned from working in the entire public sector as you apparently vowed to mobilise against the threat [...]

Dear BBC,
Your anti-fascist agenda is thinly veiled these days and your delight at the jail sentences handed out to two rather unsavoury individuals yesterday was obvious enough.  What you failed to realise, however, was that these jail terms demonstrated how seriously the free speech of British citizens is now being curbed.
In a landmark case, neo-Nazis [...]

“…the only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over. Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats.”
- Nick Griffin, BNP leader, when speaking to BBC Parliament.  Shirin [...]

Dear Nick Griffin,
My goodness me, you must be loving all this.  Talk about free publicity.  As if ‘Unite Against Fascism’ didn’t stimulate enough of a sympathy vote for your perfectly legitimate party, we now have the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) trying to change the law on race hate crimes just to make it easier to [...]

Dear United Synagogue,
Yesterday’s Appeal Court ruling that may force all Jewish Schools to change their admissions rules is to be welcomed.  You might not have agreed with their decision, but your behaviour was clearly out of order and discriminatory, demonstrating yet again why faith schools are so counterproductive when it comes to creating a tolerant, cohesive society.
The [...]

Dear Donna Guthrie,
As a key member of Unite Against Facism, you must have been pleased to receive the backing of David Cameron, Tony Benn and other leading politicians over recent weeks.  However, your little stunt yesterday has totally undermined any credibility you might have had and emphasised the disgraceful hypocrisy that surrounds the Left’s attitude towards [...]

“For the BNP to claim to be more British than the other British parties is as nonsensical as your dad suddenly claiming to have invented the beard.”
- Charlie Brooker on Comment is Free (full article HERE)

“Despite the fact of driving through an ambush is actually routine for all military vehicles drivers in the British Army in Iraq, the politically correct Ministry of Defence decided to elevate this particular occasion to something worthy of the VC.”
- an article on the BNP website, claiming that the Iraq war hero Johnson Beharry was [...]

Dear Peter Hain,
Better late than never, but with a matter of weeks to go until Labour’s crushing wipeout at the Euro elections you have openly admitted that the BNP could really hurt Labour.  You warned today that the BNP could get up to £2 million from the EU if the main political parties fail to prevent [...]

Dear Chris Keates,
As leader of the NASUWT, one of the biggest teaching unions in the UK, I would have thought that you understood the importance of showing judgement and approaching topics with a certain level of common sense.  Unfortunately, you lack both judgement and common sense on the evidence of your comments today.  After the [...]

Dear readers,
Three stories jumped out at me over the past 24 hours.
1. The Times, today: “The British National Party sought yesterday to present the killing of one of its activists by a Muslim elder as an act of white martyrdom.  On the steps of Stafford Crown Court, Michael Coleman, a BNP councillor and organiser of [...]