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.

“Iain Dale reckons the biggest gaffes will likely be made by candidates on Twitter – what are the odds it’ll be me?”
- a tweet by Stuart MacLennan, the Scottish Labour candidate who has just been sacked by the party after posting numerous offensive tweets.   His comments include calling David Cameron a “t***” and Nick Clegg “a [...]

 Dear Kenny MacAskill,
It looks to me as though you, as Scottish Justice Secretary, have spotted a rather unusual loophole in laws designed to protect people from stalking and harrassment.  Ministers in Scotland are currently considering a new law which would help stop people stalking and harassing their victims by text or online.  Currently those who behave in [...]

Dear Alex Salmond,
Seeing as ‘broken promises’ are pretty much a given with most political parties these days, it is no surprise to see you clutching at straws to keep your political integrity in tact.  After the humiliating u-turn that you were forced into on abolishing council tax – your main election pledge – earlier this [...]

“Did you see all the Scottish flags at the Proms In The Park? It was like a Libyan runway.”
- Alasdair Ireland, of Kirn near Dunoon, quoted in The Glasgow Herald

Dear David Cameron,
No doubt you will have read last week about the damning MG Rover report and the job losses at Diageo, the drinks manufacturer.  I wonder what you made of these two incidents because, despite being in very different industries, their respective situations pose a huge challenge to any government.  The question that I [...]

Dear BrewDog,
It is surely no surprise that you have incurred the wrath of various organisations by producing what you claim is the UK’s strongest beer.  However, it is your justification for doing so that I find interesting.  Indeed, you insist that producing the strongest beer in the country will help tackle the increasingly problematic binge-drinking [...]

Dear Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Health Board,
Thank you for standing your ground.  It’s wonderful to see that in this day and age where people throw around lawsuits like they’re going out of fashion, you have decided that you’ve done nothing wrong by refusing fertility treatment to a lesbian couple.  Not only are you operating [...]

Dear Polly Toynbee,
To give your article the title of “Cardiac arrest in Glasgow” provides an appropriately gloomy feel to your piece in the Guardian today.  Labour are not extinct as the SNP would have us believe, but there are in a critical condition and need to be resuscitated.  Of course, you can’t resist the odd [...]

Like this one, for example:

…and this one, showing the 2005 result in Glasgow East…

…and this one showing the 2008 result…

There are three subsets of the population who will enjoy looking at these pictures:
1. The SNP
2. Anyone who hates Labour
3. The Conservative Party, who managed to maintain their share of the vote while Labour lost almost [...]