'Tory madrasa' preaches radical message to would-be MPs

[Billyboy]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ons-foundation

Tory parliamentary candidates have undergone training by a rightwing group whose leadership has described the NHS as "the biggest waste of money in the UK", claimed global warming is "a scam" and suggested that the waterboarding of prisoners can be justified.

At least 11 prospective Tory candidates, an estimated seven of whom have a reasonable chance of winning their seats, have been delegates or speakers at training conferences run by the Young Britons' Foundation, which claims to have trained 2,500 Conservative party activists.

The YBF chief executive, Donal Blaney, who runs the courses on media training and policy, has called for environmental protesters who trespass to be "shot down" by the police and that Britain should have a US-style liberal firearms policy. In an article on his own website, entitled Scrap the NHS, not just targets, he wrote: "Would it not now be better to say that the NHS – in its current incarnation – is finished?"

[Gav]

Absolute nonsense.

[Billyboy]

so why did he make his blog, which he apparently posted all this on, private after being questioned? if it's untrue he should have just left it open and everyone and everyone would see the Guardian's making it up

considering the YBFs promotion of American conservatives these views are hardly out of character, the YBF's president has also spoken out against the NHS in America