Tim Montgomerie from Conservative Home has said that the decision has nothing to do with the expense scandal although other Conservatives have claimed otherwise.
I’ve been impressed by Ian Taylor and will be sorry to see him go. I don’t say that because of his European views – I take a far more sceptical view – but because he has been a good constituency MP with a strong independent streak who is prepared to speak his mind. He recently spoke out in favour of the expansion of Heathrow against the populist anti-aviation line taken by Theresa Villiers and the Conservative front-bench.
Yet, the response to the announcement on Conservative Home has been shocking:
"A Conservative gain"
"Good Riddance"
"Hoorah! Now things really ARE looking up."
No doubt we will end up with another Cameron clone and these people will be happy. Yet Parliament will be poorer for the loss of Ian Taylor. We need more independent minded MPs, not the sycophantic careerists that will now apply for this vacancy in droves.
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I've also been impressed with him but then I'm not a Tory. Mind you, I gather that he is very much in favour of expanding Heathrow...
Sorry, for posting off topic, old Cobden, but I was wondering if you'd like to shove a button on your blog highlighting the Freedom to Trade campaign (http://www.freedomtotrade.org/).
You can find two options here: http://freedomtotrade.org/resources/websitebuttons
I have the full HTML to simply paste in but it won't let me post it here. If you're interested, drop me an e-mail and I'll send it right over.
Thanks - and feel free to delete this comment once it's served its purpose.
Julian
Thanks for your email. I'm happy to display the F2T logo but my lack of technical skills means that I have totally failed to download it from the website.
I tried to send you an email for the HTML info at Orange by Name but it bounced back.
Ugh, sorry, that e-mail's down. Could you send one instead to julian.harris -AT- liberal-vision.org?
Many thanks for this.
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