If only the issues had been the issue...

Thanks to the TB fan who emailed this one in...bit late now but cool pic.

Perks of the job...

Two days into the new job at

ConservativeHome

and it seems Mr Isaby is already enjoying the perks...

Somewhere in the projects the two campaigns met...

TB strongly recommends you watch this to the very end...who’s gonna be the baddest b-boy in Washington, who’s gonna pop to the top, who’s gonna freeze in the White House and who’s gonna do the worm all the way to Ohio?

So to settle this once and for all, the Grand Old Posse lay it down to the Democrats for a once-and-for-all dance off - winner takes all…

TB would tap that too my friend.

Hat-Tip -

Noise Porn

- if you like beats and gingers TB recommends you check it out...

What's Guido up to?

Hat-Tip Ben Brogan

CFers and YBFers in The Times

The Times

has picked up on the fact that 10 young Britons are campaigning for McCain in Ohio...

And your point is?

The increasingly irritating, obnoxious and comically bad

Conservative and Unionist

blog that is hosted in the States at "toryparty.net" (and registered to a PO Box in Vancouver that is associated with serious internet fraud,) seems to have had another session on google... The elusive tory hate blogger seems to simply trawl right-of-centre blogs all day and try make witty or obnoxious comments about what he finds. However TB doesn't really get his point today... He links to the McCain Bournmouth 2007 speech in praise of David Cameron:

“So, my friends, let me close by reiterating how grateful I am for this opportunity, and how greatly encouraged and proud I am to the see my fellow conservatives in Great Britain, under David Cameron’s very able and determined leadership, stand up to stake your claim for leadership with honesty, courage and resolve. You claim the future, and you will see more of it than I will. But I am content and inspired in my late years to know still, as I have always known, that there will always be a Britain, and that the future is in the safe hands of the two great peoples who long ago decided to make history together.”

Yes... and your point being?

For TB's American readers...

My Friend,

From the time I entered the Naval Academy at age seventeen I have been privileged and honored to serve my country.

Throughout my years of service, I've been faced with challenges where I could have taken the easy way out and given up. But I'm an American and I never give up. Instead, I choose to show courage and stand up and fight for the country I love. Today, I am asking you to stand with me and to fight for our country's future.

Our country faces enormous challenges and our next president must be ready to lead on day one. My lifetime of experience has prepared me to lead our great nation. I'm prepared to bring solutions to our economic challenges, bring our troops home in victory and improve our nation's healthcare system.

Time and time again, my country has saved my life and I owe her more than she has ever owed me. I have chosen to show my gratitude through a life of service to our country and tomorrow, you will have a choice before you.

I humbly ask you to make the choice that will allow me to serve my country a little while longer by casting your vote to elect me as your next President of the United States.

Finally, I ask that you never forget that much has been sacrificed to protect our right to vote. We must never forget those Americans who, with their courage, with their sacrifice, and with their lives, have protected our freedom. It is my great hope that you will exercise your right to vote as an American tomorrow.

I thank you for your kind support, your dedication to our cause, and most importantly I thank you for your vote.

With sincere appreciation,


John McCain

Why Home Secretaries turn into monsters...

The ever delectable Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

asked today

why Home Secretaries always turn into such monsters? It's a fair question and a good point and TB recommends that she checks out tonight's episode of

Spooks

to see what they have to put up with... A corker of the episode. TB is beginning to wonder about all those rogue gas explosions... Though this doesn't give Jaquai Smith the excuse to become the little dictator she has her heart set on being. ID cards won't save us... Spooks will!

Good to see Spooks have moved on from that horrible flirtation with leftyness and have got back to old fashioned Russian dissing.

Birmingham University CF endorses McCain

Seems another

campus branch

has endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket.

In a similar vote to Edinburgh University last week, the branch executive of Birmingham University Conservative Future are throwing their support behind not what is trendy and cool but what is the best for America and the world.

Hat-Tip-

The Young Conservative

- competition is healthy. In a way... still no link to torybear.com though - rather petty no?

Covering it live?

TB will be blogging through the night tomorrow but is anyone up for a liveblog chat from about midnight?

Happy to host one but only if there are people up for it...

Let yourself be known in the comments if you are interested.

The end is nigh...

Apologies for the lack of blogging in the last few days - TB has been busy with essays. Business resumes tomorrow with liveblogging throughout election night.

Tory Bear suggests that you check out the new

students4freedom

website and blog if you haven't already done so. Details of their upcoming conference can be found there. The world is going to be a very different place on Wednesday morning and groups like students4freedom are precisely what is going to be needed to defend against the rise of the new left. While it may start in America, don't forget for one second that Brown will try get as much of the Obama stardust to rub off on him as he can.

If you still think President Obama is a good idea then TB suggests you take a peek at this Samizdata

today

:

"Obama is a cipher. He is like a Russian matryoshka doll. Nobody except perhaps his closest associates know what is at the core. The best estimate is to look at his friends and mentors and what their values are. That topic has been thoroughly discussed and some reasonable people place him solidly in a group of hard core totalitarians. If we ignore his promises shifting like smoke on the wind, his closest core group seems to be fired by hatred and revenge against America in general and the US Constitution in particular. Certainly that is what his confidants and advisers (and wife) say in public."

"...already 43% of American 'tax payers' pay no taxes. We are getting dangerously close to the point where the people who net more off of government outnumber the people who pay more into it. If we cross that threshold of voters taking versus voters paying, it is a point of no return. It appears certain that we will pass that point early in an Obama administration."

This election has been going on so long it is hard to remember what watching the news or blogging was like without it. After the mammoth primary season scores of big names have fallen by the wayside - careers and dreams shattered and billions of dollars poured in to the worlds most elaborate smoke and mirrors. Our elections pale in comparison to the excitement and depth of a US race and although TB fully expects to be drowning his sorrows come about 5am when the Mac finally throws in the towel (and Mrs Palin is sent back from whence she came,) it's been one hell of a ride...

The only comfort left is that great quote from his RNC nomination speech, is their a glimmer of hope?



"Nothing is inevitable here, we're Americans, we never give up, we never quit. We never hide from history -we make history. Stand up and fight"

A report from the stump...

TB is rather jealous of the YBF team who are out in the states campaigning for McCain Palin...

TB tried his utmost to get out there but the old degree had to come first sadly. They even got to see Arnie and the Mac at a rally in Ohio...

The sunday press was a sickening read of pro-messiah adoration.



Is it too late to stop?

With a heavy heart TB has to conclude yes he can.

Vote McCain or...

...Arnie will be knocking on your door.



"Barack Obama can't do anything about his skinny legs and scrawny arms but he really should put some meat on his policies... John McCain has served his country longer in a PoW camp than Barack Obama has served in the Senate...

I play an action hero, John McCain is an action hero...

America cannot afford Barack Obama - just as Europe is rolling back its 'spread the wealth ' policies we don't need them in America..."

Hat-Tip ConHome

The last word on the Osborne donation saga...

Congratulations to

Donal Blaney

who has

scalped

Raf Sanchez the editor of York University's left wing campus rag "Nouse" over the

illegal donation

scandal to the Obama campaign.

What TB found interesting was the Labour PPC's (whose idea the fundraiser was,) response:

"In a joint statement Hazelgrove and Sanchez said: “As far as we know it is not a crime to have a bad idea and then not act on it in either this country or the United States. No money was exchanged and none will be. Nor did we solicit, it was just an idea we decided against.”

Hazelgrove remains a parliamentary candidate. At the time of going to print, Sanchez is understood to be preparing to resign from his editorial post."

"As far as we know it is not a crime to have a bad idea and then not act on it." For all the stink that Labour kicked up over the Osborne donation nonstory, it's nice to know that the Labour grassroots are on the Shadow Chancellors side and agree with his defence.

The nouse is tightening on Hazelgrove...

haha sorry TB couldn't resist that last line

Exeter beach party

Last week TB did a small call to arms to start sending in video content of what Conservative Future is up to around the country. You can watch the video in the TBtv player on the right. Keep sending TB your stuff...
Exeter CF have sent this video in talking about their recent Sex on the Beach club night that apparently saw over 300 attending. That is damn good for any campus event and the organisers discuss it in the video below...

However TB has just one recommendation... It might be wise to tag the video with some slightly more umm respectable content because at the moment, as you can see below YouTube has jumped to some conclusions:

Click to enlarge

This sort of thing has happened before. Joking apart it sounds like the event was a storming success and similar events should be put on across the country. It's nights like this that show just how much of a force CF has become on campuses across the country and no doubt made the branch a hefty bit of cash...

The final push...

TB was rather chuffed with the American blogs that linked to his remix of John McCain's stand up and fight speech. However that was a couple of months back and he was beginning to think no one was listening to it in the run up to the big day...

Until he saw this on his Messenger contact list:

For those of you that missed the tune you can watch it below or download the MP3 here.



Send it on to your McCain supporting comrades across the pond... They need all the help they can get for that final fight.

Nottingham says No.

TB understands that Nottingham University has begun a disaffiliation campaign from the NUS. It is not clear at this point if CF are involved but no doubt they will enter the fray in what is set to become a pitched campus battle.

Conservative Future are big players in Nottingham and as far as TB can tell the student population has a strong right of centre base. The last time a disaffliation campaign was run (by CFer Edward Keene,) the union staff were very worried it would pass...

This could get interesting...

Social Action saves the world...

Just when Tory Bear thought that the CF gossip had gone a bit quiet recently, news of a new super exciting, super secret, super project has just reached TBHQ...

TB understands that Conservative Future will be recording a special version of "Do They Know it's Christmas?" and continuing the style of this year's fresher recruitment material, special t-shirts have been ordered for the fundraising event for the mysterious project.

This is all hush hush of course because apparently no one wants to make it obvious that this is a CF project for fear of putting off members of the Shadow Cabinet from singing on the track. Apparently the whole thing is effectively being distanced from the whole Party, so TB can't really see who is going to come out looking all glossy from this. other than the specific people organising it. It's almost as if they are just in it for personal aggrandisement...

TB is not sure at this point whether Bob Geldof is involved yet.

New CF website under development...

TB has heard that Conservative Future will finally get a new website that is currently under construction. For months now the good aspects of the

executive blog

have far exceeded the poor official

.com

site.

The site needs to be updated reguarly, not only with news but pictures, video and interactive content too. And please no more pictures like this...

Anyone going to the current official CF site can't be blamed for saying no thanks...

Another great idea from Obama...

Obama is really pulling out all the stops to show his economic credentials in the final week of this campaign. In these times of economic downturn and faltering markets, small businesses are really feeling the full force of these declines.



Is it really a good idea then to encourage a mass movement to pull sickies on election day? Say

two million

sheep were to blindly follow the messiahs word then the US economy would be hit by a $300 million doller loss. Great idea.

Let's put this idiot in the White House.