Battersea Banter

A bit of Banter from CCHQ. I can expect some more from CCHQ tomorrow with the pre-budget.

The Individual is Class Not The Other Way Around

HatTip form ToryBear markII KeepRightOnline.

It just shows, to the Conservative (unlike Labour) its the individual which counts not where, what or how you come from.

Eavesdrop of The Day

Two extremely important and famous MPs where talking today I got to have a wee listen in.

"So ******* do you smoke in your office?
Yes ******* it the only bloody place I can."

I was told by a Banter, who in the inside, that smoking MPs enjoy the freedom of there Westminster Palace Office's by having a cheecky fag.

This Weeks Top Reads

This is a new weekly up-date of the blog posts from the non big boy blogs, saying that I might pop in the odd post from the high flyers.

• Parlez_me_nTory talks about his rejection letter from CCHQ to be placed on the Parliamentary Candidates’ List.
• LazyHyena has on her (soon to be as big as ToryBear, Guido) great blog on the comments she gets from the older males in Westminster village.
• KeepRightOnline has the gossip of the CF Christmas party. Also talks about who has the biggest geekdom between him and ToryBear.
• Liberal Monkey write on (what realy is his blog now) Recess Monkey abour the to attempt out do Guido on the home reporters. Could this be the beginning of Monkey's gang Vs Guido's gang blog war?

It's The Banter Wot Won It -Col Bob edition

Tory Banter has been backing Col Bob Stuart to be selected as the Conservative candidate for Beckenham. You can read past posts HERE and HERE of our endorsement. ConservativeHome have confirmed he will be the man to fight the seat. Champagne corks will be flying at Banter HQ tonight as our man has got in. Top stuff Col Bob.

Montie 4 Salisbury

Like most in the Blogging world I would love to see Tim Montgomerie stand in his local Salisbury. So I will join Iain Dale, Guido and even Donal Blaney to call for Tim to stand. Do it Tim!

Endorsements for Col Bob Stuart

We at ToryBanter the other day came out to endorse Col Bob Stuart. Today is the selection meeting for the new PPC in Beckenham.

With great joy it is good to see via the ConservativeHome threds on the post about the meeting that Col Bob is the favorite to win. We hope so becose him becoming a PPC and even MP is only a good thing for the party. If he dose not get in I know the others will make excellent PPC's and MP's.

We will let you know the result as soon as Tim (or Eric) Tweet it.

Mr Speaker Quote of The Day

From Mr Speakers Guide To Under Standing Women in 1986.

His chat up line 'If you're free later maybe we could go back to your place and name your breasts'.

Mr and Mrs Speaker the Far Leftist Couple

On the tube yesterday I was reading the Standard I found the piece on Mrs Speaker (Sally Bercow). She, in this fantastic show of PR, tells the new free Standard that she was a drinker, shagger and all round lady of the night. I quote from the papper "Mrs Bercow confessed to casual sexual encounters fuelled by alcohol. "Someone would send a drink over and I'd think, why not, and we'd go home together."  Mrs Speaker is, as you will know, a Labour hack she running for council and wishing to run for parliament. She left the Conservatives in the 90's.

She has a dig at DC by saying he's a "an archetypal Tory". I can see why her and Mr Speaker don't like the Liberal Conservative leader as her and her husband are not Conservatives but fer leftightsie, big goverment types.

Mr Speaker was (as Donal Blarney writes) Secretary of its Immigration and Repatriation Committee for the Conservative Monday Club. For those of you who don't know about the Conservative Monday Club the only thing Conservative about the club is the word Conservative. Around the time Mr Speaker was the Conservative Monday Club's Secretary of its Immigration and Repatriation Committee the club left its Conservative links behind and became a anti-immigration club who made "distasteful" racist  remarks. The group at the time of Mr Speaker had strong links with the National Front and today it's more of a BNP group than a Conservative group.

Mr Speaker meet his wife when he was chair, and she a member, of the Federation of Conservative Students. This is a group who was disbanded by Norman Tebbit. It has a strong non conservative  authoritarians views. Like: nationalism, an isolationist posture, opposition to immigration, scepticism about liberal economics, all there view are not conservative but a lefty. The Aberystwyth Uni branch would go out in Springbok jerseys (during apartheid), racially abused ethnic minoritys and organised a night out in Aberystwyth town centre to celebrate the anniversary of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Famously the leading national members would wear "Hang Nelson Mandela" T-shirts.

Mrs Speaker left the party and wen't over to Labour where she is now. It is said that Mr Speaker would of gone too but at the time he was going up the greasy pole as he was a Conservative councillor and Parliamentary candidate. He never fitted in with the Party and the Parties views and when the Party adopted a Liberal Conservative leader he almost fled with Quentin Davies to the Labour Party. He did not as he knew that the next Speaker would have to be a Conservative and he was going all the way to the top of the greasy pole.

Labour got him in as Speaker not becose he was a saint of expense scandal but becose he was one of there own. Far from being a saint he was top of league table of highest-claiming members of the House of Commons for almost all years he been in HoC and in most years he was in the top 3 highest-claiming members and joint first position on one year. He is guilty of fraud by flipping his second home.

His short time as Speaker there has been no real reform and he has spent £45,581.00 of taxpayers money refurbishing his apartment even after the last Mr Speaker spent £70,000.00 on refurbishing it.

Like Mr Speaker's Monday Club the only thing this former Conservative MP has in common with the Conservative Party is the name. His beliefs are from the left and his big government, isolationist, anti-liberal economics believes have more in common with his freand (who voted him as speaker) in the Labour Party than Conservatives and when the General Election comes about he be up against with some one who more in common with the Conservatives than he dose. Tory Banter will be watching with interest and hope.

Labour Are A Class Act

To day Gordon Brown had a go at DC for going to Eton. This I exspect will be the way Labour will run the election. This,so called, 'toff bashing' I never understood. As a Conservative I alway believe it dose not matter on race, religion, class or what school you wen't to just on the individual. So if you look at the two individual David Cameron and Gordon Brown I know which individual will be the best PM with out seeing which school or religion they wen't to or are.

It aways got me when the Labours extremist left try to toff bash when there hero is that Westminster School old boy, the 2nd Viscount Stansgate aka. Tony Benn. This is not the only example of toff, toff bashers.

In Crewe I was in a hotel with the Labour mob. The night of the toff bashing stunt I had the drink with the face of the stunt Alex Norris who is Labours agent in Nottingham. He, as reported at the time, wen't to Manchester Grammar. We had a good chat about cricket and the difference between being a members of the MMC member of Lanchester CC. Also how his tails suit was incomplete without a waistcoat, he new how to were one properly he told me. It just shows that Labour and the Conservatives are as well educated as each other, it just the Conservatives are more open then Labour.

Here a list of the current members of the Cabinet and there private fee paying school days:

Harriet Harman-St Paul's Girls' School.
Jack Strew-Brentwood School.
Hilary Benn-Westminster Under School Prep school then Holland Park School (The Socialist Eton).
Alistair Darling-Loretto School.
David Miliband -Educated in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ed Balls-Nottingham High School.
Shaun Woodward-Bristol Grammar School.
Tessa Jowell-St Margaret's School for Girls.
Jim Murphy-Educated in South African after famly fled there during apartheid.
Lord Adonis-Kingham Hill School.
Peter Hain-Pretoria Boys High School.

This is not the politics of envy but the politics of hypocrites.

Conkers To The Authoritarian Health & Safety

I always been one for natural selection. Thoughs who believe in the authoritarian Health and Safety will look at the Darwin Awards and see the need for Health and Safety where I am one who think it shows why we don't need H&S. This authoritarian approach to life is why I become a Tory, to help get ride of it and bring in personal responsibility. This is a speach DC made about H&S:

"When children are made to wear goggles by their head teacher to play conkers.

When trainee hairdressers are not allowed scissors in the classroom. I want to see if we can extend this sort of legal protection for all people acting in good faith - especially public service professionals. When office workers are banned from moving a chair without expert supervision. When staff at a railway station don't help a young mum carry her baby son's buggy because they are not insured. When village fetes are cancelled because residents can't face jumping through all the bureaucratic hoops. It is clear that what began as a noble intention to protect people from harm has mutated into a stultifying blanket of bureaucracy, suspicion and fear that has saturated our country, covering the actions of millions of individuals as they go about their daily lives."

The rest can be read Here.
 
I say good on DC for going for a real Conservative issow and attacking the ever growing H&S industry. Conkers to you if you like Health and Safety.

Endorsing A Candidate For Beckenham

ToryBanter.co.uk is backing Col Bob Stewart to become the PPC for Beckenham.

He was commander of British forces in Bosnia and came to the candidates’ list after David Cameron re-opened it. He a passionate speacker who knows what to be done with the military and will be a huge asset to Fox and the MOD. I know he will be real consistency MP doing all he can for the people if/who elect him with military efficiency.

ToryBanter saw him speak at UKNDA (who he done a lot of work for) event at conference. It was a great speach and made all think, it was the speach of the conference.

Why We Need To Call Down The Political Global Warming Debate

The problem with Climate Change, Global Warming etc it's turning into a political issue. I can hear you all shouting from West London over your copies of the Independent that of course Climate Change is a political issue. Well it's not it is a Scientific toppic not an issue.

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Where ever I you look in the world Climate Change is becoming a line in the sand for which political clicks you belong to. If you look at what going in Australia where its braking up there great Liberal Party. It should not and by doing so is disturbing scientific debate.

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Those on the left, in particular the media (Indy and Guardian) have first closed the toppic and second turned it into a Left Vs Right fight. This is through pseudoscience being preached by the lefty politicians,activists and the media which has gone on for years/decades. Global Warming has been simplified so much the facts of Golbal Warming are false and misleading. 

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The biggest example of this is 'an inconvenient truth' where scientist condemn the accessories of the multi-million pond hollywood franchise. The facts have been distorted due to not understanding the infomation. To add on to the distrust people have of the pseudoscience Global Warming . The authoritarian attitude over recycling, transport and the way we live our life's the left put on people is turning them aginst Global Warming theory.

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Now the right have started useing the pseudoscience in a counter debate. Both sides are simplifying the highly completed scientific debate into simple inaccurate fact basted debate which is taken over from the science. Politician from all sides are picking choosing information for there needs.

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Politician need to take a step back. Activists need to stop there terrorist style methods. The politicization of the Global Warming dose not help the research. Let them advice the politicians of the research so they can put in place realistic policy which will not harm people's way of life which will help economic growth and is realistically feasible and is made up of results from a balinese scientific research.

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Politicization of  Global Warming is not helping. It's making bias science which is drawing political lines which don't need to be drawn. Action on global warming should come after the advice from all sides of scientific debate and after the research by scientists (from all relevant fields and expertise) but not from the politicians, media or activists.

No News Sunday

Sorry for the lack of rolling political news but there has not been much and what has been said I would of said here. I have written a couple of blog post this weekend but I will save them for the week. 

So here the Sunday Funny Video. This week our freand John Prescott, who I'm still waiting to here from.

Lord Sugarpuff of TV Land Maiden Speech

My favourite newspaper jorno is Ann Treneman I have to admit her article is the first thing I turn to.

Her Sketch of Lord Sugarpuff of TV-Land maiden speech is just a must read!

It was a wonderful, cringe-making, don’t-you-dare-switch-channels moment. Lord Sugarpuff of TV-Land was making his maiden speech. He had positioned himself directly behind Lord Mandelson who, as a result, was craning his head up and around. This was rubbernecking in every sense.

The speech was all about Lord Sugarpuff, who didn’t get where he is today — which is on the telly — by being modest. It was a sort of I Did It My Way and I Will Survive all wrapped into one long rags-to-riches boast. It was not so much a speech as karaoke.


Read the rest of it HERE

Up-Date:
You can watch the speech for yourselves HERE it show how politics and business is not necessary in-transferable.

My Bet With Two Jags- Facebook Message

As I have not had a response from Mr Prescott over Twitter I have just tried to get hold of him over facebook with this message:

Transcript of the message is:

Dear John,

I hope you are well. I tried to get hold of you on Twitter about a little bet (blogged about it here http://twe.ly/HNb).

I will say it again here on facebook. The bet is: if the Conservatives win the next general election you will have to buy me four months worth of beer. If Labour stay in power for another term I will buy you four months worth of beer (If you saty in with a hung Parliament you win). I do not believe the Conservatives have it in the bag nor do I think Labour will hang on, it's all to play for.

So what is it going to be John? Are you going to put your money where your mouth is? Or do have you joind the rest of Labour and giving up hope and falling foul of defeatism?

I hope John will writes back soon so we can find out if he game or if he has falling foul of defeatism. Only time (and john) will tell  if he is backing Labour to win.

Facebook Banter of The Day

Just spotted this on Facebook from Cameron's man in Madrid. Well done Ben for being the first Facebook Banter of The Day!

I think that is a good idea. I know a couple of people at my house won't see the difference between rant day and a normal day.

His Dark Lord Series - Two (Rap Edition)

Sorry for the lack of Bloging it's becose of the lack of interweb, but I have gat a new hub so we are back on line. So as a humble apology I have a good little rap video which goes with this weeks His Dark Lord Series. It's about a open letter rap to Mandelson about the Digital Economy Bill.



HatTip Guido Fawkes and from the rap star himself Dan Bull.

Standing Up Against Labour Spin

Yesterday, as most of you will know, my freand ToryBear  criticized Barnsley Councillor Tim Cheetham for a bad taste, offensive joke which Labour's pin-up girl Ellie Gellard thought it was so funny she forwould it on to all on the twitter world. ToryBear and others ask her (and Tim) to apologize for the Joke. As Labour can not say sorry, or indeed except responsibility for the wrong doing. No such apology came from Tim or pin-up girl Ellie.By the way when was the last time a labour ministers except responsibility and resigned for sleeze, expenses fiddling or law braking?

Labour Twitter Spin Dr Kerry McCarthy MP with ToryBear

When Labour gets in a mess they alway fall back on the spin and like a episode of The Thick Of It, Labour tryed to spin the story into a story of 'tory bullying' 'ToryBear the sexist'. Kerry McCarthy MP come in, who is Labours 'Twitter Tsar' so is in charge of spinning Labour's stories onTwitter. She deflected the story from being Labours Pin-up girl wishes a frail old woman, who a hero to many to die to Tories gang up and pick on sweet innocent girl. Today  I can imagine pin-up girl Ellie is sitting with Labour's real  Malcolm Tucker and trying there best to spin this story away.

I think the next way Labour will try to spin this is by saying this is only a twitter joke nothing more than Frankie Boyle would say. Difference between Cllr Tim Cheetham and Frankie Boyle is Frankie Boyle is a deliberately controversial comedian and Cllr Tim Cheetham is a Labour Councillor.This story just show the argence of Labour and the how they just don't say sorry. This would of been over in a second before the blog posts if they just said sorry that was in ill taste.

Iraq War Inquiry Inspired By The Bow Group

The media friendly Iraq War Inquiry logo looks like it has been coppid  from the Bow Group. I guess it is understandable, they would won't to be seen to be trusted and are of high intellectual ability. So they send out subliminal messages to the press pack by associate them selfs with that oldest of Tory thinktanks The Bow Group.

Iraq War Inquiry Logo (this photo is knick of BBC iplay and looks more blue than it dose here)

The Bow Group Logo

I tell you Abercorn and Sullivan are secretly behind the hole War!