Simon Heffer's Blog, page 50

How a once great party has become utterly pointless

Even before the brutal kicking the Coalition parties received in Thursday’s local elections, their leaders knew the damage would be severe.

Never have politicians been so shamefully detached from the real lives of voters

A poll this week by the Hansard Society showed the British public more disengaged from politics than at any time in the past decade.

The euro crisis is now deadly serious. Where are the leaders to save us? (and yes, I mean you Dave)

Europe has been on the verge of economic meltdown so often in the past few years that to warn of another one seems like the boy who cried wolf. However, the wolf is now very much in the sheepfold, and it is drooling.

Why the Tory grass roots have fallen out of love with Dave

The mood among Tory MPs towards their leaders has turned decidedly uglier since the Budget. Although supporters at the grass roots have been angry for months (outraged by what they see as a Conservative Prime Minister falling over himself to appease the junior Coalition partner Lib Dems at every turn),...

As France summarily kicks out two extremists, what Dave can learn from the ruthless and savvy Sarko

On Monday, President Sarkozy of France sent two Islamic extremists back to countries where they could have expected anything but a warm welcome.

It took Dave just ten days to REALLY toxify the Tories

The last ten days have been shocking for the Conservative Party. First the Budget misfired, particularly upsetting millions of pensioners.

Concreting our glorious countryside will please ONLY the property spivs who bankroll the Tories

Britain's economic future, says Planning Minister Greg Clark, depends on property developers being allowed to concrete over large parts of Britain.

Spare us politicians who lecture us about morality

The more George Osborne's Budget speech is dissected and picked over, the more damaging to him and the Coalition it seems to be.

This sop to lib dem prejudice

Anyone hearing just the last minute or so of George Osborne's speech yesterday, and especially his Churchillian rhetoric about Britain working its way back to prosperity, might have imagined they had missed a rousing, radical statement of intent about Britain's economic revival.

Road tolls: Yet another gratuitous exploitation of the motorist

One consequence of the chronic mismanagement of our economy since 1945 has been the punishment of the motorist.