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The Tories flirting with Ukip are feeling the siren lure of unelectable purity

Source: New Statesman, Nov 28 2012, 3:42pm CST

Some ideas in politics are so bad that even disavowing them is getting too close. The notion of the Tories forming an electoral pact with the UK Independence Party is one. For Downing Street to mention it at all, even in a rebuttal, can ser ...

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Activists attack PM on gay marriage

Source: Daily Star  |   May 18 2013, 6:37pm CDT

In a letter to the Prime Minister, more than 30 present and former local party chairmen warned that Mr Cameron's backing for a change in the law had led to voters switching their support to Ukip. They wrote that many of the lost supporters would n ...

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The Tories want out of Europe. Let's try to get out of this depression instead

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 18 2013, 6:05pm CDT

According to Greek mythology, Cerberus was the many-headed hound that stood at the gates of Hades, the underworld. Feeding the hound of hell was a thankless task. He always wanted more. Hence the expression "a sop to Cerberus", meaning a futi ...

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"You can almost pretend you’re not in a coalition"


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Offer voters the EU pizza and they'll spit it out

Source: The Telegraph UK  |   May 18 2013, 6:00pm CDT

That is what it is like trying to understand public attitudes to the European Union. Offer the average voter the EU, and he or she will spit it out and say: "There's something on there that I don't like!" But trying to work o ...

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Cameron's 'prepared to run the country without Clegg' following series of bitter rows

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   May 18 2013, 5:51pm CDT

Prospect of minority government could trigger early General ElectionPrepared to go without Clegg unless Tory-Lib Dem feuding endsBut added he hopes to cling on to his ailing alliance with Mr Clegg David Cameron has threaten ...

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Now new claims suggest CAMERON used 'swivel-eyed loons' jibe to deride Euro rebels as Tory chairman denies using the insult

Source: Daily Mail - UK  |   May 18 2013, 4:38pm CDT

Mail on Sunday can disclose PM was accused of using the insult last yearIt comes after Mr Cameron put his reputation on the line by backing palFT report said he uses the term, but journalist declined to say who told h ...

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Cameron ally slams rebel Tory activists

Source: GulfToday.ae  |   May 18 2013, 4:19pm CDT

LONDON: A close aide to Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed party activists as “mad swivel-eyed loons” in an outburst set to infuriate grassroots Tories. The comment was made by a senior Tory who said MPs are having to put up a show of oppos ...

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UK News: Tories bid to smooth 'loons' furore

Source: Birmingham Post  |   May 18 2013, 4:05pm CDT

The Conservative leadership has moved to head off a damaging rift with grassroots activists after an ally of David Cameron reportedly described them as "mad, swivel-eyed loons". Party co-chairman Lord Fe ...

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National News: Cameron 'losing control' of party

Source: Loughborough Echo  |   May 18 2013, 4:05pm CDT

Former foreign secretary Lord Geoffrey Howe has claimed David Cameron is losing control of his party as the Conservatives' "long, nervous breakdown" over Europe continues. Lord Howe, whose differences with ...

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Tory self-harm over Europe has buried the good news

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 18 2013, 3:53pm CDT

In his interview with The Sunday Telegraph today, William Hague makes it powerfully clear that his Cabinet colleagues have had their collective ears boxed (or perhaps, given their ministerial rank, red-boxed). Yes, Michael Gove and Philip Hammond decla ...

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