The most influential people on the UK Right
Iain Dale has blogged on the 25 most influential people on the right in UK politics. It’s an interesting concept doing it by political alignment, so it isn’t so much about who is in Government, but about who has sway amongst their own side.
Of course all these power lists are subjective and more entertainment than serious. I did note with delight that Tony Blair is listed at No 10 on the Right’s list. He was more a right winger than left winger in reality.
The top ten are:
1 David Cameron MP, Leader of the Opposition
2 George Osborne MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
3 Lord Ashcroft, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
4 Lady Thatcher, Former Prime Minister
5 Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy, Conservative Party
6 William Hague MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary
7 David Davis MP, Shadow Home Secretary
8 Michael Spencer, Conservative Party Treasurer
9 Michael Gove MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
10 Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister
I can’t help noting that I’ve actually managed to meet five of the people in the top ten, thanks to my IDU forays. Three of them have only been meet and greets for a few minutes at functions, but two of them have been through spending a couple of weeks together at conferences.
I was invited over to the Tory Party conference this year, which has just finished, and would love to have made it. But far too busy. Next year will be worse with our election but may aim for 2009. Their conferences leave our ones for dead – amazing spectacles.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Isn’t Baroness Thatcher basically senile now? Pretty sad if that’s the best UK Conservatives can do. Still, she isn’t dead yet, so I guess they are still ahead of the old communist politburos !
October 8th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
She’s not dead, she’s just powered down. Her personal nuclear signature was giving her underground fortresses location away.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I have the champagne ready
October 8th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Can’t imagine there was any to be found in Blackpool after Flash Gordon started rumours of a snap election then lost his bottle at the best possible moment – for the Tories, that is.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
“I have the champagne ready”
Coming from a spineless Klark toady not fit to shine Thatcher’s shoes.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I note that # 9 (David Gove) is a staunch supporter of Direct Democracy – go to http://www.direct-democracy.co.uk
Steve Taylor,
Deputy Leader,
Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand
http://www.ddp.co.nz
October 8th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Pity you did not go to the conference David.
You might have picked up some tips on how National might cement its support, based on taxcuts, appealing to the party base once more and the party leader getting his act together and deliverign a good speech.
Hopefully, National can put the wobbles of recent weeks behind it, though the media are only targetting John Key now because he is Prime Ministerial material. This is why both Winnie and the Greens want to jump into bed with Key. They see Helen has finished.
The transformation of the UK political scene in the past week or so has been well covered over at http://www.nominister.blogspot.com with a final realisation of what finally did it for Gordon Brown- a visit from Dear Leader.
After they met in Downing Street last Monday, that was when it all started to turn to custard. Can we now get helen to visit Kevin Rudd in Australia?
Yes, you would have loved the Tory Conference. I went to Blackpool in 1991, a year after Thatcher was deposed, but she turned up, stole the show and I shook her hand.
Thatcher still has clout today, which is why Gordon Brown was happy to parade her in Downing Street, profess his appreciation of her as a ‘conviction politician’. The hate shown from some of the left towards Mrs Thatcher by some on this blog just shows how ignorant and juvenile many on the New Zealand left truly are.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
The Love shown from some of the right towards Mrs Thatcher by some on this blog just shows how ignorant and juvenile many on the New Zealand right truly are.
“This is why both Winnie and the Greens want to jump into bed with Key”
WTF
Thatcher still has clout today should read
Thatcher still has gout today the evil old bag
October 8th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Thatcher is not evil at all. She is just firm in what she believes. That will be something of a mystery to those used to our poll-driven politicians.
Thatcher was on the right (I mean correct) side of most arguments. Arthur Scargill, Argentina, Ken Livingstone and Brussels deserved and needed what they got.
Tony Blair was mostly loved until he went against the polls and into Iraq.
There is a message there somewhere…
October 8th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Robert Owen:
Do those bitter pills you’re taking come in gel caps?
October 8th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I was in the Uk during her reign of terror
I saw the effects first hand
October 8th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Me too Robert
So did i.
She saved Britain and indeed the world, witht he help of Ronald Reagan.
And that is why Tony Blair didn’t change her economic settlement.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
“I saw the effects first hand”
You’re a blind ideologue. (and an ignorant troll) You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face, unless perhaps it was waving a communist flag.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Me too Robert
So did i.
She saved Britain and indeed the world, with he help of Ronald Reagan.
And that is why Tony Blair didn’t change her economic settlement.
Well I guess we have differing opinions then so not much point in further comment
I and many of my filthy communist friends will party when the old cow dies
and you your mates and General Pinachet will mourn
C est la vie
October 8th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
I’ll take that as a no.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Craig yes those years had a profound effect on me
I was very bitter and twisted for years and I thought it was gone
Its not just me though there will be many parties when she goes
Fuck she was awful
October 9th, 2007 at 12:22 am
“I did note with delight that Tony Blair is listed at No 10 on the Right’s list.”
You’re welcome to him. I doubt that history will treat the smarmy slime ball particularly well.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:01 am
When Lady Thatcher dies, I suspect tens of millions of free Eastern Europeans will mourn her most of all.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Tony Blair … yesterdays news, todays fish and chip paper.
Might there be a lesson there for ‘Dear Leader’ … after a less than successful trip to Downing Street where she found herself bundled out into the rain; turning up at Cardiff to see the ABs loose sans her trip on the Black Boat … the ‘dead Elephant’ smell abounds.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
“suspect tens of millions of free Eastern Europeans will mourn her most of all.”
Probably true, those of us who saw the carnage she inflicted on the UK will be crying.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
“those of us who saw the carnage”
What carnage?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
The carnage she left in places like Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, London. The smashed mining communites, the wercked lives.
Oh sorry ratbleater, I actually answered you as if you were interested and not about to go to your standard “I hate commies” rant.
Sorry for the error.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Funnily enough if Thatcher didn’t fix the mess up in Liverpool, Glasgow, London etc they would be screwed now and not experiencing the excellent growth and wealth they are currently experiencing.
What melodrama Sonic and Robert. Even now much of the UK grudgingly accept that Thatcher made the country great again. Glorifying even the idea of her death is sick and twisted and only shows the types of people you both are.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
“Oh sorry ratbleater, I actually answered you as if you were interested”
i was interested. Interested to see if you could justify the word “carnage”. You can’t of course. You can’t even tell me what it is she did that you don’t approve of. You can never answer anything really, except with the same kind of vague and empty rubbish. As for the views you have expressed on Thatcher, not anything but a manifestation of the same old ignorance and irrational hate that underpins so much of the rhetoric of the left. God you socialists are such inhumane thuggish repugnant people.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:37 am
“Glorifying even the idea of her death”
Not me mate, I never glory in the idea of anyones’s death.
Like the “things are better now so Thatcher must have been good” line. Seen how lovely Germany is now, and people slag of Hitler, go figure?
Ratbleater
“I actually answered you as if you were interested and not about to go to your standard “I hate commies rant”
And how right I was.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Sonic, it seems that you too have a distinctly different view of things in the UK than everybody else. It might be all the fresh air damaging your braincells.
Putting Hitler in the same sentence as Thatcher is sad. Really sad. You don’t see politicians saying we shouldn’t go back to Thatchers days, in contrast, Gordon Brown said he modelled himself on Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair reversed hardly any of her reforms…..