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7:00am Saturday 7th February 2009 in
Tory leader David Cameron is giving people the chance to quiz him face-to-face when he visits Sussex.
The MP will be at the Old Market Arts Centre, in Hove, to talk to people living in Brighton and Hove, from 6.45pm to 8pm on Friday.
Conservative candidates Mike Weatherley, Dr David Bull and Simon Kirby said: "The point of these meetings is for David Cameron to hear directly from people about their opinions and concerns.
"It's a great opportunity for everyone – of any political persuasion – to come along and raise their issues, questions and concerns with him.
"Across the country, there are obviously real concerns over issues such as the recession, the pressures on homeowners and small businesses.
"It is the members of the public who set the agenda for the evening. Whatever the issue or concern, it will be answered."
Cameron Direct is a Conservative Party initiative where the Party Leader responds directly to members of the public on issues of concern to them. The visit is part of a nationwide series of events to support the initiative.
The event is free and open to all residents of Brighton and Hove but tickets have to be obtained in advance.
To apply email camerondirect@kemptownca.co.uk or phone 01273 358300.
Comments(39)
Osama bin there
says...
9:02am Sat 7 Feb 09
william of orange
says...
9:34am Sat 7 Feb 09
TheInsider
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9:37am Sat 7 Feb 09
NoWaySeriously
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10:24am Sat 7 Feb 09
william of orange wrote:Wrong. They've been polling way lower than that. 6% at the last by-election in West Sussex. No-one really takes the BNP seriously as they have no real policies. "Kicking out the darkies" is not a policy. It's almost as retarded as UKIPs single policy; Get Out of Europe.
Get used to it Osama...he's your next PM!
(Not my ideal choice either but he's going to walk election 2010)...the question is will the disgruntled, annoyed, betrayed electorate stop at the Tories on the ballot paper...or will they go a little further to the right??
A certain party who must remain nameless (because if we ignore them they will go away - not) has been polling 20-30% recently at by-elections in traditional Labour working class areas.
Thursday night in Manchester they polled 29.5% of the vote and increased their share by 2% on last May.
Thanks Labour for screwing up the country that much that you let that little genie out of the bag!
davyboy
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11:11am Sat 7 Feb 09
TheInsider wrote:it's only me.
Who is David Cameron?
Osama bin there
says...
11:12am Sat 7 Feb 09
NoWaySeriously wrote:To be honest, they are the party I'll almost certainly vote for in the next election. The alternative (for me) is to not vote at all, and if I did that it would be for the first time in 35 years.
william of orange wrote:Wrong. They've been polling way lower than that. 6% at the last by-election in West Sussex. No-one really takes the BNP seriously as they have no real policies. "Kicking out the darkies" is not a policy. It's almost as retarded as UKIPs single policy; Get Out of Europe.
Get used to it Osama...he's your next PM!
(Not my ideal choice either but he's going to walk election 2010)...the question is will the disgruntled, annoyed, betrayed electorate stop at the Tories on the ballot paper...or will they go a little further to the right??
A certain party who must remain nameless (because if we ignore them they will go away - not) has been polling 20-30% recently at by-elections in traditional Labour working class areas.
Thursday night in Manchester they polled 29.5% of the vote and increased their share by 2% on last May.
Thanks Labour for screwing up the country that much that you let that little genie out of the bag!
If they had a few more reasonable policies and a grip on reality, maybe they'd be in with a (scary) chance. But as it is, we may as well live in a two-party system; the one-eyes Scottish idiot or the bike-riding English ponce.
You know, there IS another choice. And he has been talking more sense than ALL the other idiots put together... LIB DEM. Yep, I said it. We have a THIRD party to choose from. "Oh, whats the point? It's a wasted vote". NOT IF YOU ALL VOTE FOR THEM. Is it not time to give someone COMPLETELY different a chance? I think so. Lets go Orange in 2009/10.
The Garden Slug
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11:27am Sat 7 Feb 09
Osama bin there
says...
11:43am Sat 7 Feb 09
The Garden Slug wrote:Nice to see your level of debate is up to its normal standard, mr slug..
Rather have David Cameron as PM than a One Eyed Scottish idiot!
TheInsider
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12:21pm Sat 7 Feb 09
AngieRS
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2:21pm Sat 7 Feb 09
Jim BB
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2:37pm Sat 7 Feb 09
william of orange
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2:38pm Sat 7 Feb 09
NoWaySeriously wrote:
william of orange wrote: Get used to it Osama...he's your next PM! (Not my ideal choice either but he's going to walk election 2010)...the question is will the disgruntled, annoyed, betrayed electorate stop at the Tories on the ballot paper...or will they go a little further to the right?? A certain party who must remain nameless (because if we ignore them they will go away - not) has been polling 20-30% recently at by-elections in traditional Labour working class areas. Thursday night in Manchester they polled 29.5% of the vote and increased their share by 2% on last May. Thanks Labour for screwing up the country that much that you let that little genie out of the bag!Wrong. They've been polling way lower than that. 6% at the last by-election in West Sussex. No-one really takes the BNP seriously as they have no real policies. "Kicking out the darkies" is not a policy. It's almost as retarded as UKIPs single policy; Get Out of Europe. If they had a few more reasonable policies and a grip on reality, maybe they'd be in with a (scary) chance. But as it is, we may as well live in a two-party system; the one-eyes Scottish idiot or the bike-riding English ponce. You know, there IS another choice. And he has been talking more sense than ALL the other idiots put together... LIB DEM. Yep, I said it. We have a THIRD party to choose from. "Oh, whats the point? It's a wasted vote". NOT IF YOU ALL VOTE FOR THEM. Is it not time to give someone COMPLETELY different a chance? I think so. Lets go Orange in 2009/10.
The Garden Slug
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3:50pm Sat 7 Feb 09
AngieRS
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4:11pm Sat 7 Feb 09
quedula
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4:22pm Sat 7 Feb 09
yorkie44
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7:23pm Sat 7 Feb 09
The Garden Slug
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7:31pm Sat 7 Feb 09
AngieRS wrote:1) Major had an election after around 15 months as PM
Nor was Major at first so the point of having a go at Brown for not being elected in a general election doesn't really hold water, and Prime Ministers aren't voted in by the electorate anyway.
william of orange
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10:26pm Sat 7 Feb 09
Osama bin there
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10:37pm Sat 7 Feb 09
The Garden Slug wrote:No, Cameron won't be good for the UK. He's useless, as is the current government.
David Cameron will be good for the Uk, much better than the Bully that is Crash Gordon, scruffy, one eyed, way out of hid depth AND Never correctly elected.
Go now Gordon, and take your rabble of a shadow cabinet with you
TheInsider
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1:58pm Sun 8 Feb 09
The Garden Slug
says...
2:51pm Sun 8 Feb 09
TheInsider wrote:Funny though...for all their faults they never brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy! (unlike 'crash Gordon - the one eyed scottish idiot!'
Well done Osama. New Labour are a load of horrible socialist toffs who think they know about ordinary people yet send their kids to private schools while taking them ski-ing and touring Tuscany, while the Tories are stuck in a Toff time warp. How can people who have been to Eton have any idea whatsoever about modern Britain. Unfortunately the party still attracts youngish posh public schoolboys and their dreadful "Yuppie 80s" wives who behave as if Britain is still some colonial power. It would be impossible for them to understand today's word. They should stick to being accountants and jobs which do not require human contact. Just recall Boris Johnson making that embarrassing speech about ping pong during the Olympic hand over. Most of us sat waiting for a horrible faux pas to unfold because that is what we expect from these social incompetents. This outdated Tory party is represented clearly at local level by Theobald driving around in a Jag and dumping it in a disabled parking bay. They are so stereotypical sometimes I think I am watching a BBC comedy drama with over exaggerated comedy characters.
Osama bin there
says...
4:22pm Sun 8 Feb 09
The Garden Slug wrote:Do I need to remind you about the Norman Lamont Black Wednesday fiasco in 1992? Well, I obviously do, as you seem to have forgotten it. We were forced out of the exchange rate mechanism (ERM).
TheInsider wrote:Funny though...for all their faults they never brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy! (unlike 'crash Gordon - the one eyed scottish idiot!'
Well done Osama. New Labour are a load of horrible socialist toffs who think they know about ordinary people yet send their kids to private schools while taking them ski-ing and touring Tuscany, while the Tories are stuck in a Toff time warp. How can people who have been to Eton have any idea whatsoever about modern Britain. Unfortunately the party still attracts youngish posh public schoolboys and their dreadful "Yuppie 80s" wives who behave as if Britain is still some colonial power. It would be impossible for them to understand today's word. They should stick to being accountants and jobs which do not require human contact. Just recall Boris Johnson making that embarrassing speech about ping pong during the Olympic hand over. Most of us sat waiting for a horrible faux pas to unfold because that is what we expect from these social incompetents. This outdated Tory party is represented clearly at local level by Theobald driving around in a Jag and dumping it in a disabled parking bay. They are so stereotypical sometimes I think I am watching a BBC comedy drama with over exaggerated comedy characters.
TheInsider
says...
4:47pm Sun 8 Feb 09
The Garden Slug
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6:03pm Sun 8 Feb 09
Osama bin there
says...
8:17pm Sun 8 Feb 09
The Garden Slug wrote:And why do you think, then that the Tories were kicked out for the last 12 years?
Fact is all Labour governments end their days on the verge of Bankruptcy , looking for the IMF to bail us out, Happened in the 1970's and will happen in 2009/2010. They overspend on public services, never improving them, then wallop!!!! the taxes go up, unemployment rises and they wonder why they will be kicked out for a generation.
And to add insult to injury, their leader goes to the Cenotaph to lay a wreath dressed in a 'donkey jacket'!
TheInsider
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11:11pm Sun 8 Feb 09
Osama bin there
says...
9:18am Mon 9 Feb 09
Supermodel
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2:28pm Mon 9 Feb 09
Supermodel
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2:28pm Mon 9 Feb 09
william of orange
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9:54pm Mon 9 Feb 09
Supermodel wrote:
I, for one, sincerely hope that David Cameron is the next PM and rids us off the mess that this incompetent, totalitarian government has got us into. I personally don't care if he went to Eton or Whitehawk Comp. All I want is a Prime Minister who will not bullsh*t us and have solutions to get us out of this awful mess. And that he does. For those of you thinking of voting for the BNP think again. They are nothing more than a protest party whose policies are nothing more than a joke. If you seriously think they are interested in you then you are sorely mistaken. Finally, before you "celebrate" the death of Margaret Thatcher, let me remind you all that under her and John Major's rule we were never in such a mess as we are now.
wolf
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6:09am Tue 10 Feb 09
Osama bin there wrote:Well Sade my thoughts entirely,bunch of crooks, who could forget Black Wednesday !!! Cameron doesn't have a clue ( man with a plan )
The Garden Slug wrote:Do I need to remind you about the Norman Lamont Black Wednesday fiasco in 1992? Well, I obviously do, as you seem to have forgotten it. We were forced out of the exchange rate mechanism (ERM).
TheInsider wrote:Funny though...for all their faults they never brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy! (unlike 'crash Gordon - the one eyed scottish idiot!'
Well done Osama. New Labour are a load of horrible socialist toffs who think they know about ordinary people yet send their kids to private schools while taking them ski-ing and touring Tuscany, while the Tories are stuck in a Toff time warp. How can people who have been to Eton have any idea whatsoever about modern Britain. Unfortunately the party still attracts youngish posh public schoolboys and their dreadful "Yuppie 80s" wives who behave as if Britain is still some colonial power. It would be impossible for them to understand today's word. They should stick to being accountants and jobs which do not require human contact. Just recall Boris Johnson making that embarrassing speech about ping pong during the Olympic hand over. Most of us sat waiting for a horrible faux pas to unfold because that is what we expect from these social incompetents. This outdated Tory party is represented clearly at local level by Theobald driving around in a Jag and dumping it in a disabled parking bay. They are so stereotypical sometimes I think I am watching a BBC comedy drama with over exaggerated comedy characters.
"Black Wednesday, as 16 September 1992 came to be known, provided one of the most memorable failures of post-war British economic policy." Evan Davis. BBC website.
And lets' not even get into the Tory sell off of all the Utility companies - back to the people who already owned them!!
With very few exceptions all politicians are self serving, power hungry arrogant sods, and it doesn't matter which side of the fence they are.
TheInsider
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10:42pm Tue 10 Feb 09
william of orange
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12:56am Wed 11 Feb 09
geewhizz
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1:34pm Thu 12 Feb 09
william of orange wrote:wake me up when you've finished...
I know we disagree on this one TheInsider but we are going to have to agree to disagree. What you say about them is merely rhetoric.... a repeat of past old, somewhat tired insults. What I say about them however are facts ...support for them is rapidly growing....their website is the most visited of ALL political websites and is steadily gaining more hits each month (they give you the link to Alexa at the bottom of the home page on the BNP website to prove it - see the graphs for yourself!)...a real majority of the public support their policies. People don't vote for them because they THINK its a wasted vote...last year Margaret Hodge said "the BNP can win here" in Dagenham and lo and behold as soon as she said it 11 of the 12 council seats up for election that year went to the BNP from Labour. (It didn't get reported but it doesn't mean it didn't happen! lol) I did trawl through the list of BNP members...mainly to see if I recognised any..I saw ordinary names, men and women...doctors, lawyers, teachers, office workers, the retired....and I have met some BNP supporters as well...I work with some and they have convinced me to vote for the BNP (at least at the Euro elections). You see the British have a very weird sense of humour...sending Nick Griffin (arguably Britains most ardent anti-European) to represent us in Europe has to be the funniest thing that will happen this year. A year when unemployment will hit 2 Million, negative equity returns, house prices crash, companies fail and our currency becomes worthless. Not much to laugh about is there? But sending Nick Griffin to Brussels as an MEP....now that's hilarious!!!! lol The backlash against this Government won't stop at the Tory party gaining power. Expect to see more BNP councillors after June, BNP MEPs (plural) and perhaps even the odd BNP council. (Stoke, Dagenham and Barking). They may be inexperienced as politicians...but do you know what...I like my politicians that way! It keeps them on their toes. The writing is on the wall...I see even Ed Balls hinted at it yesterday when he said that this depression (the worst in 100 years) will change the face of British politics forever. He knows whats coming - not a BNP Government but the Nationalist voice finally being heard - long overdue in this PC correct, liberal left land. Whatever we say on this blog...June elections are only 4 months away...the economy will get worse in that time, unemployment will continue to rise, 200,000 people a month are slipping into negative equity...and there will be more Labour sleaze as the rats feather their nests before they get booted out in 2010...and BNP support will continue to grow, day after day. Get used to it! They are here and here to stay....unlike many Liebour MEP's and councillors after June! As for them not turning up to council mettings...I guess thats a risk I'm prepared to take.
william of orange
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8:21pm Thu 12 Feb 09
eemgee
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12:39pm Fri 13 Feb 09
a_j95
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1:41pm Fri 13 Feb 09
geewhizz wrote:The fact of the matter is, the BNP is a racist, offensive, tribalistic group of xenophobic Bernard Manning fans masquerading as a political party and will never, ever, ever be taken seriously by the vast majority of intelligent and worldly wise folk. The fact that you feel so strongly and emotional about the party leads me to believe you are supremely under educated.
william of orange wrote: I know we disagree on this one TheInsider but we are going to have to agree to disagree. What you say about them is merely rhetoric.... a repeat of past old, somewhat tired insults. What I say about them however are facts ...support for them is rapidly growing....their website is the most visited of ALL political websites and is steadily gaining more hits each month (they give you the link to Alexa at the bottom of the home page on the BNP website to prove it - see the graphs for yourself!)...a real majority of the public support their policies. People don't vote for them because they THINK its a wasted vote...last year Margaret Hodge said "the BNP can win here" in Dagenham and lo and behold as soon as she said it 11 of the 12 council seats up for election that year went to the BNP from Labour. (It didn't get reported but it doesn't mean it didn't happen! lol) I did trawl through the list of BNP members...mainly to see if I recognised any..I saw ordinary names, men and women...doctors, lawyers, teachers, office workers, the retired....and I have met some BNP supporters as well...I work with some and they have convinced me to vote for the BNP (at least at the Euro elections). You see the British have a very weird sense of humour...sending Nick Griffin (arguably Britains most ardent anti-European) to represent us in Europe has to be the funniest thing that will happen this year. A year when unemployment will hit 2 Million, negative equity returns, house prices crash, companies fail and our currency becomes worthless. Not much to laugh about is there? But sending Nick Griffin to Brussels as an MEP....now that's hilarious!!!! lol The backlash against this Government won't stop at the Tory party gaining power. Expect to see more BNP councillors after June, BNP MEPs (plural) and perhaps even the odd BNP council. (Stoke, Dagenham and Barking). They may be inexperienced as politicians...but do you know what...I like my politicians that way! It keeps them on their toes. The writing is on the wall...I see even Ed Balls hinted at it yesterday when he said that this depression (the worst in 100 years) will change the face of British politics forever. He knows whats coming - not a BNP Government but the Nationalist voice finally being heard - long overdue in this PC correct, liberal left land. Whatever we say on this blog...June elections are only 4 months away...the economy will get worse in that time, unemployment will continue to rise, 200,000 people a month are slipping into negative equity...and there will be more Labour sleaze as the rats feather their nests before they get booted out in 2010...and BNP support will continue to grow, day after day. Get used to it! They are here and here to stay....unlike many Liebour MEP's and councillors after June! As for them not turning up to council mettings...I guess thats a risk I'm prepared to take.wake me up when you've finished...
a_j95
says...
1:41pm Fri 13 Feb 09
geewhizz wrote:The fact of the matter is, the BNP is a racist, offensive, tribalistic group of xenophobic Bernard Manning fans masquerading as a political party and will never, ever, ever be taken seriously by the vast majority of intelligent and worldly wise folk. The fact that you feel so strongly and emotional about the party leads me to believe you are supremely under educated.
william of orange wrote: I know we disagree on this one TheInsider but we are going to have to agree to disagree. What you say about them is merely rhetoric.... a repeat of past old, somewhat tired insults. What I say about them however are facts ...support for them is rapidly growing....their website is the most visited of ALL political websites and is steadily gaining more hits each month (they give you the link to Alexa at the bottom of the home page on the BNP website to prove it - see the graphs for yourself!)...a real majority of the public support their policies. People don't vote for them because they THINK its a wasted vote...last year Margaret Hodge said "the BNP can win here" in Dagenham and lo and behold as soon as she said it 11 of the 12 council seats up for election that year went to the BNP from Labour. (It didn't get reported but it doesn't mean it didn't happen! lol) I did trawl through the list of BNP members...mainly to see if I recognised any..I saw ordinary names, men and women...doctors, lawyers, teachers, office workers, the retired....and I have met some BNP supporters as well...I work with some and they have convinced me to vote for the BNP (at least at the Euro elections). You see the British have a very weird sense of humour...sending Nick Griffin (arguably Britains most ardent anti-European) to represent us in Europe has to be the funniest thing that will happen this year. A year when unemployment will hit 2 Million, negative equity returns, house prices crash, companies fail and our currency becomes worthless. Not much to laugh about is there? But sending Nick Griffin to Brussels as an MEP....now that's hilarious!!!! lol The backlash against this Government won't stop at the Tory party gaining power. Expect to see more BNP councillors after June, BNP MEPs (plural) and perhaps even the odd BNP council. (Stoke, Dagenham and Barking). They may be inexperienced as politicians...but do you know what...I like my politicians that way! It keeps them on their toes. The writing is on the wall...I see even Ed Balls hinted at it yesterday when he said that this depression (the worst in 100 years) will change the face of British politics forever. He knows whats coming - not a BNP Government but the Nationalist voice finally being heard - long overdue in this PC correct, liberal left land. Whatever we say on this blog...June elections are only 4 months away...the economy will get worse in that time, unemployment will continue to rise, 200,000 people a month are slipping into negative equity...and there will be more Labour sleaze as the rats feather their nests before they get booted out in 2010...and BNP support will continue to grow, day after day. Get used to it! They are here and here to stay....unlike many Liebour MEP's and councillors after June! As for them not turning up to council mettings...I guess thats a risk I'm prepared to take.wake me up when you've finished...
william of orange
says...
3:05pm Fri 13 Feb 09
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