The Wardman Wire

Chris is a Conservative activist and writes his own blog at the Blue Idea. He formally wrote under the pseudonym “The ThunderDragon” (because it sounded pretty cool in June 2006, when he started blogging), but has since changed to writing under his own name. Find out more here.

We may not know the result of the general election for up to 24 hours after the polls have closed because at least 64 seats will not be counting votes until the Friday – and another 161 are considering following suit. Included in this shameful group is my own constituency, Watford.
The Electoral Commission is trying [...]

ANDREW MARR:
Will you accept that the country’s still looking pretty warily at the Conservative Party; they haven’t finally agreed that they want you as the next government?
ERIC PICKLES:
Yes, I absolutely agree with that. I don’t think the deal is done. I think it’s our election to lose, so I think we have to make a [...]

In a speech, Speaker John Bercow has claimed that:

I cannot think of a single year in the recent history of Parliament when more damage has been done to it than this year, with the possible exception of when Nazi bombs fell on the chamber in 1941.

The destruction of Parliament by Nazi bombs in 1941 caused [...]

The people of Switzerland have voted, democratically, to ban the building of minarets. More than 57% of voters and 22 of the 26 Swiss cantons voted in favour of the ban, in defiance of the government (although in support of the largest party in parliament) as “a vote against minarets as symbols of Islamic power.”
Democratically, [...]