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We are not going to abolish the Pension Credit, but it will gradually be replaced by the higher state pension.We save money on means-tested benefits that pensioners don’t like in order to put more money into the basic state pension, which they do. And we will get more money into pensions by abolishing the New Deal, which hasn’t worked.Longer, healthier lives are great news. When we’re told we must look at them as a threat, how badly are we going wrong?. Whatever about the bunting they have draped around their building, the foundations of the Tory party are still woefully uncertain.

In these times of prudence, stability and soaring house prices you just can not get the builders in. He was going to address the most fundamental question for the Tories; he was going to make The Moral Case for Lower Taxes At last, the fightback was to begin. How we’ve been bullied by the Prime Minister’s superior morality. No longer would we have to sheepishly agree with propositions like, “We are stronger when we act together than when we act alone,” and “We will not walk by on the other side.” Now we were going to get the good stuff.Oliver Letwin is the party’s other intellectual. He is an educated banker, a broad thinker, a decent fellow, an excellent companion and a clever parliamentarian with more charm than is strictly necessary. We have got to get rid of him somehow, he’s completely useless.There is a moral case for lower taxation but Mr Letwin failed utterly to make it. He made the case against waste (as Gordon Brown has), he made the case against bureaucracy (as Gordon Brown has), he made the case for a more limited government involvement in the delivery of public services (as Tony Blair has), but he failed entirely to make the moral case for lower taxes.

So is he just 2 per cent more moral than Labour then? Is that what it means to be Conservative?David Davis made the law and order speech to conference. He looked as cheerful as any man could in those circumstances. He was going to tear up the targets and regulations and set the police free to do their job.To outbid David Blunkett is not impossible but it makes a very specific electoral appeal. He was like that Biblical king inheriting the throne after a particularly brutal reign: “My father chastised you with whips,” he said. “I shall chastise you with scorpions.” Ooh! Scorpions! Can we kneel? And wear tighter loincloths?simoncarr75 hotmail
More from Simon Carr. He could be very stressed and his reactions to stress could be sad. He was unwilling to admit that he had ever been wrong; though pleased to explain how the critic had come to misunderstand him This might be taken as expressive of a certain narrowness Rather was it a foible Actually he had a generous mind This can be seen in two ways, among others He was always ready to help fellow scholars.