ConservativeHome founder Tim Montgomerie resigns from Conservative Party

The founder of ConservativeHome and lifelong member of the Conservative Party, Tim Montgomerie, has resigned from the party with a scathing attack on David Cameron.

Cameron's unswerving support for the EU along with out of control immigration and soaring national debt is the straw that broke the camel's back and prompted Montgomerie to cancel his membership of 28 years.

It remains the greatest source of social misery on the continent — requiring intense austerity in countries such as Greece and causing terrible youth unemployment across southern Europe from which millions will suffer lifelong scars.

Montgomerie isn't planning on joining another party just yet but he's talking the talk and walking the walk of a UKIPper at the moment. Who knows what will happen in the near future?

ConHome goes Yes Prime Minister on Cameron

This might only be a spoof but someone at ConHome has Cowardly Cameron pretty much summed up ...

Memo

From: The Political Adviser to the Prime Minister

To: The Prime Minister

Date: 20/1/13

Confidential

EU Strategy

You asked for a brief summary of your EU strategy in advance of your speech later this week.

• The promise of an In/Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

• The pledge may not prevent UKIP from making advances in this year's County Council elections or indeed next year's European ones.  However, it will, in the different circumstances of the 2015 general election, help to squeeze UKIP's vote - since you will be able to argue that all voters will achieve by voting UKIP is to let Miliband, who is opposed to a referendum, into Downing Street.

• It may be that the next election does not return a Conservative majority in the Commons, but that you none the less continue as Prime Minister of a Coalition Government.  If this Coalition contains, as now, the Liberal Democrats, you will be in a position either to drop the referendum guarantee as part of a new Coalition Agreement if you wish, or to proceed with it if you wish and if our partners agree.

• However, it may be that the next election does indeed return a Conservative Commons majority, or you lead a Conservative minority Government - in which case a renegotiation can proceed.  We are agreed that it would be wiser to dine a la carte than table d'hote from the menu drawn up by Fresh Start and others, and that it is wise, given present uncertainties, not to be too specific about how much renegotiation you intend.

• The Cabinet has already been informed that its members will be required to support a Yes vote in the event of an In/Out referendum: I see that James Forsyth has reported this in the Mail on Sunday today.  As we correctly anticipated, Cabinet members opposed to Britain's EU membership will have calculated that the referendum is a long way away - indeed, that it may not happen - and thus will not resign, at least before the next election.

• This returns us to the subject of renegotiation.  Essentially, the main factors you will want to bear in mind in due course is a) How much our EU partners, in particular the German Government, want to be helpful; and b) How hard you wish to push in order to maximise your chances of winning the support of Euro-sceptic Cabinet members, MPs and party members.  As I say, we should wish at this stage to maintain maximum flexibility.

• It may of be that in these circumstances our EU partners do not want to be helpful, and that you will have no particular wish to push them hard.  However, it is likely that they will wish to give you some help if - as is the case - you maintain your position of support for Britain's EU membership.  You will then be able to return to Britain after the renegotiation claiming "game, set and match" (drawing on the precedent set after Maastricht).

• It may be that members of the Cabinet resign before the referendum which follows, in order to campaign for a No vote - joining many MPs and party members in so doing.  However, you will rightly be able to maintain that you have consistently supported Britain's EU membership, and we can be confident that you will be joined on the campaign trail by the leaders of Britain's other two main parties.

• As agreed, it is likely that Britain, without a strong business lobby for No, will vote to continue to maintain its EU membership: you will have seen that the polls are turning round already.  As also agreed, the depature from Cabinet of opponents of Britain's membership would leave you in a stronger position.  And as also agreed, the departure altogether of MPs and party members opposed to membership would not be without its benefits.

• After all, your mission since you first became party leader in 2005 has been to modernise the Conservative Party.  It is fair to say that there is a marked crossover between those MPs and party members who wish to see Britain leave the EU and those MPs and party members who have proved an obstacle to the modernisation project.  Their humbling would speed the emergence of the New Model Conservative Party of which we have long dreamed.

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Another Tory defection: Janice Small

Former Conservative PPC for Batley & Spen in Yorkshire, Janice Small, has defected to UKIP.

UKIP didn't field a candidate against her in the last election because she was deemed to be sufficiently eurosceptic to be given a free run against the europhile Labour candidate.

Small says that she was taken in by David Camoron's claims to be eurosceptic and has since realised that actually he was a raging europhile all along so she has left the Conservative & _٨^European Unionist Party and joined UKIP.

Small is also a writer on Con Home (although I suspect not for much longer) and a director of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform (again, I suspect not for much longer).

How's that votey changey thing going for ya?

So, anyone wondering what rank and file Tories think of Cast Iron Dave's premature capitulation on the EU budget and breaking yet another promise to hold a referendum on EU treaties?

ConservativeHome has the answer ...

Sarah Palin's amusing anti-Obama "how's that hopey changey thing going for ya?" quip was well received by ConservativeHome who called her the "Queen of America's anti-government protesters".

Does anyone know how that "votey changey thing" is going for the Tories?

Osborne’s speech, even though it was spoken on the floor of the House, seemed aimed at pleasing the Conservative Party alone. When he sat down, many Tory back-benchers rose to their feet and cheered and I suddenly felt rather ashamed that I voted Tory at the last election.
- Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph's chief political commentator

when Michael Gove backed out of his promise to come and apologise to the parents, pupils and staff he had so badly let down, I felt ashamed to be a Conservative
- Councillor Elaine Costigan, Sandwell MBC

But, after today, I will, briefly, but for the first time since I joined, be ashamed to call myself a Conservative.
- Alan William Collins, Conservative blogger and party activist

It's going well then ...

Another cast iron guarantee from Devious Dave

According to ConservativeHome, "Cast Iron" Dave has given a cast iron guarantee that while he is Prime Minister the UK will never join the Euro.

Let's hope this cast iron guarantee is more of a cast iron guarantee than the cast iron guarantee that we'd get a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Camoron breaks his referendum promise

Conservative Home has confirmed what we've been saying along - the Tories will not hold the referendum they promised on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution.

Tim Montgomerie has tried to spin David Camoron's treachery claiming that the last line of his cast-iron guarantee to hold a referendum means that no promise is being broken:

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum

Montgomerie emphasises the word "ratified" because that is apparently the reason why promising a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution isn't really a promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution. It means that the bit before ...

Today, I will give this cast-iron guarantee: If I become PM a Conservative government will hold a referendum on any EU treaty that emerges from these negotiations.

... isn't a "cast-iron guarantee" to hold a referendum on the EU treaty that emerged from the negotiations - namely the Lisbon Treaty.

Montgomerie then goes on to say that David Camoron, having lied to his party, the Sun and the electorate by saying that he will hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution when he has no intention of doing so, "deserves the continuing support of eurosceptics". On what basis?

The next Conservative government will seek a "manifesto mandate" for renegotiation

And this shows how findamentally dishonest David Camoron, the Tories and Conservative Home are. When the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution comes into force it is not possible to renegotiate our relationship with the European Empire.

The British government will not be able to repatriate powers from the European Empire without the unanimous agreement of every member state.

The Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution introduces qualified majority voting - where we no longer have a veto - for a huge amount of policy areas.

The Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution is not a menu from which we can pick and choose the least damaging and costly clauses - it replaces the Treaty of Rome, the treaty that established the EEC (now the EU). It would be like Puerto Rico joining the United States and picking only half od the US constitution.

The only way to renegotiate our relationship with the European Empire is to leave.

But even if David "I don’t agree Britain would be better off by leaving the European Union" Camoron was forced into holding a referendum on leaving the European Empire it would still require the unanimous agreement of all member states before we could leave following a two year "cooling off period".

In August 2007, David Camoron told the Shropshire Star:

I don’t agree Britain would be better off by leaving the European Union. Instead, we need to work within the EU to fight for change but on the question of referendums, I do want to see one on the EU Treaty because that’s what everyone was promised. The Conservative Party is campaigning very hard on just this. Other European leaders say the latest EU Treaty is a return of the constitution in all but name so whether or not he keeps the promise to hold the referendum is a real test for Gordon Brown. It will show whether he means what he says when he talks about restoring trust in government, and involving people more in decisions.

Hoisted by his own petard. David Camoron promised a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constiution and he has renaged on that promise. This was a real test for the man widely expected to be prime minister next year and he failed. In his own words, it shows that he doesn't mean what he says about restoring trust in government and involving people more in decisions.

David Camoron is a fundamentally dishonest man, as is the Conservative and European Unionist party he leads. The vast majority of the Tory membership is opposed to the Lisbon treaty/EU Constitution, they are opposed to the European Empire and the wholesale transfer of our sovereignty to unelected eurocrats on the continent but they have been betrayed by their leader and his euofederalist colleagues.

But don't have too much sympathy for the eurosceptic Tories who have lost their party to eurofederalist traitors - they have allowed it to happen and they allow it continue happening by continuing to support the party that has betrayed them. And people like Tim Montgomerie - collaborators with, and apologists for, the eurofederalist leadership - deserve no sympathy at all for losing the party they have worked so hard for. They sense that power is within their grasp and even though their party no longer represents their views, they will happily put their principles to one side and betray their country to be part of it.

If the Conservative Party no longer represents your views (how could it?) then you have two options. You can either continue to support and vote for the Tories and allow yourself to be part of David Camoron's eurofederalist mandate or you can vote for a party that does represent your views, one that will withdraw this once great nation from the European Empire. That party is, of course, UKIP.

Don't let yourself be conned into believing that you have to vote Conservative to stop Liebour or the Lib Dims from getting into power - why vote for someone you don't want to keep out someone else you don't want? Lesser of two evils? Don't make me laugh - there's barely a cigarette paper between Liebour and the Tories. David Camoron will never renegotiate our relationship with his beloved European Empire, the Tory policy of "reform from within" is a falacy.

Vote Conservative, get Brussels. Vote UKIP, get our country back.

64% of Tories would vote for Farage

ConservativeHome is doing such a wonderful job of promoting Nigel Farage's election campaign and showing the huge gulf in the Tory Party caused by the European Empire and UKIP.

No need to spend a fortune on a polling company to find out how many Tories are intending to vote for Farage, ConservativeHome have already got the answer - 64%!


The Tories are more split than ever under the expert leadership of David Camoron. Keep up the good work Dave.

What's dishonest about fighting fraud and incompetence?

Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome is back-pedalling over his public support for Nigel Farage's general election campaign against the Tory Speaker, John Bercow. Presumably someone at CCHQ reminded him of their special relationship and what happens to Conservative Party members that suggest UKIP aren't the spawn of satan.

Tim thinks that Farage is dishonest because he stood for re-election as an MEP 2 months ago and is now standing for election to Westminster. He contrasts this with 3 Tory MEPs who didn't stand for re-election because they were going to stand for election as an MP.

Firstly, you don't vote for a person in EU elections, you vote for a party. People in the South West euroregion that Farage represents voted for UKIP, not for Nigel Farage.

Secondly, Bercow was elected Speaker on 22nd June and the EU election was on 4th June. Farage is standing against Bercow because of his expenses fiddles and failure to do anything as Speaker to improve the reputation of propriety of the House of Commons. How could he have known back in April when the nominations for the EU elections had to be in, that Bercow would be elected Speaker and be crap at the job?

Interesting that there was no suggestion a fortnight ago on ConservativeHome that Councillor Denise Headley is in any way dishonest for being elected a Liebour councillor and then defecting to the Tories. Surely that's a little more "dishonest" than an MEP standing for election as an MP with the intention of unseating the crooked and ineffectual incumbent?

Camoron ignores 77% of members on EU

A poll by ConservativeHome shows that 77% of Tories think Tory MPs and PPCs should be able to sign up to the Better Off Out campaign.

David Camoron has banned Tories from publicly opposing the UK's membership of the European Empire via the Better Off Out campaign. Supporters of Better Off Out are not allowed to be PPCs, MPs that sign the Better Off Out pledge face losing the Tory whip and any MP who was already a signatory before the ban was introduced is banned from sitting on the front bench.

Camoron will not tolerate open euroscepticism in the Conswervative Party, all MPs must get behind his eurofederalist ideals.

If Camoron is prepared to ignore 77% of his own membership then why should we believe that he will listen to the electorate?

Guido, Hitchens and Tebbit are wrong ...

... and Wheeler and 19% of the electorate. According to ConservativeHome they are, anyway.

The first prominent Tory to tell people not to vote Tory was Stuart Wheeler who not only told people to vote UKIP instead but donated £100k to the election effort at the same time.

Then Lord Tebbit told people not to vote for the LibLabCon in what is widely accepted to be a thinly veiled message to vote UKIP.

Next up is blogging legend, Guido Fawkes, who has encouraged right wingers (ie. Tories) to vote UKIP. Strangely, he also suggested wasting votes on the eurofederalist Greens and Libertas if you're left wing or centrist which is a shame because UKIP is a centre-right party but a positive message still from Guido.

Peter Hitchens, the Daily Mail's attack dog, has also told people not to vote Tory.

And finally there's the electorate, which Conservative Home seems to hold in as much contempt as the party it supports. Currently the polls have UKIP on 19%, the same level of support as Liebour and the Lib Dims. One fifth of the electorate are wrong? I don't think so.

Voters have a simple choice when they go to the polls on June the 4th - they can vote for the LibLabCon or the Greens or Libertas and they'll be voting for ever-closer political union, to continue wasting £106k per second on the EU, for 75% of our laws being made by the EU and to hand over what's left of our tattered sovereignty to the European Empire. Or they can vote for UKIP, a vote to withdraw from the political union with the EU, to retain a free trade agreement like the one that this country voted for in the 1975 referendum and to return control of our country back to our own parliament.

The Tories say they want to reform the European Empire from the inside but we all know that it is unreformable. The only question that remains is do you want more or less of the EU? If you want to lose your country to the European Empire then vote for the Tories, if you want your children to grow up British/English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish (or Gibraltarian of course) then you have to vote for UKIP. Nobidy else is committed to ending our damaging relationship with the European Empire.

Welcome to Planet Labour

The LabourList website is being relaunched with a new design. Don't worry though, it's still a waste of bandwidth populated by the same tired old sycophant party officials, failed politicians and corrupt communists.

Of course, with the website being hosted on Planet Labour, you can expect the usual bizarre version of reality that Labour supporters and politicians inhabit. There are some amusing comments on the home page, such as:

This is a challenging but exciting time for Labour. Twelve years in office have brought huge advances to Britain, and we continue to be the party of ideas and innovation.

... and ...

The distinction between the major parties has rarely been clearer

The blogroll in particular made me laugh. There's the "A-List" of blogs, a small selection of other sycophant Labour-supporting blogs and the "Z-List" of blogs, comprising the two most popular blogs in the UK - Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes - and ConservativeHome, the Tory grassroots website that the likes of LabourList can only look at with envy.

As well as the entertaining alternate reality stuff, there's a bit of naughtiness - a link to FixMyStreet in amongst other Labour buttons with the clear implication that the site, which was set up by the same charity behind the petitions.pm.gov.uk website, is a Labour initiative.

We're under no illusions as to how popular Bloggers4UKIP is likely to be - UKIP is a minor party and we wouldn't expect to compete directly with the likes of ConservativeHome but if the best "grass roots" website the Labour Party can come up is LabourList then we're pretty happy with what we've managed to achieve in our spare time with a budget of zero and without any help from UKIP.

Just a quick note to LabourList before I finish though: ministers and paid employees aren't "grass roots". Ordinary members giving up their spare time without being paid or otherwise rewarded - like us here at Bloggers4UKIP - are the grass roots of a party.