David Cameron will be on youtube’s World View this Friday.
I’d be interested to see how he performs. Questions can be submitted here.
Here’s the Obama interview from last month.
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Category Archive: Conservatives
Feb
22
Cameron on youtube…
Feb
08
That concludes the UUP-Tory link…
On Hearts & Minds this evening, Noel Thompson asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: “The election of Martin McGuinness as First Minister should mean no difference [to unionists] and is in no way a setback?” The Secretary of State’s response: “I think the election of Martin McGuinness would be an extraordinary endorsement of …
Jan
25
Corporation tax – what will they do?
The issue of corporation tax for Northern Ireland has emerged once more. It looks like this Cabinet is more in favour of the concept than the last one. But how committed are MLAs, asks bobballs.
Owen Paterson is saying again today that the Assembly should take up tax varying powers and settle discussion over Corporation Tax themselves.
Mr Paterson said: “The basic facts are, if we can get this through, and we’ve got to persuade the Treasury and we’ve got to persuade the European Commission, so we have got quite a long way to go on this, but bluntly, we won’t get there if we don’t have enthusiasm from Northern Ireland.”
Jan
24
An open letter to Owen Paterson: Where now for the *UK* Conservative Party?
Three weeks ago, myself and another pro-Union blogger contacted Owen Paterson’s office. To date, we have had no reply from Mr. Paterson or his staff to our email and we are sending it this morning in the form of an open letter in hope of some kind of response: Dear Mr. Paterson, We are writing …
Oct
21
Danny Alexander's day in the trenches…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGHFmJVLqjA] This video has just been uploaded to the HM Treasury youtube account. It tracks Danny Alexander across the best part of 12 hours during the CSR announcements. He starts off perky enough but the realisation that a Paxo interview lies in wait starts to dawn on him at about 3mins 50secs. It’s an alternate …
Oct
08
Tonight's Conservative PPB
PPBs fascinate me. On a general note though, I dislike the straight piece to camera – nothing televisual in it. Always seems to be a waste of the opportunity provided by the medium. Overall, this has more than a hint of ‘Labour isn’t working’ about it. They need to be careful about this – lest …
Oct
06
Corporation tax win?
The Northern Ireland Secretary has said the British government is examining ways to change corporation tax levels in Northern Ireland to attract new investment. via RTÉ News: Plans to change NI corporation tax levels. Will check this up later…
Jun
21
The Problems for GB Parties standing in NI – The Tories
The major ideal at the heart of the CU project was that the alliance offered a way of offering people within Northern Ireland the opportunity to vote for a party capable of national government; a mainstream, mainland UK political party, in their case the Conservative Party. When some countered that the unionist party contained some …
May
24
Do unionist parties do the Union more harm than good?
In the wake of the general election, Open Unionism has hosted a vigorous debate about the future of Ulster unionism. So far, it has hinged on the ‘unity’ issue. Should so-called unionist parties in Northern Ireland combine their forces in a single group, or at least coordinate their efforts come election time, in order to …
Dec
30
The big task that’s facing the next UK government…
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- @buachailldana1 *Minority* language funding is writing your own amt on invoice, all across EU. Ulster Scots is merely joining gravy train.
- Protestant pupils don’t speak Ullans : http://t.co/xscZNDEo
- @Askinner2011 Cheers for the link, Henry kept uncharacteristically quiet on that one;)
- My co-editor on Open Unionism tells it like it is;) : "Yes to the UK" http://t.co/qNEul4fr via @studentjournals
- OK, numbers are relatively small but still- "More Irish enlisting in British army even as losses in Afghanistan grow": http://t.co/oz60Yd1Q
- That didn't last long: http://t.co/HCcb9afS: http://t.co/OyajwtSp
- The Open Unionism Daily is out! http://t.co/u3fmvYNB ▸ Top stories today via @sallynicoll @markdevenport @news_letter @pmynes @ni_crc
- Scottish iseparation: "Country would lose warship contracts" -: http://t.co/ll8wvEEe
- @siema_skip "you'd be British all you like". Oh, thank you. With regards your question-yes, mistakes were made. And?
- @siema_skip You deny my and others born in N.Ireland's right to Britishness? What gives you that right to dictate my national identity?