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Topic: Tories
Welcome to Britain's "pasty row".

Crikey says: this editorial may contain traces of pastry puns

Crikey Says

Mar 29, 2012

4

You have to admire a certain kind of British wit, that steers a scandal involving a feline, from gaining the suffix "-gate", becoming instead "catflap". <b>Guy Rundle</b> reports on the Tory party conference from London.

From the Tory front line: London in a catflap

Europe

Oct 05, 2011

Mark this week well in your datebook, UK pollie watchers, for history may recall it as the one in which, in the green shires of England, David Cameron's Con-Lib government condemned itself to a single term.

Rundle: Cameron faces death by ‘shiring’ squad

Europe

Sep 16, 2011

5

If the Lib-Dems fail to stop the Tories dismantling human rights protractions, then its supporters might decide to abandon the party at the ballot box.

UK’s Human Rights Act looms as the great political divide

Europe

Feb 18, 2011

6

Looking hale and hearty from his country estate regime, WikiLeaks star-fleet commander Julian Assange yesterday appeared at London’s Frontline Club.

Rundle’s British Isles bites: Assange to the Frontline … Labour Lord’s it over Tories … Another Ireland crisis …

Europe

Jan 19, 2011

2

The coalition in the UK between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats struck <b>Richard Farmer</b> as mightily strange from the moment it was formed. It's like the Australian Democrats supporting the GST -- the party never recovered from that.

Coalition strains in the UK

Europe

Dec 22, 2010

Howard Flight, a former Tory MP, is in political trouble for saying what no doubt many of his Conservative colleagues believe – the problem with the poor is that they breed, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.

Encouraging the poor to breed

Europe

Nov 26, 2010

Down at Thirty Millbank beside the grey and misty Thames, they're still cleaning up the glass and metal, sprayed all around by last week's demonstration against tuition fees.

Rundle’s UK: student protests peaceful, or piss weak, depending on your politics

Europe

Nov 15, 2010

2

Retail sales figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning show we are far from being in boom times.

No boom in Australia as retail figures disappoint

Richard Farmer’s chunky bits

Aug 03, 2010

You want a big new tax? The RSPT is just mucking around. The Tories have gone large in their tax increase plans -- with plenty of help from their Lib-Dem partners

That’s not a Great Big New Tax — THIS is a Great Big New Tax

Companies

May 18, 2010

2

The first meeting of the UK's coalition cabinet looked about as dignified as one of those casual get-togethers at a Chinese restaurant where everyone brings extra guests, and you've got your elbow in ginger beef all evening.

Rundle’s UK: Con Lib-Dems divide up the spoils, dim-sum style

Europe

May 14, 2010

12

New British Prime Minister David Cameron is most definitely a slick character. <i>Crikey</i> backgrounds the Tory leader, from his beginnings at Oxford's infamous Bullingdon Club to the most powerful man in the country.

After the Brown-out, just who is David Cameron?

Europe

May 12, 2010

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