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 bring you greetings from a person who is called…a person who is sun-tanned…Barack Obama.  You wouldn’t believe it, but they go sunbathing at the beach together – his wife is also sun-tanned.”
- Silvio Berlusconi, who has again referred to Barack Obama as “suntanned” during a rally in Milan on Sunday.  He said his rapport with [...]

Dear Lefty bloggers,
Here is an excerpt from the Times newspaper yesterday morning, that I felt beared repeating:
“Anti-capitalist protesters brought Bank Holiday chaos to Brighton yesterday. Mounted police were forced to retreat as masked demonstrators among a 2,000-strong crowd hurled bricks and bottles. Several missiles were seen to hit police officers and their horses. Three officers [...]

Dear Shami Chakrabarti,
There are moments when I am happy to support your position on civil liberties and related issues, and no doubt other Conservatives will do the same.  However, your reaction to the new video footage of a police officer apparently hitting a G20 protestor was not only unhelpful but demonstrated an inability to understand [...]

Dear Liberal Conspiracy, Newer Labour, Pickled Politics, Lib Dem Voice, Bloggerheads, Quaequam and Harry’s Place,
Silence.  So peaceful, so still.  After your relentless heckling of right-wing bloggers, Conservative or otherwise, following the video footage of Ian Tomlinson, one can be forgiven for thinking that you were in some way interested in establishing the truth about what happened to him.  Indeed, a [...]

Dear Sunny Hundal,
So soon after my letter to you explaining your naivety over the police’s handling of the G20 protestors, the stakes have been raised with the release of a video showing the last moments of Ian Tomlinson, who tragically died of a heart attack at the protests.  The Guardian said on their website last [...]

If you are annoyed at how excited Gordon Brown and several others have been over the past few days at the G20 summit, remember that for some people several days of excitement can leave them needing hospital treatment.

Dear Gordon Brown,
Taking the British voter for idiots is something that you are remarkably calm about.  You seem to think that if you keep telling us something is great then we’ll believe it’s great and vote for you.  You evidently don’t feel a need to go any deeper than that and the G20 summit was [...]

Dear Sunny Hundal,
Along with Rowenna Davis, you have written an article for the Guardian claiming that the police mishandled the G20 protests yesterday and that they are to blame for the violence.  Having seen your headline I was intrigued as to what justification you had for this, and on reading through your article I can [...]

The best moment, though, was on the BBC Live Text updates that have been rolling throughout the day.  At 12:30pm, they said that “City workers have been leaning out of windows to wave £10 notes at G20 protesters on the streets below, the Press Association reports. Demonstrators responded with jeers and shouts, their reporter says.”  [...]