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Tony Blair recently told an audience of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp executives that political 'cross-dressing is rampant'. While Tranny Tony  yearns to swap political clothes and put on Thatcher's blue suit,  Conservative Party chairman Francis Maude is in charge of the Tory dressing up box and the driving force behind David Cameron's costume change.
 
  
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Maude's career shows the links between the old Tory reaction and the  new Conservative confection. Maude hands out the new touchy feely Tory costumes now but he was an old-fashioned minister back in the days when the Conservatives were in government.
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Thatcher gave him a junior foreign office post, where his
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Vietnamese 'boat people' from Hong Kong. In 1989, he got riot police to force the Vietnamese refugees back to the 'red' country they had fled, while the Thatcher government continued to shout about 'freedom' and proclaim its  opposition to totalitarian communism.
 
  
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As a Treasury minister in John Major's government, Maude was a top privatiser. Major says that in 1991 Maude ran 'a series of head-to-head meetings, or bilaterals, with departmental ministers in which he would challenge them on their plans for privatisation, competition and contracting out'. The electorate kicked Maude out of parliament in 1992, so he took a job as head of privatisation at Morgan Stanley bank, which profited from these same policies.  
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Maude was re-elected in 1997 and rebranded himself  'moderniser'. In  2003 he signed the letter that brought an end to Iain Duncan Smith's leadership of the party. While Duncan Smith was too Neanderthal for Maude, he was happy to be party chairman when the equally right wing  but less stupid Michael Howard led the Tories.
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Maude also launched a think tank, called C-Change, to promote Tory 'modernisation'. It is the sister organisation of Policy Exchange, David Cameron's favourite think-tank, which Maude set up with Archie Norman in 2002.
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C-Change shows how the Conservative milieu has changed. Dougie Smith, one of the leading lights of Maude's think tank also organised 'fever parties', upmarket orgies for the adventurous yuppie. The revelation caused some embarrassment, but not much: these new generation Tory swingers showed that the Tories have moved on, morally - although not that much.
 
  
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While Maude stood by sex-party Smith, he recently assured local Tory associations that he would not impose 'mincing metrosexual' candidates on 'gritty northern' seats.
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Maude has given up some bigotries, but he has not moved on economically. Rather than moving to the left, he hopes to benefit from Labour's move to the right. Maude praised Blair's politics, saying, 'One of the great achievements of New Labour is to take class out of politics.'
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Maude's strategy is to give his party a makeover to remove its
 
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obviously reactionary twitches. Take out the obvious prejudice but leave the basic politics intact. Maude believes Labour's business-friendly approach means the Conservatives cannot be challenged for championing the rich and powerful.
 
  
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parliament, Maude admitted that the public thought Tory plans for privatisation were 'aimed at enriching sinister business interests'. Because the public looked at 'commercial providers' in the NHS with suspicion, the plan to hand over the welfare state to big business 'is unlikely to be achieved by one party working alone'.
 
  
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However, Maude was pleased to admit that Labour MPs 'such as Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers . are willing to argue publicly' for privatisation. While the old Tories, like Iain Duncan Smith, reacted to Labour's shift rightwards by trying to find even more reactionary policies to distinguish themselves, the modernisers simply welcome Blairism and hope to take over the job when Blair goes.
 
  
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Maude certainly puts business first. Until earlier this year he was chairman of a PR Firm, called Incepta. Maude was not worried that one of its subsidiaries, Citigate, donated thousands of pounds to the Labour Party: Citigate represented privatisers like Group 4, so Maude's firm needed to pay cash to the governing party to represent its clients.  
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Maude has helped run Cameron's modernising campaign, like the Tory leader's recent speech claiming he would put 'commercial responsibility before profits', and castigating sweety makers for adding to Britain's obesity crisis. While Cameron takes on the chocolate oranges, Frances Maude is chairman of the Mission Marketing Group. Maude's new company is an ad agency whose clients include Walkers Crisps and Virgin Cola.
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This page provides an overview of the search feature which can be used to find information (or an article) in the Powerbase site.


How to do a search

The search box is found on the left hand side of a page. Put the keyword for your search in the box. You now have two options:

1. Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article if it exists under the same title as the one you have entered. If the title does not yet exist, it will ask if you want to create this page (make sure to familiarise yourself with How to start a page and Powerbase naming conventions before creating a new page).

You will also see a list of matches from your keyword.


2. Search - will return a list of articles.


Effective searching

Here are few good tips and hints for using the Powerbase search feature effectively:


Avoid short and common words

If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "one", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which",

"such", "every", "about") it may give a large number of non-relevant results. The system cannot search for numbers.


Words with special characters

In a search for a word with a diaeresis, such as Sint Odiliënberg, it depends whether this ë is stored as one character or as "&euml;". In the first case one can simply search for Odilienberg (or Odiliënberg); in the second case it can only be found by searching for Odili, euml and/or nberg.


Words in single quotes

If a word appears in an article with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable, it is better to use double quotes in articles for which this problem does not arise.


An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, therefore the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with 's is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.


If you cannot find an appropriate page on Powerbase

If there is no appropriate page on Powerbase, consider creating a page. Or consider adding what you were looking for to the Requested articles page.

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