TORY leader Michael Howard has been barred from the White House

The SUN ^ | 08/27/04 | TREVOR KAVANAGH

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds pretty paleoconservative, a.k.a. Buchanan Brigade, eh? ;') Prefer a Labour Party, the majority of which may now oppose Blair? I've never bought into the comparison of Blair with Clinton. I've watched some UK Parliament broadcasts over the years, and remember Blair thanking John Major for his quiet, behind the scenes support for some kind of thing or other (may have been the Gulf War?). Most of the UK Conservatives don't agree with this bonehead, just as most Americans didn't agree with the Dixie Bitch.

[MJY1288]

That's my whole point :-), I seriously doubt Karl Rove and Mr. Howard ever spoke or communicated in any way.

Freegards

[SunkenCiv]

Being a Tory gets easier by the minute
by Ed Vaizey
Sunday August 24, 2003

The Conservative Party conference in Blackpool in early October should go some way to answer the poser... By the time conference comes around, Iain Duncan Smith will have been Tory leader for just over two years. Duncan Smith is credited by his party with reconnecting the Conservatives with the public's agenda, something that they failed to do in 2001. As one strategist puts it, 'we are now starting to have policies on the issues that keep people awake at night'. Such issues do not include Europe, a subject where Duncan Smith has succeeded in turning down the volume. They do include, though, schools, hospitals and crime... Without having to look at a crib sheet, I can tell you that the Conservatives would abolish tuition fees, make exam bodies independent, put 40,000 more policemen on the street over the next decade, fund 20,000 more drug rehabilitation places, introduce a health passport and tackle the issue of funded pensions with a long-term savings plan... Better still, Government errors are seized on with a little more alacrity. Peter Hain's recent musings on the need to impose even higher taxes on middle-income earners was like the whiff of grapeshot to old Tory dogs. The new-found enthusiasm took me back to the hunger the Tories felt in the 1992 election campaign... A million more people now pay higher rate income tax, and average income families now face the prospect for the first time of an inheritance tax bill, because of rising property prices. The Tory mantra is likely to be that real reform, not higher taxes, means better public services. And better public services can therefore exist with lower taxes.

Galloway expelled by Labour
BBC
24 October, 2003

Labour chairman Ian McCartney insisted that party had been right to expel a man who "incited foreign forces to rise up against British troops".

"He was the only Labour MP to do this and he has never taken back or apologised for these comments," he said... He faced five charges relating to a television interview during the war in which he accused Mr Blair and George Bush of acting "like wolves" in invading Iraq.

The charges faced by Mr Galloway were understood to be that:

• he incited Arabs to fight British troops
  
• he incited British troops to defy orders
  
• he incited Plymouth voters to reject Labour MPs
  
• he threatened to stand against Labour
  
• he backed an anti-war candidate in Preston

He was found guilty of all but the third charge.

The law he violated has been on the books since 1934.

[GeronL]

Duncan Smith is credited by his party with reconnecting the Conservatives with the public's agenda,

So thats why they dumped IDS, he was actually doing a good job, dang him to heck.. =o)

[MadIvan]

If I were President Bush, I'd do the same. :)

Regards, Ivan

(UKIP voter, former Tory voter)

[Sterlingtimes]

Howard is beneath contempt in his approach on this matter. This entry from Stephen Pollard sums things up quite nicely.

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http://www.stephenpollard.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/581 For American readers: If you'd like to express your appreciation of Tony Blair's support for the war in Iraq, here's a site which will let you. For UK readers: We have a more direct option. Come the next election, we can either vote for Michael Howard, whose behaviour in recent months over Iraq has been damn-near contemptible; we can vote for the preposterous Charles Kennedy, who favoured keeping Saddam in power; or we can vote for a leader who is prepared to stand up to terror, to defend the West, and to remove tyrants. Hmmm. Difficult choice. UPDATE: One of my commenters makes a very good point. In labelling Howard as 'damn-near contemptible' and Kennedy as only 'preposterous' I imply that Howard is worse than Kennedy, and surely it should be the other way round. Howard did, after all, support the war, whereas Kennedy campaigned for a genocidal maniac to remain in power. Quite right. My labels were misjudged in their application. I stand corrected.

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[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

President Bush is simply not that way.

Uh yeah. Tell that to Tancredo.

[RonDog]

From www.nzherald.co.nz:

Michael Howard

White House bans British Opposition leader

30.08.2004

LONDON - British Conservative leader Michael Howard has accused President George W. Bush of trying to protect British Prime Minister Tony Blair in an extraordinary row sparked by news that the Tory leader has been banned from the White House...