Dear Conservative Shadow Cabinet and Conservative Blue Blog Moderator
Earlier this month I made a comment at the Conservative Blue blog, specifically in response to this blog post:http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2010/02/02/ask-me-your-questions-on-the-economy/
I think you’ll agree a blog post titled “Ask me your questions on the economy” by George Osborne (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Conservative General Election Campaign Coordinator) invites questions on the economy from the British public (such as myself).
I asked a variety of questions in my comment which I include below:
As a Labour voter I know the Conservatives are almost certainly going to be in government after the general election, not happy about it, but that’s politics. Created this site https://general-election-2010.co.uk/ as Conservatives in government again concerns me so much!
Since you plan to cut public spending as soon as you take power, how many public sector workers will this send to the unemployment line?
Have you factored into your planned savings the knock on effect of having less money flowing through the economy?
For example if your public sector cuts directly results in 100,000 public sector workers loosing their jobs, this must also result in further job losses in the private sector as those 100,000 can no longer pay their mortgage, pay private businesses to provide various services etc… How many more unemployed are we looking at and is it worth the savings?
Are you not concerned at a double dip recession if you start cutting spending sooner rather than later?
Everyone knows current Labour government spending that’s part of the economic stimulus package can not continue indefinitely, the question is when is it safe to cut the life line and start taking the economic pain that’s been to some degree delayed?
I think these are reasonable political questions on Conservative economic policy, but the Conservative Blue Blog webmaster/moderator deleted the comment!
I’ve been trying to find out why the comment was deleted for over 10 days?
I’ve posted two further comments to the Conservative Blue Blog and an email via your contact form:http://www.conservatives.com/Information/Contact_Us.aspx asking why, but with no response so far.
Hence this email (sent to all the members of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet who publish an email address and the Conservative Blue Blog Webmaster/Moderator) and open letter (you’ll find a copy of this email at .
I own a few websites including a well ranked politics site (my first political site as it happens) related to the up coming general election https://general-election-2010.co.uk/ If you check Google you’ll find the site ranked quite well for relevant General Election search phrases such as:
General Election Poll – 1st domain
General Election – 6th domain
General Election 2010 – 2nd domain
General Election UK – 2nd domain
UK General Election – 2nd domain
Conservative Policies – 6th domain
Conservative Policies 2010 – 6th domain
Election 2010 – 3rd domain
2010 Election – 4th domain
Liberal Democrats Policies – 4th domain
and many, many more.
As you can imagine as the general election draws closer and general election fever hits the country, my site will see quite a bit of relevant General Election traffic. I would like to be able to explain to my General Election sites visitors why the Conservative Blue blog moderator is deleting what I think are perfectly reasonable comments/questions from the British public?
I’ve posted a running summary of my comment being deleted and subsequent email etc… being ignored at https://general-election-2010.co.uk/reasons-to-vote-conservative-2010-general-election/comment-page-3/#comment-4350
Thank You
David Cameron Law (that’s my real name, ironic as I vote Labour).
This is a list of Conservative Shadow Cabinet members I’ve tried to email this to, a few of them didn’t have an email address.
Originally I was going to send it to all Conservative MPs, but there wasn’t an easy access list of all their email addresses, so just got the 30 below.
I’m sure between them they can manage to yell at the Conservative Blue Blog moderator/webmaster and get him/her to explain why the comment was deleted and my follow up comments and email being ignored.
Rt Hon David Cameron MP Leader of the Conservative Party
Rt Hon William Hague MP Shadow Foreign Secretary and Senior Member of the Shadow Cabinet
George Osborne MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and General Election Campaign Coordinator
Greg Clark Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Kenneth Clarke Shadow Secretary of State for Business
Liam Fox MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Mark Francois Shadow Minister for Europe
Cheryl Gillan MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Michael Gove MP Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
Chris Grayling MP Shadow Home Secretary
Dominic Grieve QC MP Shadow Secretary of State for Justice
Philip Hammond MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Nick Herbert MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Jeremy Hunt MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Andrew Lansley CBE MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP Chairman of the Policy Review and of the Conservative Research Department
Rt Hon Francis Maude MP Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Rt Hon Theresa May MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Minister for Women
Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
Andrew Mitchell MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
David Mundell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
The Baroness Neville-Jones of Hutton Roof in the County of Cumbria DCMG Shadow Security Minister and National Security Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition
Owen Paterson MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Eric Pickles Chairman of the Conservative Party
Grant Shapps MP Shadow Housing Minister
Caroline Spelman MP Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Tom Strathclyde Leader of the Opposition in the Lords
Theresa Villiers Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
Sayeeda Warsi Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action
David Willetts MP Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills, with special responsibility for family policy
George Young Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE
Joyce Anelay Opposition Chief Whip in the Lords (Attending Shadow Cabinet)
David
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Update on the Conservative Blue Blog moderator deleting reasonable comments on the economy just like the BNP moderator does.
Over two weeks since I sent the email to the majority of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet and not received a single response!!!
I’ve submitted the blog comment on the economy again to the Conservative Blue Blog, won’t hold my breath for it to get through moderation.
To confirm not had a single response from anyone regarding this despite emailing the Blue Blog webmaster and about 30 of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet MPs. What do you have to do to get a response from the Conservatives?
BTW made a short reasonable comment on the BNP website about their candidate for my area, that never got through moderation either. So the Conservatives and the BNP have something in common, they both delete my reasonable comments.
David
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I dearly would like to see the Conservative party back in government. However, David Cameroon is still at this late stage very vague and is not not spelling out credible reasons why we should vote for him. From where I am it looks as though they are giving the Labour party a free reign to denounce the Conservatives and not hitting the government hard where it hurts. Why aren’t they criticizing Mr. Brown for repeatedly assuring us that our economy was the best placed to come out of recession and it turned out to be the last one with extremely weak growth figures. There is plenty of evidence to prove that they have not managed the economy well. As the education system in the country is churning out record number of school leavers and graduates with A/A* and top degrees respectively why are 80% of the jobs taken up by foreigners showing that the youngsters in this country are unemployable? Why are more and more immigrants allowed in this country when there are no jobs for them. In these days of austerity how is it possible for health tourists to get free hospital treatment while elderly people who have paid taxes all their lives are neglected and allowed to die. Mr Brown makes promises that he cannot keep. Does anyone believe that he can provide a nurse for every cancer patient as he stated recently. With all their previous promises child poverty is increased and the gap between the richest and poorest has widendend. Mr Cameroon please wake up and hit some sharp blows repeatedly so that the electorate are made aware of the numerous failings and failed promises of this government.
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Eloquently put, MARYANNE. I heartily agree. I suspect right now that, since the date of the election has not yet been announced, the Conservative party is in a holding pattern. After all, they don’t want to peak too early. On the other hand, I think you are correct about their inactivity. Normally, at this time, a party is attempting to find a balance between a positive and negative campaign. At present, they are doing *neither*! It does seem – as you pointed out – that the Conservatives are, rather astonishingly, choosing to take it on the chin. If they are indeed in a holding pattern, waiting for an opportunity to make a heavy, sustained attack on Labour, they at least need to keep the campaign simmering right now with some positive campaigning including broad strokes about their manifesto. For the sake of the country, I hope they pull it off.
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Thank you for the list of the shadow cabinet. I was thining of doing a little poster of each like the Cameron spoofs until I realized that no one knows 75% of them. Michael Gove looks very spoofable though
You are not coming across on socilal housing.
tenants who pay rent don’y want to hear of how to buy, they can’t afford.
They also want to hear of clearing out ASB on their estates.
I am so frustrated. Your heads are in the sand and its slipping away from what should have been a slam dunk for Dave.
You all have to go to another level and for good ness sake do something drastic.
Jean
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