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In the past local members who wished to join online had to join the Party via the main Conservative Party site in London.  However, now members can renew their subscriptions, or make a donation to the Party, via our very own payment Gateway using PayPal.  We accept all credit and debit [...]

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Northern Ireland, England and Wales are today being hit by an ill-judged strike which is crippling local services.
The members of the Unite union say a 2.45% pay increase is impossible to accept as it falls below current inflation. While this may be the case, the decision to strike does local council workers, and the general [...]

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The Chancellor has today announced that the proposed 2p increase in fuel duty is to be postponed yet again.
This news comes as no surprise. With pressure increasing on the Prime Minister to do something constructive to help families and businesses in the UK, the idea that a further tax increase could be applied in the autumn [...]

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The news that a Labour MEP has criticised the comments of the DUP’s Iris Robinson on homosexuality comes as no surprise.
The surprise, however, comes with the response of the DUP to Mr Cashman’s publication of the letter he sent to Mrs Robinson.
The party statement reads; ‘If Mr Cashman was genuinely interested in hearing from Mrs Robinson, he [...]

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According to BBC News several retailers have decided to open on the 12th of July.  As this year the 12th falls on one what should be one of the busiest Saturdays of the year, this seems to make obvious business sense.
However, it also marks yet another instance of the normalisation of our society.  Increasingly people, regardless [...]

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A report today by the Institute for Public Policy Research says the Formula, which calculates how the devolved nations are financed, is ‘inequitable and could undermine the Union unless reformed’.
Broken down, the report shows that public spending per head in Northern Ireland each year is £5,684. This figure is 21% above the UK average and [...]

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Is there anyone left who hasn’t criticised the Minister for Education?
In yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph the Children’s Commissioner, Patricia Lewsley, noted her concern that the process undertaken by Ms Ruane has done nothing to take on board the views of young people with regard to the way ahead.
The Minister has now seemingly managed the impossible. All shades of [...]

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As the Government considers putting an extra 2p on fuel duty this autumn, the Conservatives have today announced proposals for a ‘Fair Fuel Stabiliser’.
Speaking this morning, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said that had the proposed Conservative system been used for the 2008 Budget, motorists would curently be saving 5p per litre on fuel costs. The [...]

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“Within the last year we have overtaken India as the country with the longest tax code in the world”…that is the verdict of the Conservative Party review group on tax simplification, chaired by former Chancellor Lord Howe, unveiled today.
The 10p tax debacle showed voters how further tweaking of an already over-complicated system leads to confusion [...]

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‘In support of Tim Collins’
 
Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph former British Army Colonel Tim Collins makes a strong case as to why the detention of terrorist suspects for up to 42 days plays into the hands of our enemies.
Based on his first hand military experience in both Northern Ireland and Iraq Colonel Collins is, unlike [...]

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