John Strafford

Interested in democracy, Conservative Party and UK history. Author of Battle for Monte Natale. The Italian campaign in World War 2 and Our Fight for Democracy.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Keir Starmer is delusional. He’s not changing Britain for the better. He’s doing the exact opposite. He’s punished pensioners, the disabled, farmers, pub owners, small businesses & ignored the concerns facing millions of people. The most unpopular Prime Minister in living memory.

[NPanju @n_panju]

Shocking unacceptable!

[G @GB_Gaz_]

@kevinhollinrake @Jebadoo2 https://t.co/hE6QDzP53C

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Hey, Zia, you’re lying…..again

This is what she actually said:

“I’m someone who believes every life matters.

I don’t want to hear about black lives matter’

I don’t want to hear about white lives matter’

I want to hear about how we’re looking after everybody”

Lying by omission is still lying.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025
Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson:
‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’
Wow! Just wow!!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Release the body camera videos

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Enough is enough.

Conservatives will vote to FORCE Labour to publish the Defence Investment Plan.

It’s insane that with wars in Ukraine and Iran, Labour STILL haven’t published the plan promised a year ago. Conservatives will put our national security first.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Streeting and Burnham? They are promoting the same dreary socialist agenda that brought this country to its knees in the 1970s.

[Cllr Simon Fawthrop @SimonFawthrop_1]

@DCBMEP John Strafford is usually right on party democracy.

[David Dougan @dougan_dav24341]

@DCBMEP David Cameron didn’t like the number of Brexiteers being selected and took Lib Dem’s instead. The party is full of them.

[as @sksanglia]

@DCBMEP We had Liz Truss forced on us, we did not want her, @CCHQLondon thought we were the turnip Taliban. We got it write & they got it wrong. @WilliamJHague has got a lot to answer for, one of the most useless leader.

[Lady J 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇦 @LadyJLondon]

@DCBMEP @DCBMEP Maybe look at Reform. They’ve had members and local chairmen quit as Nigel and the team didn’t allow locals to pick a local candidate. Reform is still a LTD COMPANY NOT A PARTY! 🤯 https://t.co/rG8qUFZQC3

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

@DCBMEP The same "party stalwart" John Strafford believes members should have no say in electing the party leader.

Referring to him doesn't serve your argument well, I'm afraid.

[David C Bannerman @DCBMEP]

Party stalwart John Strafford on candidate selection: Julian Ellacott continues with the disastrous selection process we have had for the last 25 years whereby a small group of people unelected, unaccountable to the ordinary members of the Party determine who can be a Conservative parliamentary Candidate.

Go back to pre 1998 when the ordinary Party members decided who they wanted as their MP. The results then were high quality.

Once again the ordinary members are being treated with contempt and you wonder why membership is collapsing.! Soon the Conservative Party will cease to exist as a membership organisation and inevitably the parliamentary party will go into decline?

https://t.co/ogr8aIOlsw

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Under Blair’s New Labour government the state built fewer houses in total than the Thatcher administration built PER YEAR.

I explain the difference between Blair’s essay and reality on the @spikedonline podcast (link below).

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

The government is so busy trying to replace gas fired power with windfarms, it has forgotten we will need lots more electricity to power their net zero world and to allow growth. Bad news they cannot offer enough electricity to expand Heathrow and all the datacentres we need.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Since the election, energy bills have risen by nearly £300.

But instead of using our own oil and gas to bring down bills, the Government wants to wreck our homegrown energy industry.

It'll mean higher bills, more factories closing, and more jobs lost - but we can stop them 👇

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Kemi Badenoch is spot on.

Ed Miliband and this incompetent Labour government are killing the oil and gas industry and sending unemployment soaring.

This can’t continue. We need to drill, cut taxes on working people and get Britain working again.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

No, it won’t cut it. He needs to address why when 3 members of the SNP finance and audit committee resigned because Murrell wouldn’t show them the books the reaction of the leadership & their lackeys was to bully the person who made the announcement rather than to investigate