While Conservative grassroots, along with a number of cabinet ministers, support the move, chair of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP Neil Carmichael has also voice opposition to lifting the ban.
On the other hand
Conservative Home and, yes, Next Left, have a particular axes to grind - and
while they may use their sites in different ways, they do have a «perspective» and often an «agenda» which may not reflect the agenda that others, even in the parties that they are likely to be sympathetic to would necessarily agree with... That
Conservative Home is keen to sell itself to the MSM as the voice of the
grassroots is itself interesting - as I go round assoications I am not certain that they truly reflect the diversity of opinion that exists in that
grassroots and I can not tell you the number of times I am told, «Yes, I read
Conservative Home, but I would never contribute...»
The majority of Ukip politicians, including Farage support the cross-party group «
Grassroots Out» (GO)
while Carswell, who defected from the
Conservatives in 2014, backs the Vote Leave group.
Hanging out with Paladino —
while likely a popular move with the GOP and
conservative grassroots — no doubt gives the governor and his allies more fodder with which to attack Cuomo's GOP opponent.