By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. The Scottish Conservatives have launched a new party logo. The new logo has a distinctly Scottish Unionist tone – it has the dark blue of the Saltire, with the red of the Union Flag. It replaces the previous green tree logo, which was a variation of the national Conservative […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Earlier today I blogged about the Conservative Party's working class challenge and via Neil O'Brien I was alerted to this poster from the Conservative Party Archive at the Bodleian…
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter With just five days to go until Thursday's first ever elections for police and crime commissioners we will be publishing some of the literature being deployed by Tory candidates. We begin by this example of the campaign themes being promoted by Matthew Grove – our candidate in one of […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter. "Dole Queues and Demons: British Election Posters from the Conservative Party Archive", a new book written by Stuart Ball, a Reader in Modern History at the University of Leicester, was released this month. The book contains nearly 200 of the 650 election campaign posters in the vast Conservative Party […]
Already flying high over Manchester.
In terms of defeating the UKIP threat in June's European Elections a leaflet from Tory MEPs chooses to emphasise their MEPs' record of failure rather than addressing the independence argument head on. Point 1 of a leaflet charges: "UKIP let down their supporters. They returned 12 MEPs in 2004, but completely wasted their big opportunity. […]
In the first of a series of ‘War Room briefings’ the Party Chairman Eric Pickles takes us inside CCHQ and talks about the party’s strategy. He also urges members to click on to the revived CampaignTogether webpage where you can find out which by-elections are taking place and where help is most needed across the […]
In London (King’s Cross, Victoria, Westminster, Euston, Paddington and Charing Cross) plus Birmingham (New St), Liverpool (Lime St), Newcastle, Manchester (Piccadilly), Leeds and Bristol (Temple Meads) Tory activists will be distributing 20,000 copies of this leaflet to commuters. Good stuff. I'm about to arrive at Manchester Piccadilly on my way to the MU v Portsmouth […]
Those words come from a Tory briefing from 1979 highlighted by Alistair Cooke on the BlueBlog. Nothing much changes, eh? Click here to read more of Alistair Cooke's post and scan through the archived documents.
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson writes for today’s Mail on Sunday about the massive response that greeted his response to celebrate St George’s Day: “The phones went wild. The emails and the letters started to swamp our response teams. People started crossing the road to shake my hand, pumping it up and down and […]
(Video features Jeremy Hunt, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport). The crisis facing the British pub is indeed serious. Six pubs are closing on average every day of the week. Conservatives are right to draw attention to the problem and you can sign up to the ‘Save The Great British Pub’ petition. […]
Leader writers at The Independent got very excited this morning at the town hall-style meetings being held by Nick Clegg: "When national politicians do not perpetually put themselves about in the modern way – announcing daily initiatives against telegenic backdrops; volunteering to debate on the BBC’s Today programme; offering up some segment of their domestic […]
The Conservatives will win an early election if they can convince the British people that Labour’s borrowing is irresponsible. Although speeches, telephone number statistics and op-eds are essential parts of the persuasion process the most decisive political victories have also been associated with iconic images that resonate with the public. In 1979, Labour’s record on […]
Earlier this week when conservatives.com launched a national debt clock you asked for it to be embeddable and personalised. CCHQ have obliged. Rather than showing the whole national debt the widget they’ve just launched (much more meaningfully) shows you your own share of Brown’s debt… and click here to embed on your own blog. The […]