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The overall Tory policy on immigration remains the same, it’s just that a clear line has now been approved that has been deemed as ’safe’ to say out loud. The idea of reducing immigration from the current hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands is a good idea. Imposing annual quotas on immigration was Michael Howard’s downfall at the last election. The Tories remain committed to a national border protection police whose main task will be to crack down on illegal immigration which can someimes be a much bigger problem than immigration itself because of the associated crime and gang warfare that goes with it.

Clearly CCHQ are trying to do everything they can to improve the party’s position in the polls. Will it work? I don’t know and to be perfectly honest I would not be surprised if we get to May 7th and find a Tory government, but with only a slender majority of perhaps less than ten. If we have a hung parliament, I think the Conservatives would be the largest party and therefore Cameron would be PM and then I think we would see another election in October in order to try and get a more decisive result.

Clearly, the fight is on and as I have always said, Labour are always a force to be reckoned with. Yes, they have a substantially reduced grass roots base, but never underestimate Labour’s ability to bring people out on the streets from nowhere come polling day. What Labour appear to be doing is focussing their campaigns very closely. For example, Sandra Osborne, the incumbent in Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock has about 15 campaign team members canvassing with her on a weekly basis. That’s a similar level to many other Tory target seats, so Labour is not so dead and buried across the board as some would suggest.

If it’s money that’s going to win the election and the ability to spend on glossy leaflets, etc. then it’s the Tories who will win. In the last year, local associations alone raised a staggering £25m, and that’s before you consider central office funding and Ashcroft’s target seat funding.

However, if it’s the size of campaign teams, policy and ability to get the vote out on May 6th, then it’s anybody’s Downing Street.

Europe’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Ashton

HT: Today programme Twitter feed

The whole thing has smacks of hypocrisy about it. Hatty has been going on and on about how wee need all women short-lists to encourage more women into parliament, then the only seat not to have such a case just so happens to be the seat her own husband is selected in.

So, of course we know that the Tories just hand out seats based on who your parents are and how disgraceful this is, so we couldn’t imagine the Labour party doing the same thing could we? Let’s run down a list of such Labour persons:

1. Mr & Mrs Ed Balls (Evette Cooper)
2. The Benn clan. Tony, then there’s Hilary, and now his daughter has been selected as well
3. Harriet Harmen and Jack Dromey

The list goes on and there are more examples which I wont bore you with. Anyhow, Labour aren’t guilty of keeping it in the family, surely not?

Since Christmas I have not complained about the lack of policies. That is because we have been announcing a ton of policies since the new year. The problem is that it doesn’t seem to be washing with the public. Saturday’s YouGov poll put the Tories just 2 points ahead of Labour and only MORI have a Tory lead of double figures and even then it’s only 10 points.

I reckon the lack of reaction to the policy announcements has got very much to do with their timing. Now, I know that CCHQ is anxious to not announce policies too early for fear (and it’s a well founded fear) that Labour will simply steal them. However, I you suddenly announce so many policies so close to the election without any talk of them before now it starts to look like they’ve been cobbled together in a bit of a hurry.

I’m confident that the party has been sitting on these policies for quite some time and that they aren’t just hastily arranged announcements. However, we should have started to announce policies at the conference last October. I expected the shadow cabinet to make some announcements in their speeches, instead we got staged managed cloned speeches that all said “what we need is change”. I tell you, if I hear that stupid word again I’m going to go insane!

Anyway, I think Tim Montgomerie hit the right note when he said that the Tory leadership need to focus on the policies they’ve already announced rather than continuing to announce more and more policies. Having announced so many policies, what now needs to happen is tying them into the broader themes of the campaign and if they can do this successfully then the polls will improve again.

The election has not been won, or indeed lost. The Conservatives need to win 117 seats just to get a majority of 1. They need something like a 6.9% national swing just to get that slender majority and that’s no mean feat.  I am confident in CCHQs abilities to conduct the election campaign properly. The campaign bulletins have been taken up a notch. On Friday evening, a 52 page ’summary’ of all the stories going on went out. Yes, it’s a top-down campaign and yes I don’t particuarly like it, but if that’s what is going to work then we just have to accept it.

If you need any further evidence of the Americanisation of UK politics then look no further than the news that team Cameron have secured the services of some of Obama’s election advisers. Again, I don’t like the Americanisation of the UK, but if these moves are going to shift Labour and give the country a chance to pick itself up off the ground then, again, it just has to be accepted.

1. Faceless Eurocrat
2. “NATO is no different to the European Army”
3. “we’re not allowed to quote Enoch Powell any more, but I’m going to anyway” – A legendary Conservative MEP
4. “hello lady you light of my life” – random restaurant owner
5. “I am Mr satisfaction” – another restaurant owner
6. I’m not sure what to say as I wasn’t really listening to the previous speech” – member of the EU Environment committee after being asked to reply to a speech
7. “I could go on about climate change for hours but it’s mostly boring so I won’t” – Roger Helmer MEP

There were many more that I could go on with. My favourite poster was an invitation to a special meeting of the inboard plenary on water. I was as astonished as everybody else.

p.s. The reason I haven’t posted a review of the trip yet is that I am just ridiculously busy with university work at the moment.

Basically, Struan Stevenson, Conservative MEP for Scotland, has arranged a trip for members of Conservative Future Scotland (the youth wing of the Tories for those of you not in the know) to the European Parliament. Given that our itinery kicks off at 0930 hrs tomorrow morning, we have decided to travel today to take full advantage of the Brussels social scene this evening.

Today is a relaxing day. Tomorrow we have a full agenda of tours, meetings and greetings with various aspects of the parliament. I will of course keep you abreast with our activities right here on Green’s Diary.

Code named ‘ operation better off out’ (which will become quite clear after I return to he UK), we will be sampling the EU fisheries committee, meeting other MEPs, taking full advantage of the Belgium beers and of course consuming a fair amount of fine food.

Now, before you all scream, “students these days, what are they like? Weren’t like that in my day!” and wonder who is paying for all this then look no further than youself. I will explain the details on Wednesday when I return, but basically, if you pay tax in the UK, or any other EU member state for thet matter than I thank you. You have just funded 30 students to go on a booze cruise in Brussels. Did you sanction this action? no. Were you consulted on it? no. But, then this is the European  Parliament we are talking about. The finest example of a model democracy ever known to man.

If you’re interested in scandalous expenses claims then look no further than the EU. Westminster is a mere acidental ink blot on the graph paper compared to that which is going on in Brussels.

Anyway, for up to the minute updates from the trip, check out my twitter feed here. I’ll also be posting regular updates on the blog, so long as the old ‘roaming interweb’ all works.

Now, there will no doubt be many of you reading this thinking is he actually going to defend Sir Nicholas? Yes. I am. If you listen to what he actually says he is making a very reasonable argument as to why MPs should be allowed to go  in first class. By talking about people who have a “totally different outlook on life”, he is talking about people just on their way to work and who are reading a book or people travelling to see friends, etc. He is not talking people down in the pompous and snobbish fashion that it is made out to be.

I am disgusted that the Tories have condemned his words. Sir Nicholas has represented the people of Macclesfield for many a decade and if they had a problem with him travelling by first class, then they would not have consistently voted for him. I personally prefer to travel first class because I find it quieter and you generally don’t get distracted by children or other noise. If I have work to be concentrating on I would rather be in first class where I know I can get on with it. Yes, there will be times when standard class suffices, but this is no guarantee. Does that make me a snob? IN CCHQ’s eyes, probably, yes it does. In the real world. No, it doesn’t. I don’t know about anyone else, but I would much rather my MP turned up to a debate having had the opportunity to study his papers fully rather than turning up to a debate not fully prepared because he couldn’t get a seat in standard class and there were children making noise and a variety of other general conversations taking place.

I’m happy for MPs to claim for first class tickets. Of course, if they claim for a first class ticket and then travel standard class (as happens with MEPs all the time) then that is wrong and is another matter. However, in this case  it does not seem unreasonable to provide members of parliament with first class travel. It is not saying they are above the general public for they are not. It is merely saying that they need a place where they can guarantee they can get on with the work they have to do.

If you read previous articles on this blog you will quite easily find that I have consistently rallied against excessive expenses where necessary, but I will defend MPs when what they are saying has merit and this is one of those situations. There will no doubt be many other MPs who have the same feelings as Sir Nicholas, but are not in a position to push their head above the parapet.

It’s a dark day for politics when it gets lowered to lambasting members of parliament for simply wanting a quiet place to do what is important work which can and often does have widespread implications not only for their constituents, but for the country as a whole.

Iain Dale reckons the interview on 5Live was car crash esq, ConHome has come out against his words and practically every other media outlet is rallying against him. Yes, he might have come across better had he worded his answers slightly differently, however the point still stands. Sir Nicholas has been a fantastic MP standing up for this country and protecting traditions when others have insisted modernisation is the way forward. He will be missed from the Commons. He’s right, it’s not ‘troughing’ as Guido suggests and I’m proud to defend his comments.

Incidentally, if you don’t believe me about Sir Nicholas being right on this issue, then you can listen to his interview for yourself. Listen to what he actually says and listen to the disgraceful way Stephen Nolan tries to get him to retract his comments.

UPDATE: I’ve had a browse around the twitter and blogging world and evidently there is suspiciously nothing on this subject from Tom Harris, not even anything on his Twitter feed. Interesting, given that he uses first class to travel between Glasgow and London.

I actually tried to view the programme without taking any prejudices into it and to be perfectly honest, I felt that 5-10 minutes into it Brown was actually doing quite well. He was smiling, responding to questions well and looked genuinely relaxed. But as is so often the case with Brown he can’t keep the facade up for long and once we got past the first advert break he slipped back into his usual dull tones with long winded answers and a face that looks like it’s been slapped by an army of blind beings.

When we got to the part that had been trailed the most – the questions about how he dealt with and how he felt at the time of his first daughter’s death I though the dealt with it well. It was obviously very hard for him to talk about it as you might expect, but he spoke slowly and calmly in measured tones that came across well. Now, as a pre-record interview it is clear that they’ve had several takes and I would suspect that lying in the ITV dungeons offices is a tape of all the attempts that for whatever reason were not aired. I would not be surprised if Gordon did actually break down and then he refused to allow it to be shown as even he would consider that PR gone too far.

Clearly the object of the exercise was a PR stunt otherwise his advisers would not have agreed to him doing the interview. Piers Morgan’s questioning was hardly tricky to deal with, particularly because it didn’t deal with government policy, it focused solely on Gordon the man. So, will it help when it comes to the ballot box? I doubt it. Yes, the programme shows that he does have a personality and I don’t doubt that, but what I and many others have always said is that he doesn’t have the right personality to be a leader in the limelight such as the Prime Minister is.

I know from people who have worked closely with Brown that he is not necessarily the man the media make him out to be. Yes, by his own admittance he is not always the best at explaining things and that is very evident when he tries to sell his policies. Yes he doesn’t come across well on the TV and that is why he was better placed at the Treasury where he was by and large out of the view of the cameras.

I don’t often write in favour of Tony Blair, but thank goodness he got the leadership when he did, otherwise Labour would be in a much worse position than they already are. Oh, actually, maybe that would have meant the Tories would have been in government by now and the economy wouldn’t have been completely wrecked. Just a thought.

Anyway, now that a few days have passed and the initial hype about how great all speeches are and the great feeling you get listening to them and how energised everyone is after them, I can now perhaps provide some reasonable analysis of David Cameron’s speech. He spoke for little over 1/2 hour which was about right I thought. He covered a wide variety of subjects, with an emphasis on how Labour have failed the country and the SNP aren’t interested in Westminster and so therefore the only way to not waste your vote is by voting Conservative.

He made a strong point about Gordon  Brown not seeing Alex Salmond for over a year during the worst economic conditions the country has been faced with for 30 years. Following from that, he pledged to meet with the first minister within seven days of winning the election. This is a welcomed move by Cameron. There is a need for a new relationship between Westminster and Holyrood becuase the present situation is simply not viable and it is no surprise therefore that you end up with poorly informed decisions such as freeing the Lockerbie bomber which has implications in diplomatic terms for the whole of Britain, not just Scotland.

The key theme from the speech for me was the fact that he did not apologise for the Conservative’s poor standing in Scotland. He simply attacked labour and the SNP where necessary for their failings and then showed how it would be different under a Conservative government. In recent years, the Scottish Conference leader’s speech has seemed almost like a Thatcher style “we in Scotland” moment, almost as if the Conservative Party is an English party making a speech in Scotland with the tag line ‘tories on tour’.

This speech was different. There was much more of a positive message from it. A rallying call if you like, but definitely not a rallying cry. For Cameron has the Scottish Conservatives on his side and they are ready to fight to take back seats and restart the process of sending Conservative representatives to Westminster. The party has 11 target seats in Scotland, 6 of which we have a very realistic chance of winning and internal party polling polling is in line with this as well.

Cameron has always been good as public speaking and he is particularly good at delivering conclusions to speeches. In Friday’s conclusion he said:

“So we will fight this election campaign in a completely different way. Not just trying to win back those who voted for us before and went away, but reaching out to those who’ve never voted Tory before and saying to them:

Yes, we have changed, yes we are a modern, progressive Conservative party, yes, we have bold and radical plans to change our country and succeed where Labour failed, so come and join us – for a fairer, safer, greener country where opportunity is more equal. For a stronger, better, brighter future where our best days lie ahead of us, not behind.

That is our choice, that is the change, that is the modern, progressive vision the country is crying out for.”

Here we see a call, a call for a clean election campaign and a positive election campaign, one that points out the government’s failings, but focusses mostly on what the Conservatives will do to rebuild the country and put it back on top of the world.

Overall, it was a very good speech. I don’t think it can be classed as Cameron’s greatest speech, but perhaps the best speech he has given in Scotland. I don’t think it will turn the tide much, but it may convince a few. It certainly got very good coverage in most newspapers in Scotland which can only be good. Indeed in my conversations with various journalists at the conference, many do seem quite perceptive to what Cameron has to say. Whether they will endorse it come election time is another matter.

P.s. You can read a full transcript of the speech here

16:13 – he Closes by saying come with me as our best days lie ahead of us. Dc joined on stage by David Mundell and Anabel Goldie.
An excellent speech by Cameron. Full analysis to come later.

16:09 – I would rather we attempted big change and fail than limp through relying on relaunches and press releases
We need to trust people and so
Things will go wrong, but we need to do these things because that is the only way we will get the country back on tracks

16:03 – if you can work and aren’t working you can’t go on receiving benefits. It’s bad for society and we won’t let it continue

15:56 – labour have mucked up and are completely out of touch with the people so we need to come to the rescue

15:54 – 1st slip up: “the NHS in Scotland is dissolved, I mean devolved”!!

15:51 – “we’ve had to fix labours damage before and well do it again. We’ll role up our sleeves and work together to rebuild our economy

15:47 – solid focus on strength of union and that it is a disgrace that Brown did not meet Salmond for a year in a time of economic hardship

15:45 – dc on stage. Early focus on need to stop Labour damaging the country more
Pledges to never join the Euro : well received in the conference hall

14:46 – back in the conference bar ahead of Gove’s speech at 3pm. Will cover the main points here

14:07 – lunch fringe over, back to propping up the bar

12:16 – disgrace that the SNP have stopped the right to buy: one of the most successful policies of the Thatcher era

12:03 – snp not standing for UK parliament, Lib Dems not in the running for government so only a vote for the Conservatives can get a change of government.
Labour have done so much damage we need to send them packing for
The good of the country

12:02 – Scotland is better in a united kingdom, not an
Independent one

12:00 – opens speech with focus on personal conservatism. Bedrock, she says lies in her dissagreeimg not agreeing with the nationalisation during the Wilson government.

11:55 – Anabel Goldie now on stage. All her msps are lined up on the front row and she enters to a standing ovation.

11:52 – Peter Duncan closes the candidates session. Now it’s
Anabel Goldie’s turn

11:35 – Richard Cook, ppc in East Renfrewshire now speaking. Richard’s true talent as a public speaker is clear given his speech was written a few hours ago!

11:20 – time out. Getting a cup of tea, just had a rather nice chat with Alan Cochrane of the Daily Telegraph

11:00 – star of the BBC Programme, Trawlermen, and our candidate in Banth and Buchan is now on stage. His speech focusses on rural affairs.
I see what the conference organisers are doing now, basically, because it’s a one day conference, there’s no time to have a series of topic sessions so they’re using the target seats candidates to speak on a variety of issues. Obviously this gives exposure to the candidates as well.

10:55 – west Aberdeenshire and Kincardine candidate now on stage talking about climate change.
Before him, Berekshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk candidate, John Lamont spoke with a focus on renewable energy.
What is clear here is that we really do have a good set of candidates in our target seats. From what I’ve seen so far, they will all make excellent MPs. I hope to speak to some of them later on

10:35 – Peter Lyburn, local candidate here in Perth now on stage. He opens his speech focussing on transparency and cleaning up parliament especially in area of expenses.
A fairly moderate speech from Lyburn. Mentioned Brown’s lack of meeting with Alex Salmond for over a year during the recession. We’ll hear more about that later in Cameron’s speech

9am: Here go’s. Up and and about after a cracking night out. Just waiting for breakfast then off to the conference centre for what promises to be a good day. I’ll post updates here throughout the day, or you can follow my Twitter feed at www.Twitter.com/greensdiary

Tomorrow sees the Scottish Conservative party conference in Perth. It’s usually a two day event, but with the general election coming up it’s been shortened to just the one day this year.
I’ll be heading up tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn armed with my iPhone so I can report back here all the major events. Cameron is due to speak just before 4pm and I’ll be carrying a live blog of that speech.
The media will be crawling all over the place as per usual, but even more so as this will be Cameron’s final big speech before the election is called.
I hope to be speaking to a few of the target seat candidates to see how their campaigns are going. If I’m up with the technology, I might even do an audioboo podcast for the interviews, but we’ll see.
Other than that I’ll be snooping around around the conference bars, getting as much free food and drink as possible whilst seeing what gossip I can pick up.

I always look forward to conferences, exhausting as they may be for it is the one opportunity where all the big players in the party are together at the same time. The social scene is always good as well and who knows, I might even make it two years in a row unknowingly providing the backdrop to a live BBC News report propping up the bar with a certain candidate!

In a despicable, but not altogether unpredictable announcement/policy/idea/consultation, Brown’s badgers have have come up with the brilliant idea of charging a £20,000 death tax to pay for an elderly care scheme.

The problem here is that those on modest incomes will be left nothing to pass onto their friends and families. The problem as I see is is yet more government intervention into our lives. Surely it would be much better to have a voluntary scheme that people can pay into earlier on to pay for old age care rather than this policy of taxing by stealth.

At PMQs today, David Cameron quizzed the Prime Minister on it and he was simply unable to give a straight answer about it. The reason being he has a track record of not raising taxes just before an election and then sneakily raising them straight after an election whilst no one is watching. Labour will simply not be able to get away with this one. As if the inheritance tax hit enopugh, this new ’super tax’ will hit the middle earners most. The poorest are always protected by handouts and the richest can afford whatever taxes come thier way, but the middle class have a problem and they are the ones who feel the brunt of every new Labour tax policy.

NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times figures, 31 December 2009

The key points from the latest release are:

Inpatient Waiting times

• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over the 26 weeks standard for inpatient admission at the end of December 2009 was 18 (compared to the total of 625,100).

• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 13 weeks at the end of December 2009 was 57,600, an increase of 12,300 (27.3%) from November 2009, and a rise of 18,000 (45.3%) from December 2008.

Outpatient Waiting times

• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over the 13 weeks standard for a first outpatient appointment following GP referral at the end of December 2009 was 93 (compared to the total of 926,800).

• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 8 weeks at the end of December 2009 was 74,100, an increase of 11,700 (18.8%) from November 2009, but a rise of 26,900 (57.0%) from December 2008.

It’s not rocket science to see that Labour’s claim to have reduced waiting lists and drastically improved the NHS are now completely flawed. Just under a 30% increase last month alone and a 45% increase during 2009. That is a massive jump, a jumpt that cannot be underestimated, yet because of other events going on today, it will receive nil coverage.

Now then, I wonder what other news there is today, perhaps a little inquiry and a certain witness who may have been around at the time of Iraq war. Yes, you’ve got it, the Labour government have done it again, in their usual typical style they’ve pushed out bad news on a day when the media’s attentions are focussed elsewhere. It’s the style we’ve come to expect, so it’s not really that surprising. Iain Dale picked up on the story first and rightly pointed out that on a day when there’s a big political event happening, it’s always worth checking the press rooms of government departments.

Looks pretty much the same I hear you chanting. Well, yes, the layout is the same, I’ve just tweaked the graphics and changed the colours a bit.

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The problem is of course, that’s not the truth. If you walk into clothes retailers on the high street, they will tell you that business is slow. If you go to hotels they will tell you it’s quiet. The simple fact is that the final quarter of 2009 included Christmas and thus it’s no surprise that there was slight economic growth due to people buying presents.

0.1% is an incredibly small growth and there is nothing to suggest that the economy will continue to grow in the 1st quarter of 2010. The labour government inherited a strong economy. We know this because they committed to Tory spending plans for the first three years of government. After that time, the economy started to slide and there’s only been one party in power during this time. Brown claimed we were best prepared to weather the storm, yet we were the first G20 nation into recession and we’re the last out of it.  Meanwhile, each newly born baby is saddled with £17,000 of debt and this is what Gordon and his moronic crew believe to be ‘best placed’!

Whatever the next few months holds for our economy doesn’t particularly matter when it comes to the election. many people are very much of the mind that it is Labour who has caused this mess. They’ve had their chance to make the country better and they’ve spectacularly failed. The British electorate will not forgive them for that and now the time is up. Despite the left still claiming there’s a chance Labour will win the next election, a poll out for Channel 4 last night by ICM shows that people will not reward Brown for ending the recession. Some 46% feel worse of now than they did 12 months ago. That’s a staggering increase and shows just how many people this Labour recession has had a large negative impact on.

The last chance Brown had was if today’s figures showed reasonable growth. But they haven’t and the growth is only just growth. Things are much much worse than we may have thought a few months ago. That emergency budget from Osborne is looking more and more needed as the weeks go by.

About time too. We all said at the time that it was a disgrace on two fronts. mainly that we were fighting two wars at the time and that therefore the position of Defence Secretary should have full attention, not just partial attention. Secondly, in a time when the SNP seemed to have rising support and Scottish independence was again on the table, it was also important to have a Scottish Secretary whose full focus was on Scotland to fight off the SNP and protect the Union.

It’s no wonder therefore, that troops were sent onto the battlefield under equipped and the question of Scottish independence still has not been put to rest. Brown has made many mistakes, some more obvious than others, but this situation of dualism was not just him been short-sighted, it was the height of incompetence and moreover showed a complete ignorance of our national interest.

Yes, Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t wars that Brown started and the fact that he refused to fund the military properly during his time at the treasury gives rise to the suspicion that Brown did not like the wars. However, that was before he was PM, if he had any personal courage (the sort of courage he speaks about in his book), he would have put a stop to the war rather than carrying on with it.

Clearly there are two things that Gordon Brown has no care for, that of Scotland and the military. We need Scotland as much as we need the military. For if we have not Scotland, we lose a significant proportion of our armed forces and if we have not military, then we cannot protect our national interest when it is threatened by those states who wish to have the freedom we cherish.

The election campaign has already begun, but there’s only 14 weeks until the official campaign gets going and less than 130 days until we have to have an election. For Gordon, the clock is ticking ever closer to midnight. For the country we are on the cusp of a new dawn. A dawn which will hopefully bring a new government, one which we hope will be a Conservative one.

As a result i decided to stop blogging for a while in order to focus on university. However, in this election year, I feel that now is the time to return to the blogsphere. I’ll not be posting everyday nor will I be commenting on every story. Green’s Diary is not a breaking news service, there’s already far too many of those in existence.
What GD does offer is commentary and analysis of politics both in the UK and further afield. I am a Conservative and this blog exists to promote Conservatism and so I will naturally be biased in what I write. sphere

As we approach the general election, I’ll be posting updates of campaigns in the target seats where I am campaigning for change. I’ll also be looking at the activities of the other parties and examing what their policies would mean for the country.
With all that has happened in politics over the last year, we stand now in interesting times where politics and politicians are having to make changes. Parliament has seen a large undermining with the expenses scandal and now it is important that we embrace the change necessary to rebuild our political institutions.

I hope that over the next few months Green’s Diary will be able to offer good quality analysis of political events, hopefully providing a view on stories not necessarily evident in the main stream media.

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