Global News: July 2009 Archives

ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values

A distillation of conservative policy values, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies, founded by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph.

"It is wrong that the majority of people in Britain are financially beholden to the State. This makes the State the master; the complicated tax and benefit system the chief instrument of its power.

"A paternalist government, based on the benevolence of a ruler who treats his subjects as dependent children, is the greatest conceivable despotism and destroys all freedom."

CentreRight: The Queen costs us each a mere 69p a year - and she wants all MPs to know it

Turns out that it's cheaper to be ruled by a monarch than a messiah.