The Tory candidate actually sounds just like your vision of a "real Tory" given that the Tory candidate was himself leader of UKIP in 1997 before serving as deputy leader between 1997 and 2000!

Edited by legaleagle (23 Mar 2015 9.02pm)

We've got to a point now where you can't even express an opinion on a website for your own football team if it is counter to the idealized, quasi religious liberal,left propaganda on immigration. I have been banned from the BBS for highlighting issues that surround the topic and I find that disgusting. This is the Britain we now live in.
IMO Trevor Phillips is a self serving Blairite, but he is so right about inverse racism, even if he only now admits it for political gain.

Got to love someone stating 'you can't say' who then go on to say whatever it is you supposedly can't.

Edited by imbored (24 Mar 2015 4.52pm)

I was just teasing you Stirling! Though this account of the events leading to the formation of the European Movement, with a goal of "political,economic,and monetary union" for Europe is worth noting:

"From 7 to 11th May 1948, 800 delegates from around Europe as well as observers from Canada and the United States gathered in The Hague, The Netherlands for the Congress of Europe. Organised by the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity and presided over by Winston Churchill, the Congress brought together representatives from across a broad political spectrum, providing them with the opportunity to discuss ideas about the development of European Union. Important political figures such as Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, François Mitterrand, Paul-Henry Spaak, Albert Coppé and Altiero Spinelli took an active role in the congress and a call was launched for a political, economic and monetary Union of Europe. This landmark conference was to have a profound influence on the shape of the European Movement, which was created soon afterwards.

The European Movement was formally created on the 25th October 1948, when the Joint International Committee for European Unity decided to change its name. Duncan Sandys was elected President and Léon Blum, Winston Churchill, Alcide De Gasperi and Paul-Henri Spaak were elected as Honorary Presidents."

In fairness to Duncan Sandys, he was a big supporter of Ian Smith proclaiming UDI in Southern Rhodesia over the issue of "one person,one vote",so that arguably does buttress his status as having been a genuine "real Tory" of his day

Edited by legaleagle (24 Mar 2015 11.40am)

Not quite...though he did subsequently caveat the UK joining being dependent on the agreement of the Dominions.

(article by Jon Danzig,2013):

"At London’s Albert Hall, in May 1947, just a few months after his Zurich speech, Churchill spoke as Chairman and Founder of he United Europe Movement to ‘present the idea of a United Europe in which our country will play a decisive part..’

Churchill argued that Britain and France should be the, `founder-partners in this movement’ and concluded, `Britain will have to play her full part as a member of the European family’.

In October 1948, at a Conservative Mass Meeting at Llandudno, Churchill made clear that Britain held a unique position at the heart of ‘three majestic circles’: the ‘Empire and Commonwealth’, ‘the English speaking world’ and a ‘United Europe’.

Churchill described these three circles as ‘co-existent’ and ‘linked together’. He said, ‘We are the only country which has a great part in every one of them. We stand, in fact, at the very point of junction, and here in this Island at the centre of the seaways and perhaps of the airways also, we have the opportunity of joining them all together.’

The European Union itself lists Sir Winston Churchill as one of its ‘eleven founding fathers’".

Edited by legaleagle (25 Mar 2015 8.07pm)