New t-shirt...

Lefties have always had cooler t-shirts but now it's our turn to protest something. 

Under a tenner from

here

.

Freedom isn't Free

TB is still fairly gobsmacked by the Damian Green arrest so will leave it to DC with his greatest quote yet...

Image by 

YBF

.

Rant brewing...

Ouch

The Guardian have

reacted

to the Tory Bear George Osborne trance remix: 

"Here are four words you probably never thought you'd see in the same sentence: "George Osborne trance remix".

Yes, that's George, Osborne, trance and remix.

And it really does mean what it says on the tin: this video features the shadow chancellor's response to the pre-budget report overlaid with a bangin' dance soundtrack.

This deeply strange true blue mash-up comes courtesy of the Tory Bear blog.

Big shout out to the Tory massive."

Indeed.

SirAlan vs BoJo

Is

this

Alan Sugar's first move in  an attempt to become the Labour candidate for London Mayor in 2012?

He is apparently going to be fronting a government campaign to get more people into apprenticeships. While TB doesn't dispute that this is a good move and the sort of thing the government should be doing, he can't help think the Sugar part is slightly suspect. While no mention is made of whether he is being paid, Sugar is clearly cosying up to the Labour hierarchy...

TB can't see why, at this rate for Sugar to attempt to join the dying days of New Labour, would be like getting a last minute ticket on the Titanic. People love to hate him but Sugar is a bright guy and sharp. It would be an interesting fight with Boris but TB suspects the national swing in 2012 will still be in our favour, if everything goes to plan with a 2010 election.

BoJo shouldn't be too worried at this point.

Looks like Guido had a good day...

More on the "Save the Pub" campaign

here

.

Facebook, Ferrets and Scotland

Many members of CF have often wondered who Anastasia Beaumont-Bott's mystical shadow cabinet contacts were when she discusses the importance of this or that project and how the order had come from the lips of Dave the Golden One himself. Well it now it seems she does indeed have friends in high places, even if they do gently mock her:

Joking apart as Shane Greer, that guy off the telly,

notes

it's good to see politicians actually using things like Facebook properly rather than having a stale and out of date Facebook page set up by their researcher who probably went back to university after that two week internship.

As for ABB, well TB is hoping he will once again bump into her at the Conservative Future Scotland Conference this Saturday in St Andrews. He promises not to give the now infamous "ferrets in a sack" speech again, if she promises not to throw things at him like last year. 

Anyone interested in coming up for the event can find details

here. 

Oh darling...

This is pure speculation but well worth a read.

Dolly digs in...

The effect of Derek Draper on the interweb has been noted

elsewhere

today, but TB has spotted a rather irratating reminder slightly closer to home.  The GoogleAds on the right hand side of torybear.com are now being flooded by Labour Party attack ads. They are cleverely tagged as conservative ads and are cropping up all over right wing blogs purely because of what is discussed on them.

Does anyone know how TB can stop this?

Peston Peston Peston...

Robert Peston seemed close to tears this evening on the Six O'Clock News on the BBC. He kept pausing, looking down and seemed close to tears - "For those of us who grew up on pick n'mix, this is a very sad day." Tory Bear doesn't recall him being so upset when announcing Citygroup job losses, in fact he was positively revelling in it. He stated that thousands of Woolworths job losses will effect the "real" people rather than mythical fat cat bankers.

News channels are now discussing the prospect nationalising shops! How anyone has the audacity to suggest that peoples money they wouldn't choose to spend in Woolworths should be used to bail it out is frankly insane. While it is sad to see it go under, at the end of the day Woolworths had a bad business model. While the sun was shining on the credit market it was ok because they could borrow the money to hide their losses. In the cruel darkness of a recession relying on people to pop in for the odd sweet, Halloween costume, straight to DVD movie or even a broom isn't exactly the most watertight of plans and the government, all be it with a heavy heart, no doubt have fairly said no to any financial aid for Woolies.

Hat-Tip to the Silver-Fox for the heads up.

The value of money...

How ironic that the store that is famed for selling its wares for pennies will now

likely

be sold for the measly sum of £1. A sad day when Woolworths disappears. 

Something tells TB that this national institution won't be the only casualty to this recession.

Just incase you missed it...

Good on yesterday's Times for sticking it to Brown with this wounding cartoon on the front page:

Lovely tie darling...

Machiavelli

has spotted an interesting wardrobe point about our esteemed Chancellor...

Has he been cashing in on the recession inspired price slashing on the High Street?

Seems so...

Brown cancels Christmas

Over at

LondonSpin

it is being reported that there will be no CF Christmas Party this year. Traditionally the scene of much debauchery and drunkenness this event will be sorely missed. Seems Guido will have to look elsewhere for this year's Christmas tottywatch too. Without a CF election anytime soon there will be no opportunity for pissed up hacks to buy votes with their cards behind the bar or for London Transport Police to wake up an anonymous CFer who was found, full of brandy, asleep outside Westminster tube like last year. In these times of economic difficulty TB can imagine how the thinking goes - drunk CFers + camera = tabloids, but it's not as if we didn't prove ourselves capable of behaving at conference. Absolutely no complacency there. None whatsoever. Move along people, nothing to see here.

Looks like TB will just have to go to Stringfellows with the YBF posse instead. Oh well.

UPDATE: 22.00 - the CF press machine never sleeps. Just heard that there will be a Christmas Party after all. Probably a Festive Season Celebration no doubt but a lash up is on the cards all the same.

Labour have done it again - the remix

Apologies for the light blogging today, here's why:

Osborne sticking it to Labour and a bit of trance... spread it around!

Just what you need for an idle Tuesday night.

What we should be doing...

As the dust settled after yesterdays PBR... Conservative Future hit the street. All major cities were covered, as were the main railway routes out of London. Once again CF has proven to truely be the ground army of the party...

More of this, less bitching please.

Wicked whispers...

In recent weeks with the Mandy come back, the NuLabour boyz have been back at the helm of the sinking Brown ship... Interesting to note then that Ed Balls' usual posistion next to the PM at these sorts of speeches has been usurped by ultra-Blarite James Purnell who whispered to Gordon throughout George Osborne's speech.

See for yourself

here.

WTF?

TB was rather surprised to find out he had been added to the

Hizb ut-Tahir

mailing list. Daily press briefings slagging of David Cameron's

"extremist"

views and generally laying into the Tories ping into his inbox. Now don't get me wrong but they bloody serious? 

Sorry but TB won't take lectures from an organisation that hates freedom, women and Israel. Can you please kindly remove him from your mailing list. TB has no time for the filth and lies that this organisation spreads. TB is sure you can continue with your crackpot dream of a world Islamic state without having to piss him off on a daily basis.

Go away.

Quote of the Day...

Tough competition today... Darling had some corkers but the prize really must go to Christian May: 

"Is cutting 3p off the price of McVities really going to cure this recession? No. The answer lies in flat tax my friend... but that is a debate for another day."

Cigarettes and alcohol

TB sadly missed this afternoon's fun of games around the Pre Budget Report. Having now got home to SkyNews it is clear to see that this sham tactic will soon unravel. Labour today announced their long term election strategy that will culminate in Brown going to the country in spring 2010 having fobbed off and bribed voters with gimmicks and cheques here and there. He might as well just post £20 pound notes instead of election material. Labour's frenzied and desperate struggle to remain in power will wound this nation at a critical time and don't for one second believe that the Brown and co are in this for the good of the country. The leaks and briefings before today were specifically designed to knock the Tories of course and try make George Osborne slip up. He survived though and put up a good response to this farce.

But somehow despite Mandy and Alistair pulling the strings Labour have still managed to cock this up. This attempt to buy voters can not and will not work. If Labour really were in it for the people then they would know that a 2.5% decrease in VAT is not going to solve a thing. Yes it might mean that the 52 inch plasma widescreen TV that you might have had your eye on for six months will be two hundred odd quid cheaper but that will not even be an option for the people the government should be helping. The VAT drop doesn't include food - the key area where people are struggling. The most insulting part of this charade however is the fact that the VAT cut will in part be funded by a RISE in fuel tax. 

What are they smoking in the Treasury?

Not only will the fuel duty rise but so will that on alcohol and fags. Lets move away for a second shall we from the cosiness of Westminster and the ridiculous head-in-the-clouds world our government lives in and look at who these rises are going to hit the hardest. Food, fuel, fags and booze - the four things that young people and people on lower incomes will spend most, if not all of their money on. They have now been spectacularly shafted by this government. No one wins with this budget - the poor get taxed more and the rich get taxed more. The government is deluded and no wonder the BBC pundits were describing this as

socialist budget

. 

Everyone pays, no one wins.

Outside Downing Street this morning...