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Friday 12th December 2008Britain's leading conservative blog Today's top ConservativeHome features ToryDiary: Another bad day for the EU International: German CDU joins attack on Gordon Brown's unfunded fiscal stimulus (as Angela Merkel becomes 'Frau Nein') Local government: Mark Wallace: Councils each spend £1m pa on public relations Cllr Jill Tuck responds to the media firestorm over her council's use of surveillance powers to investigate paper boys Council byelection results LibDem North Yorkshire County Councillor joins Tories Parliament: Theresa May calls for a debate on the economy Alan Duncan calls for a delay in VAT payments Seats and candidates: Andy Stranack adopted to take on Harriet Harman Antonia Cox on Platform: What the aircraft carrier delays tell us about Labour’s defence failures WATCH: Ireland is asked to vote again on Lisbon but an unpopular government in Dublin will struggle to secure a 'yes' Today's newslinks David Cameron gives a wide-ranging interview on Woolsworths, economic strategy and his shadow team - Telegraph    > WATCH HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE INTERVIEW Telegraph praises Tory economic strategy "Mr Osborne, in his response to the pre-Budget report last month, and David Cameron, in his LSE speech this week, have shown that they have now found the language to expose the enormous risk in the Government's recovery strategy. These rushed and panicky measures, built on an ever-growing mountain of debt, threaten to make the recession deeper and longer." - Telegraph leader US car bail-out fails in Senate - BBC Peter Luff MP warns of 'energy crunch' "The UK now faces the very real risk of an 'energy crunch' in the coming years, as vital investments are delayed as a result of the recession. We have concluded that the Government's faith in the market to deliver new gas storage, generating capacity and other infrastructure is misplaced." - Peter Luff quoted by Sky Cheryl Gillan MP tops 2008 private members' bill ballot - ePolitix Gordon Brown delays consent for Civil Service handover talks - Times "The plan by David Cameron, the Conservative leader, to prepare his party for government faced a setback on Thursday when it emerged that Gordon Brown was holding up moves by the shadow cabinet to meet top mandarins from next month. The Tories claimed that it breached a written pledge made more than two years ago by Tony Blair, when prime minister, to Mr Cameron that such meetings could begin well ahead of the last possible date for an election." - FT Jacqui Smith warns of a mass influx of Zimbabweans to the UK amid cholera outbreak - BBC Miliband rejects calls for EU troops to avert humanitarian catastrophe in Congo - Guardian More comment on the Cameron family Christmas card "In today's beauty contest of political life, it is not enough just to be clever and good. You must be a clever, good, handsome, virile, caring type of Dad-man with ostrich egg calves and the ability to look pious yet cosy on the front of a Christmas card.  So far, the latter is something that only the baby Jesus has managed, but David Cameron ain't giving up yet. In contrast, Gordon Brown is away in a manger with the fairies. In this slick and shallow world, he hasn't got a prayer." - Jan Moir in The Daily Mail > Video: The Times' Ben Macintyre compares the family Christmas cards of David Cameron and Tony Blair Our main sites Homepage. ToryDiary. Seats and candidates. Local government. Parliament. Platform. CentreRight. International. PlayPolitical videos.

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