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Google Chief Addresses Conservatives
News Google chief executive Eric Schmidt brought some Internet glamour to the Conservative party on Tuesday when he gave a keynote address at their annual conference in Bournemouth. Schmidt told the audience of party activists and MPs that they had a...
[October 3, 2006, 16:30]
Conservatives Press For Open-source Push
News David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software. In a speech to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 3 April, the leader of the Conservative Party called for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:00]
Conservatives Defend Pentagon Surveillance Plan
News A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents of the plan said on Wednesday. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being...
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
Tories Attack Government Policy On Cybercrime
News The Conservatives have criticised the government's response to the growing threat from cybercrime, unveiling plans for a national e-crime unit and a dedicated e-crime minister if they win the next election.
[March 7, 2008, 9:04]
Tories Plan To Block Internet Snooping Bill
News According to shadow Home Office Minister Anne Widdecombe, the conservatives are considering withdrawing support for the Bill over the issue of proving the legal authorities with encryption keys. According to Anne Widdecombe's press officer "the...
[March 9, 2000, 9:01]
ID Card Bill Gets Tory Boost
News After months of opposition wrangling, the Conservatives have pledged their support to the government's ID card bill, which the party had previously described as "deeply flawed". Some senior Conservatives had voiced dissatisfaction about the plans...
[December 14, 2004, 13:55]
Election 2001: Political Parties Show Their IT Stripes
News Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have all outlined their policies on IT. Amid accusations of bandwagon jumping, the Conservatives promised to scrap the controversial IR35 tax on contractors.
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
The 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund: Overview And Comment
White Papers Like many other observers all along the political spectrum, conservatives regard it with mixed reactions-legal, moral and economic. On one hand, conservatives are apprehensive about ATSA's constitutionally-dubious, retroactive limitation on private...
[February 24, 2005, 5:04]
Election 2001: Labour Trails Web Site Poll
News The Conservatives took up to 15 seconds and the Liberal Democrats 29. The Conservatives are also employing new technology and have launched an email blitz in key marginal seats in the last week of the election.
[June 7, 2001, 16:28]
E-voting 'must Be Dropped'
News Heald said the Conservatives welcome the cancellation of the plan, and that they consider e-voting to be vulnerable to fraud. The Conservatives said the statement refers to voting by Internet, text message or telephone, and does not refer to voting...
[September 8, 2005, 17:05]
ID Cards Still Top Of Labour's Agenda
News Legislation to introduce the controversial biometric ID cards did not make it through parliament before the election was called, and Labour said this was the fault of the Conservatives. Only last week, the Conservatives blocked ID cards from...
[April 18, 2005, 9:25]
Tories Liable To Compensate ID Scheme Vendors
News The spokesperson added that "nothing has been created bespoke" to deal with the Conservatives' intentions, and that the figures involved in cancellation are commercially confidential. Only the deal to produce identity cards, due to be announced in...
[May 29, 2008, 8:48]
News Schmooze: MOM Wants You To Pay Microsoft
News The Tories have even indulged in a spot of domain name hijacking -- one of their cronies has registered www.newlabour.co.uk, which points to the Conservative Party's official site at conservatives.com, with a holding banner asking surfers to...
[May 11, 2001, 14:29]
News Schmooze: Labour Surges To Victory On Text Messages
News A landslide, that is, of email from the Conservatives. It's a landslide! In a futile attempt to stem Labour's massive lead in the polls ahead of Thursday's general election, the Tories apparently engaged in a bit of email marketing, as a way of...
[June 8, 2001, 17:05]
The Politics Of Open Source
Leader As the next election nears, we expect to see more detailed explanations of what the Conservatives would do and with whom, together with equivalent strategies from the other parties. The difference between PR and persuasive argument lies in the...
[March 8, 2007, 14:06]
E-voting 'must Be Dropped'
Talkback Yea and at the appripriate juncture the Conservatives will be voted in, in real speak NEVER! Typical conservative views, how boring, that's why they'll never get voted in. They didn't even give it a chance.
[September 8, 2005, 23:27]
Gordon Brown Dubbed 'analogue Chancellor'
News The Conservatives had suggested refining the scheme, including tighter definitions on the equipment which would qualify for tax relief in future, saving money for the Treasury, while still allowing the scheme to survive.
[May 8, 2006, 9:55]
ID Cards Bill Passes Second Commons Reading
Talkback Given the fact that this ID card system has been revealed as simply another way to directly target people for advertising, and that (obviously) some government ministers are as corrupt as the conservatives used to be (taking cash to sell ID card...
[June 29, 2005, 16:57]
Tory Resigns
Talkback I would like to think that this will be the beginning of a new approach to politics and that the Conservatives will reconsider their core values and move us away from this all seeing, all knowing, all controlling approach and save us from 'Big...
[June 13, 2008, 9:04]
Government To Force Handover Of Encryption Keys
Talkback I found this page where one can contact the conservative party, and think people here may want to make a comment.https://www.conservatives.com/tile.do? Personally I think we need to go bug the opposition about this if we are going todo anything about.
[May 23, 2006, 20:45]
