Tag: Conservative Party
A Resilient Nation – Analysis Part 2
1. Britain’s Place in the World Reaffirming that the United Kingdom is an open, outward facing nation of considerable influence this sections covers the issue of how we might perceive our global role. After reading the section it is hard to see what is different from any other political party and it does not actually [...]
A Resilient Nation – Analysis Part 1
Released at the same time as David Cameron’ speech at Chatham House is the Conservative parties approach to national security and resilience. Headlines include Setting up a proper National Security Council to ensure that the Government’s preparations for and response to threats and hazards are co-ordinated. Creating a new Permanent Military Command for Homeland Defence [...]
How Britain Can Best Address the Threats of the 21st Century
This is a transcript from today’s speech by David Cameron at Chatham House during which he outlined the Conservative Party strategy for the future security of the UK. We will have a look in more depth in a later post but for now, and in the interest of accuracy and fairness it is presented below [...]
Solid Tory Policy
We have been waiting for something solid to come from the Conservatives in the defence realm. So far they have delivered a half baked ill thought through collection of announcements mostly about ‘slashing civil servant numbers’ With General Sir Richard Dannatt on the team it is hoped that a number of solid policies would start [...]
A Week in Politics
There have been a number of defence related issues arising out of this week’s Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Afghanistan War Cabinet David Cameron told The Sun ‘Our military is at war in Afghanistan, but quite frankly, Whitehall isn’t’ Going on to say he would form a ‘War Cabinet’ of senior ministers, military personnel and [...]
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