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 need a little bit of help this morning getting my head round some astonishing recent election results from mainland Europe.  If the same trends translate to our very own General Election in just a few weeks time, we could all be in for a nasty surprise.  Here’s a summary of what has been happening:
ITALY: The Northern League, [...]

…well, if you’re Dutch, that is. 
From the Telegraph:
The far-right politician Geert Wilders is poised to become the next Dutch prime minister after making major gains in regional elections.  Municipal results announced yesterday put his party in first place in Almere, a region near Amsterdam, and second in The Hague, one the country’s largest cities and the [...]

From the Independent: The far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders today won his appeal against the Government’s decision to ban him from entering Britain. The politician, who has been accused of Islamophobia, was told at the start of this year by the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that he would be refused entry should he attempt to [...]

From the Telegraph today:
To many abroad Mr Wilders, a Dutch MP, appears an old-fashioned racist whose views put him on a par with other far-Right politicians elsewhere in Europe. Yet in its first ever test of national electoral support among the normally tolerant Dutch, his anti-immigration Party for Freedom which he founded in 2006 won [...]

“We have profound commitment to freedom of speech”.
- David Miliband, commenting on Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who made the controversial ‘Fitna’ film about Islam, being turned away at Heathrow

“I shall probably go to Britain anyway on Thursday. Let us see if they put me in chains on arrival. It is an unbelievable decision made by a group of cowards.”
- Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who made the controversial ‘Fitna’ film about Islam, on being refused entry to the UK.  Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime [...]

Dear Geert Wilders,
What a sad day.  In amongst the predictions of a global meltdown and government’s fighting for their survival, it strikes me as a strange time to attack you – but attack you the Dutch government has.  Your film entitled Fitna (which can be viewed HERE) caused quite a stir in political and religious [...]

Dear readers,
My recent post on Geert Wilder’s film about Islam, called ‘Fitna’, caused quite a stir and got a lot of comments.  If you read the comments section for this post, you will notice that many people defended Islam on the grounds that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful (which they are) and that Wilder’s film merely uses selective evidence to [...]

Dear Geert Wilders,
No doubt you have noticed the panic in the eyes of many Dutch and European politicians at the release of your film on Islam.  Many authorities are bracing themselves for protests now that your film is available.  The question in many people’s minds is should the film have been released – and the [...]