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.

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 [...]

“It didn’t happen a lot, I was much more angry with him about the fact that we had not properly checked the expense claim than I was about the film.”
- Jacqui Smith, former Home Secretary, who has revealed that she and her husband argued about his use of pornography before her expenses claim for two blue [...]

“Her final humiliation came at the hands of her husband”
- Iain Dale, discussing Jacqui Smith’s decision to quit as Home Secretary (full post HERE)

Dear Boris Johnson,
Now that you have entered your second year as London Mayor, your performance will come under even greater scrutiny.  However, it is your stance on free speech which merits as much attention as anything that you have achieved thus far as Mayor.  As you rightly said in your Sunday Telegraph column, the idea [...]

“It says more about them than it says about me.”
- Michael Savage, a US radio talk show host, reacting to the government’s decision to ban him from entering the UK.  He told his radio audience that he was intending to sue Jacqui Smith, who he described as the “lunatic … Home Secretary of England”.  ”To link [...]

“It’s believed that two adult features went on the bill by mistake”
- how sources described the fact that in Jacqui’s Smith Commons expenses for last June, claims were submitted for two adult films that were ordered at home by her husband while she was away.  Jacqui Smith has apologised, saying in a statement that the claim had been [...]

So, let me just clarify something – we want hateful, anti-British Muslims to stay IN this country, but we want to keep people like Geert Wilders OUT ?
I would now like to repeat the reasons offered by the Home Office as to why Geert Wilders was kept out, but this time substitute out any reference to [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Desperate as you are to distract everyone from your dishonest and controversial claims for the Second Homes Allowance that MPs enjoy so readily, choosing to focus on domestic violence was wise enough seeing as the issue is incredibly serious and warrants attention.  What it does not warrant, however, is half-baked jotted-on-the-back-of-a-beermat policies that [...]

“What I want is to safeguard the world-leading position that we have in the use of DNA”
- Jacqui Smith, who has identified the only thing that Britain is currently better than the rest of the world: criminalising innocent people

“I believe there is a demand, now, for [ID] cards – and as I go round the country I regularly have people coming up to me and saying they don’t want to wait that long.”
- Jacqui Smith, who would evidently prefer to rely on ridiculous anecdotes than any hard evidence to show support for ID [...]

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, [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
You want to see “every child living their lives free from fear.”  Hard to disagree with your sentiment, although your policy is likely to suffer from the law of unintended consequences.  Allowing parents to ask if someone close to their family is a sex offender has an appealing simplicity to it and thankfully falls short of [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
How unbelievably arrogant of you.  Labour’s ability to communicate even the most simple message is embarrassingly poor at the moment, but rather than blame yourself you’ve decided to blame the media for making errors in reporting the government’s plans to make perpetrators of knife crime visit hospitals.  I would feel a lot happier [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Everyone knew it at the time, and just a few days later we have the evidence to prove it.  On the 30th of March this year, you told the BBC that ”it’s fundamentally important that we listen”.  On the 2nd of May, Uncle Gordon said that ”my job is to listen and to lead” following Labour’s double [...]

“I do agree with him that it’s fundamentally important that we listen to the British people unless we know that they won’t agree with us, the Lisbon Treaty being a prime example, in which case we are perfectly entitled to ignore them and push our own agenda forward”
- Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, responding to Health [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Your performance as Home Secretary has left a lot to be desired.  I’m not sure how much control you have over your job, seeing as Uncle Gordon seems to want to run everyone else’s department in addition to being PM, but if you do have any control then I suggest you stand firm [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Your policies really are a bit naff, aren’t they!  After the fiasco over police pay, you were probably relishing the chance to get into your stride with an announcement for a new immigrant tax to help pay for public services.  Not exactly very Labour-esque, is it!  You and Gordon are obviously a little [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
You really are having a bad time, aren’t you.  As if the sad situation about police pay wasn’t enough to damage your reputation, I know read that police numbers are falling at their fastest rate in seven years.
Apparently there is still money coming into to police forces around the country, but the Government [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Just like David Miliband, it is sometimes so painful to watch your miserable performance in a senior Cabinet position that I almost feel guilty following your work.  Admittedly watching the Labour government fall apart does bring a little smirk to my face on occasion but the row over the pay increase for police officers [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
Just give it a rest, will you?  Honestly.  Doesn’t the sheer volume of opposition to your proposals to increase the detention limit for terrorist suspects, including from within your own party, tell you something?
If you could show the public independent evidence that a possible conviction or case against an individual (or better still, [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
I hope that common sense prevails again on this stupid argument about legalising drugs, which got even more backing today from a former chief inspector of prisons.
The argument seems to be this: smoking and alcohol kill lots of people, most other drugs don’t kill lots of people, so let’s legalise all drugs because [...]

Dear Jacqui Smith,
With the power of the media these days, there are countless examples every year of people being suspected of wrongdoing before they’ve even been charged with any offence.  Celebrities often fall victim to such attacks, and even Madeleine McCann’s parents have been judged to some extent before any evidence has been brought before [...]