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.

“The prime minister is clear that we need to strengthen public confidence in the political system and reduce the cost of politics.”
- a Downing Street spokeswoman, responding to the news that MPs will get a rise of nearly £1,000 in their basic salary from 1st April 2010, taking their pay to £65,737 a year.   The 1.5% [...]

“When you’ve got the families of soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan saying they haven’t got the kit they need, collecting reports of funny lights seen in the sky can’t be seen as a priority”
- UFO expert Dr David Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, on the Ministry of Defence’s decision to [...]

“upsetting and scaremongering”
- how one of the 357 complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) described the government’s £6 million climate change TV campaign, in which they stated for the first time that scientific evidence has confirmed that climate change is man-made earlier this month.  Some of the complaints argued that there is no scientific evidence of [...]

As competitions go, I suspect that THIS could get out of control if it was run in the UK right now.  In fact, I think the Conservative Party should definitely give it a go!

“The result was lamentable. The underlying computer system was inadequately procured and tested, resulting in an unstable setup when it was switched on. [Department for Transport] staff do not trust the system which is hardly surprising when we hear that on occasion it took to issuing messages in German.”
- Edward Leigh, the Public Accounts Committee’s [...]