Friday, 30 December 2005

Our new site Graphic

Our brilliant new site graphic has arrived.

Thanks to Thomas Wales, Secretary of Wharfedale and Airedale Conservative Future, who devised and designed it. Cheers mate.

BTW: What you can see as the header now is actually version 2. I, Thomas Wales has updated the design so that the title is clearer and on the left rather than right of the page. Hope you all like it.
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New years resolutions...

Ahhh esteemed friends, I must apologise for my recent long abscences and significant lack of articles. I have been unfortunatly bogged down with University work, which I have incidently still not completed. *sigh*

Well... I think it is time I revealed my new years resolutions;

The first is that I am going to keep up to date on MakeSocialismHistory and make time for writing articles, I feel somewhat of a fool as I look at both Guido's "5th November" and Tim Montgomeries "ConservativeHome" websites, as they not only put up a great deal of material but also of very high quality. This is what I am going to be aiming to do. Anyone who wishes to contribute anything, as Mr Keith Stadring has done in the past, is more than welcome to send it to me and I will have a look and providing that it isn't too likely to get the site shut down or me put in Belmarsh, it will go up with full credit to the author.

The second resolution is to go active with the whole MakeSocialismHistory project, (Forums, Polls, Articles by MPs, Concillors and fellow Bloggers) I aim to use MSH to unite Conservatives through contacts at Universities and local associations. By doing this we can present a full throttle presence within Britain which will show the Country that we are a united front against Labour and a party with beliefs such as Meritocracy, British rule for Britain from Westminster not Brussels, ridding us of this utterly ridiculas Political Correctness persecution which is currently destorying British Society and championing the Low Tax economic model; inspiring growth and the right for the Britons pound to stay in his or her pocket.

All this will start as of the New Year and I hope to hear from you with ideas of your own, please feel free to email me if you have a suggestion or would like to get invlolved. So for now I will say, have a jolly good new year and I will see you all in 2006.

Pip pip.
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Sunday, 25 December 2005

All hail Philip Davies MP

Philip Davies

All hail Philip Davies MP for Shipley, one of the few of the new intake of Conservative MPs who is actually discussing decent tory ideals, like saying bollocks to Political Correctness.

We at MakeSocialismHistory despise Political Correctness and support John and Laura Midgley in their fight against this most socialist and European of policies, we salute Philip in his campaign against the evil doings it intends upon us all.
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Letwin the Lefty

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Oliver Leftwing has anounced that we are now for wealth distribution... Dear god.

Forgive me I have had to try to drink this headline away using several means - Gin, Wine, Beer, Bourbon, Lager, Cider...

It won't bloody budge.

Bollocks.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Plaid Cymru alliance next Mr Cameron? or perhaps Sinn Fein?

Well, just when I thought Mr Cameron may slow his continuation of truly barmy and quite perverse policy what should I discover, but an article announcing that the Cameron 'Conservative' party now support devolution.

Does NOBODY remember the fact that we are Unionists? or is it that Mr Cameron is using this as a taster for things to come? Perhaps he will invite Alec Salmond to be part of his wider more accepting and 'compassionate Conservative' party, or perhaps he will go down the road of forgiving and forgetting the terrorist pension plan that is Sinn Fein? God only knows what is next but I wait with bated breath and a stiff drink for when it arrives.

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Tuesday, 20 December 2005

Intelligent design?

Judge Rules Against Pennsylvania

'Biology' Curriculum


By MARTHA RAFFAELE
Associated Press Writer
Published December 20, 2005, 10:25 AM CST

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- "Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.

Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said. Several members repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.

The school board policy, adopted in October 2004, was believed to have been the first of its kind in the nation.

"The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the Board who voted for the ID Policy," Jones wrote.

The board's attorneys had said members were seeking to improve science education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin's theory that evolution develops through natural selection. Intelligent-design proponents argue that the theory cannot fully explain the existence of complex life forms.

The plaintiffs challenging the policy argued that intelligent design amounts to a secular repackaging of creationism, which the courts have already ruled cannot be taught in public schools. The judge agreed.

"We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom," he wrote in his 139-page opinion.

The Dover policy required students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The statement said Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps." It refers students to an intelligent-design textbook, "Of Pandas and People," for more information.

Jones wrote that he wasn't saying the intelligent design concept shouldn't be studied and discussed, saying its advocates "have bona fide and deeply held beliefs which drive their scholarly endeavors."

But, he wrote, "our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom."

The controversy divided the community and galvanized voters to oust eight incumbent school board members who supported the policy in the Nov. 8 school board election.

Said the judge: "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."

The board members were replaced by a slate of eight opponents who pledged to remove intelligent design from the science curriculum.

Eric Rothschild, the lead attorney for the families who challenged the policy, called the ruling "a real vindication for the parents who had the courage to stand up and say there was something wrong in their school district."

Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., which represented the school board, did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.

The dispute is the latest chapter in a long-running debate over the teaching of evolution dating back to the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee biology teacher John T. Scopes was fined $100 for violating a state law that forbade teaching evolution. The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed his conviction on a technicality, and the law was repealed in 1967.

Jones heard arguments in the fall during a six-week trial in which expert witnesses for each side debated intelligent design's scientific merits. Other witnesses, including current and former school board members, disagreed over whether creationism was discussed in board meetings months before the curriculum change was adopted.

The case is among at least a handful that have focused new attention on the teaching of evolution in the nation's schools.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court in Georgia heard arguments over whether evolution disclaimer stickers placed in a school system's biology textbooks were unconstitutional. A federal judge in January ordered Cobb County school officials to immediately remove the stickers, which called evolution a theory, not a fact.

In November, state education officials in Kansas adopted new classroom science standards that call the theory of evolution into question.

THIS ARTICLE IS TAKEN FROM THE Chicago Tribune Website which can be found here.
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005

The Legacy of Blair?


Misunderstood visionary or incidious meglamaniac?



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(Positive) discrimination

It is early days as yet with Mr Cameron. I very much suspect that the 40% figure which we got had something to do with the fact that the man completely out manovered Blair on his first outing. This does deserve credit and I suspect that the country was thrilled to see that there are people within the Official oppostion with some teeth.

I would point out however that Mr Cameron is in the process of gathering a potentially violent internal storm and the good work he has done for the party could soon disappear should a civil war break out in the ranks. The man (whether he is doing it for a good cause or not) is trying to bring in a discrimination policy on how the party selects its candidates for Parliament.

I was at his speach on Monday where he announced this and I am myself less than impressed. Is this because I am a white male with aspirations of becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament? I think not, I just do not believe we may discriminate in any way, shape, form or name, it does not matter whether you are calling it positive or not, it is discrimination and I find it utterly abhorrent.

I agree whole heartedly that we should headhunt the best women, the best from Ethnic minority backgrounds and yes also the best men, whatever colour or creed. I also support the idea of mentoring candidates, this can only be a good thing and I whole heartedly support this idea. We may perhaps think about having Primarys to help select our candidates, I can see merit to this, as it gives everyone an opportunity to see what the man or woman is made of. However we cannot and must not begin to discriminate between candidates on the basis of the colour of their skin or difference in their gender. Our party believes in giving the best candidates the best possible chance, we can all see this in our education policies, what message would we be sending out to not only our own membership but also to the country if we did not follow this line of ideolgy in politics too. The best person for the job, that is how we have selected our candidates in the past and that is how it must continue. There is not I believe a problem in the selection of women as candidates so much as there is problem in the fact that there are not the numbers of women and people from the ethnic minority backgrounds coming forward. This is our problem and cannot be solved through any form of discrimination.
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'Ming' Campbell

Menzies Campbell? An old fool with no more love for the general public as we have for him. The fact that the great eejits name is even coming up shows us all just how desperate the Social... oh no sorry, LIBERAL Democrats are in the face of a revitalised Conservative party.

Is it not curious that the point where they have moved from being a Fringe group of hypocrites and Kn*bs with no policies to a supposed coalition for the Liberal Upper class, is the point in time that the Tory party was pretty much in the worst position it has had the misfortune to find itself in since 1906?

And that even then they couldn’t actually capitalise as (A) They don’t actually stand for anything except for disagreeing with everything everyone else ever says, and (B) A significant part of their party election funds went on the campaign of trying to "Decapitate" the Tory party leadership at the 2005 polls and as they only got ONE head I would suspect that there will be certain people unwilling to reinvest in such an enterprise. The fact that their antics actually provoked the Tory vote numbers to go up in a large portion of these seats will surely add to this and perhaps make people realise that the LibDems are a bunch of foolish trouble-causers with little else to sooth their bored pathetic minds.

It would suggest that they are a spent Protest voters group with no principles (this can be seen in their tactics of trying to unseat local politians) and their pathetic need to act like the sickly old trout of a Great-Aunt just makes you just wish they would die and leave everyone in peace instead of wasting everyone’s time and patience.
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Sunday, 11 December 2005

Hague takes Pitt and Wilberforce advisory role with Walden Media

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William Pitt the Younger (on the left) and William Wilberforce.

According to an article in today’s Telegraph business section (on the back page, bottom right), the new Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague will advise on the film Amazing Grace. The film will star Michael Gambon, Albert Finney and Ioan Gruffudd and is based on the battle to end Slavery in the British Empire, the film will focus on the roles of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce.

The Films producers Walden Media have this week been celebrating the release of the epic The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe and have confirmed that Mr Hague who wrote the critically acclaimed biography of Pitt the Younger, and is currently in the process of writing the follow up on Wilberforce will indeed be advising on the film. Walden’s spokesman Mr Granat added that both Political parties had been very co-operative over the issue including "Two Jabs" Prescott who is an MP for Hull (the birthplace of Wilberforce).

The question is now whether the American Hollywood machine is going to destroy this piece of British history as is their usual heinous way with this sort of project (previous acts of national historical vandalism by the United states of the Americas include Braveheart, The Patriot and U-571)

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