The Iron Lady

By On January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

First I must apologise for the silence of the young tory, life has been making my life a little difficult in regards to finding time to blog and post during times of current affairs, I have had a serious talk with it and we are going to be doing that more often!

The first post of [...]

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Are things really that BAD?

By On October 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I cannot help but see that every paper and news organisation  wants to scare us in to submission, that we should not be spending because we are in such a dire economic situation that I believe we are NOT.

Yes the above is a bold statement and I will explain the reasons, I believe that [...]

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As the rubble settles…..

By On August 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

As the dust settles, buildings are demolished and local communities and businesses recover. The rioting has stopped and the country now has to answer “Why” the rioting happened.

Why?
There have been many reasons for people including current state of the job markets, prospects, the death of Mark Duggan.

But I do not for one [...]

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Whitehall & IT

By On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was shocked to read the “overheads” of IT in Whitehall, The g-cloud gave me a glimmer of hope that perhaps with the new “central government cloud” would come the central sharing of information and ability to deliver more efficiently, I am yet to see this and remain unconvinced that the government cloud will be nothing more then an an expensive IT [...]

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Murdoch’s Crumbling Empire

By On July 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

It has now become clear as a spectator to the entire Murdoch affair which has spread far from the borders of this country, in to those of the US and its European operations that the Murdoch empire is on shaky leg in the UK and could potentially feel the affects of its actions further afield.

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Immigration

By On June 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The figures are mind boggling and clearly out of control with an Oxford University Observatory calculating that 165,000 immigrants will still be arriving every year from 2015 onwards, and that the population will rise from 61.8 million today to more than 70 million in 2026. But this is against figures for the last year showing immigration is going up and [...]

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The NHS Reforms

By On June 12, 2011 · 2 Comments

As I described in the first post to this blog, this is the personal opinion outburst land zone for a young member of the Conservative Party. So these views are my own.

Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard about the halting of reforms to the NHS and the consultation period that was [...]

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An Introduction to “A Young Tory”

By On June 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to “A Young Tory” a new blog by Michael Findlay a CF Chairman of the Cheltenham branch. On this blog I shall be writing about my opinions on current political news and debates.

So a little more about myself and my involvement within politics, I have spent the last year as a CF Chairman for Cheltenham, been [...]

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