Over @ PJM of course. Head over and read about how it all went down.

The Guardian has written two high pieces on the Young Britons Foundation, run by my friend Donal Blaney. They call their weekends Tory Madrasa and the members radicalised Conservatives. The Guardian talks as if both of these things are a bad thing. The comments obviously hilarious in a Guardian way.

Politeia has an amusing take on it replete with an appropriate musical number.

Over at Pajamas Media I try to get my head round the fact that the Conservatives are so close to losing to Gordon Brown. A hung parliament with such an unpopular government and an economy is just beyond belief. Then again I predicted that he would not cut it soon after he was elected leader and predicted a hung parliament over two years ago. Please head over and take a look, leave you comments and see if you can explain to yanks what the hell is going on.

NB: I predicted a hung parliament since not long after Cameron was elected leader. He just does not have the stuff to impress the country.

Seats: Con 286, to Labour 273

UKIP is really feeling their power now that the Conservatives are so wonky. Farage really has a chance to beat Bercow (the Speaker) and become an MP.

Dr Eamonn Butler, of the Adam Smith Institute, has a new book. Its sets out a great vision for fixing the mess the UK is in right now.

David Cameron continues to watch the Tories plummet in the polls, now down to 2%. His party is losing to Labour. It would be hilarious if it were not so depressing. I predicted he would bollox it up fairly soon after he got the leadership. His arrogance and inability to connect with the electorate are what has gotten them into this mess.

If he blows this it will be the ultimate political: fail. I feel for my Conservative friends and those who live in the UK.

The UK who establishment, including disgracefully, Conservatives, all shilled and pulled for Obama to win the Presidency. Well its seems Obama is backing Argentina over the UK in their latest dispute. All I can think of is karma. The British establishment pushed and wanted us to be stuck with an inexperienced socialist President.

Obviously I hope the UK sees off this latest idiocy from Argentina. That said a bit of sweating thanks to their “hero” Obama is most amusing to watch.

Update: Its gets funnier Camoron is using former Obama advisors to help his dire campaign.

Latest piece by me on PJM… teflon Blair?

Watching him tangle with Tim Yeo Yeo Yeo is most amusing.

Morality is personal. There is no such thing as collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom. To talk of social justice, social responsibility, a new world order, may be easy and make us feel good, but it does not absolve each of us from personal responsibility.

More over @ Devil’s Kitchen

A Government tick box; approach to describing peoples ethnicity is creating resentment among white working class people and driving then towards supporting extremist groups, a report says today.

How can I tell? I read the Conservative blogs quite a bit and there is now a new trend of comparing UKIP to the BNP. Some go as far as to suggest something idiotic like THE ALMOST-ACCEPTABLE FACE OF THE BNP? While others like the more subtle Iain Dale are merely suggesting that they are not as libertarian as they claim because of proposed burka ban.

They want to ban the burka so now they are neo-Nazis (like the BNP)? Is this the tactic against UKIP in the next election? This is the second Tory site I can see that is slandering UKIP by calling them just a slightly more acceptable BNP. This is utter bollocks and bodes badly for the Conservative Party.

So I guess they think Sarkozy is a neo-Nazi as well since he banned the burka in France.

Its clear that Iain and Chris have no idea whatsoever about the burka. It is actually not part of Islam, but something imposted on Muslim women with the abject purpose of oppressing them. There is nothing in the Koran about the burka. I would recommend to both that they read Robert Spencer’s Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.

Surely helping to free British Muslim women from the oppression they suffer in their communities is in fact very libertarian.

If the Conservatives are going to paint the BNP & UKIP with the same brush and try convince people they are on in the same they are going to regret it. The British public are not that stupid. They realise one is a part of neo-Nazi thugs and the other is a party of people concerned about the cost of the UK’s membership in the EU (monetary & sovereign rights).

It is clear to me that this smacks of desperation and shows that CCHQ is very worried about UKIP. As I said before I can see UKIP getting a couple of seats in Parliament, alas I think that is the case for the BNP as well.

I have a piece about the upcoming year in politics over at Redstate.

Andrew Neil slams that scum-bag Chowdry… worth watching the entire thing for.

Please never let your idiot for a son, Charles, anywhere near the throne. He has proven time and time again he is completely barking mad. The last time the Monarchy had someone this mad you lost the colonies in the new world.

Dan Hannan ponders whether its possible to be a libertarian and be a member of the UK Conservative party. What is amusing is that it was inspired by a conversation with “my” graphic designer (blog, book, CD etc) Chris Devils Kitchen Mounsey. Chris, a friend of mine, is now leader of the UK Libertarian Party.

David Lindsey weights in with his usual load of bollocks.

Enviroloon and undeserving Conservative PPC (because he has never done anything for the Conservative Party and just joined to become a PPC) Zac Goldsmith has been exposed as a non-dom. Now being a non-dom is a good idea if you want to save yourself taxes, but surely its not a clever idea to do so if you are going to be a member of Parliament.

Iain Dale thinks that this is not that big of a deal, while begs to differ.

This is just another reason why Zac Goldsmith should not be a PPC.

Update: It seems the Conservatives are big on freedom in other arenas either.

Update II: Guido has more as does the First Post.

David Cameron Likely Britain’s Next PM, But He May Yet Blow the Chance.

Letter to America
Guest post: Tony Sharp

If President Obama and Hillary Clinton are to be believed, America feels concern that a UK political party and some of its politicians appear unwilling to accept wholesale the cosy consensus that is membership of the European Union (EU).

America we are told (well, the President and Mrs Clinton at any rate) supports a strong and united Europe. Fair enough. But in encouraging that strong and united Europe, America seems perfectly comfortable in expecting EU member states, such as Britain, to abandon core democratic principles and be subsumed into a political entity of a type no American politician would want or dare recommend to his or her own people.

It should not be a surprise that many Britons feel justified in thinking that President Obama and Mrs Clinton are being rather hypocritical in pushing for a political landscape in Europe of a type the American people would never tolerate being imposed on the US.

But perhaps the problem is President Obama and Mrs Clinton (and any American who shares their view) just don’t get why many Britons oppose their vision of Britain within the EU. So by way of a quick but by no means exhaustive illustration, here are some questions for Americans to consider:

Q. How would you feel about 80% of Federal Law in the US being made by an unelected commission sitting in Mexico City and rubber stamped by representatives drawn from Canada and all South American countries, elected in polls where only about 30% of people vote?

Q. How would you like to see American court cases decided in the Supreme Court, and then sit by powerless as legally binding appeals are made to an Americas Court of Justice sitting in Caracas, made up of judges from Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador and Honduras?

Q. How would you like to pay billions of US tax dollars into an American Union pot each year, and have no control over the money as unelected officials (whose book keeping is so poor their accounts have not been signed off for over 13 years) give you back only a fraction of that sum, the rest being spent on projects in other countries around South America, with huge sums going missing through fraud?

Q. How would you like unelected bureaucrats from Canada, Brazil and Argentina imposing fines on you because the way you distribute the allowance the American Union gives you (and insists you should be grateful for) does not fit with their rules and regulations?

Q. How would you like to have citizens of foreign countries having unlimited access to move to the US to live, work and claim benefits in your towns and cities without any right to refuse them at your border and without requiring them to have a visa, sponsorship or even a job to go to?

Q. How would you like American foreign policy to be decided for you by other countries who make up an American Union, with America’s interests being represented on the world stage, perhaps even in the UN, by your official American Union ‘foreign minister’ who you’ve never voted for and hails from Paraguay?

Q. How would you like the flag of an alien entity to be flown alongside the stars and stripes from your public buildings?

Maybe when put in this context, President Obama and Mrs Clinton and other American citizens would understand why such a large proportion of a proud and independent people don’t like it.

British people are not alone in resenting this subversion of democracy. Whenever the idea of extended EU power and control over member states has been put to a democratic vote (such as in France and the Netherlands - and Ireland too, until she was told to vote again and give the ‘right’ answer) the people have rejected it. To get around this the EU changed the rules of the game to deny people a say.

Somehow I suspect most Americans wouldn’t like it happening to them in the Land of the Free. So why should Britain be pressured to accept it by the Obama White House?

This analysis begs one final question. Does the Democrat White House actually believe in democracy? I think I know what most people would say in response to that.

I have a piece up on PJM about the whole palava. What is most fascinating is the comments that its been getting. Some people just don’t get how vile the BNP are in the end.