The right has little cause for alarm

It is to his credit that nuance is a word inimical to Lord Tebbitt. The unashamedly independent voice of the past has written a cutting piece about the coalition, the Lib Dems and the Oldham East by-election. He says:

‘A Lib Dem win would tilt the Coalition even farther Left and away from Conservative policies.’

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Gareth Roberts

The ‘grooming gangs’ delusion is finally being shattered

Many Tory ministers joke that they thought themselves right wing until meeting their Liberal colleague. This is a radical government that many on the right can cheer. Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms are intended to make work pay and break the cycle of dependency; Michael Gove’s education reforms are market orientated; Grant Shapps’ housing reform is based on the draconian but realistic precept that a house is not for life; Eric Pickles has local government by the short and curlies; spending cuts are forcing the state to withdraw from private life.