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Soundbytes (Tuesday, 29th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1856: The Victoria Cross is instituted by Queen Victoria. The world’s largest collection of VCs is now owned by Lord Ashcroft.

Daily Reaganite

  • “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Every Monday Matters: Week Four – Apply for CPAC

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CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) is the biggest annual gathering of conservatives in the United States. Some 10,000 conservatives from throughout America – and some of us from overseas – get together over three days in Washington DC each winter. This year CPAC takes place from Thursday, 14 March to Saturday, 16 March at the Gaylord National Hotel, just outside of Washington DC.

In recent years since I first attended CPAC in 2001, the conference has been addressed by President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Charlton Heston, Benjamin Netanyahu, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Julia Timoshenko, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and many, many more conservative heroes. I was delighted to see David Trimble on the same platform as Netanyahu, Jesse Helms, Charlton Heston, Chief Buthelezi and Dick Cheney in 2001. He confirmed what is now well known – he was and is a proud conservative. Continue reading →

Soundbytes (Monday, 28th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1547: Henry VIII dies.

Daily Reaganite

  • “Facts are stubborn things”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “It’s a funny old world”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Soundbytes (Sunday, 27th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1981: Rupert Murdoch takes over The Times.

Daily Reaganite

  • “When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

YBF Parliamentary Rally 2013: Confirmed Speakers

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YBF Small Dolphin LogoYBF is pleased to announce that the 2013 YBF Parliamentary Rally will be held in Committee Room 10 of the House of Commons from 1pm to 6pm on Wednesday, 6 March 2013.

Tickets are free of charge and may be reserved online here. This is a ticket only event, held under the Chatham House Rule, and the right of admission is expressly reserved. 

Details of confirmed speakers will be released over the course of the coming weeks but the list already includes:

  • Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Work & Pensions Secretary;
  • Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Local Government & Communities Secretary;
  • Rt Hon David Jones MP, Welsh Secretary;
  • Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, Former Defence Secretary;
  • Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP, Former Social Security Secretary;
  • Graham Brady MP, Chairman of the 1922 Committee;
  • Sir Gerald Howarth MP, Former Defence Minister;
  • Sajid Javid MP, Treasury Minister;
  • Andrew Rosindell MP, Romford;
  • Douglas Carswell MP, Clacton;
  • Conor Burns MP, Bournemouth West;
  • Andrea Leadsom MP, South Northamptonshire;
  • Dominic Raab MP, Esher & Walton;
  • Steve Baker MP, Wycombe;
  • Robert Halfon MP, Harlow;
  • Lord Flight;
  • Paul Staines, Guido Fawkes;
  • Iain Dale, Publisher & Broadcaster;
  • Matthew Elliott, TaxPayers’ Alliance;
  • Eamonn Butler, Adam Smith Institute;
  • Ruth Porter, Institute of Economic Affairs;
  • Emma Carr, Big Brother Watch;
  • Ryan Bourne, Centre for Policy Studies

and no doubt more to follow…

Soundbytes (Saturday, 26th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1998: US President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, saying “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”. Actually, he did.

Daily Reaganite

  • “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Soundbytes (Friday, 25th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1759: Robert Burns is born.

Daily Reaganite

  • “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Soundbytes (Thursday, 24th January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1965: Winston Churchill died.

Daily Reaganite

  • “Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Soundbytes (Wednesday, 23rd January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1924: The first Labour government was formed, under Ramsay MacDonald. Like all others, unemployment was higher when it left office than when it arrived…

Daily Reaganite

  • “But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.

Soundbytes (Tuesday, 22nd January 2013)

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Soundbytes: Today’s top stories and opinion

On this day…

  • 1771: The Falkand Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain. That’s right, Argentina. Before you even existed!

Daily Reaganite

  • “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man”.

Daily Thatcherite

  • “Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd”.

If you would like to learn more about YBF and its events, conferences, workshops, research or campaigns then please contact YBF’s Chief Executive, Donal Blaney, at donal@ybf.org.uk.