Archive for Month: July 2013

Britain has held its nerve, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has stuck to his Plan A, and the UK economy is on the mend as a result! Thanks to George Osborne’s decision to ignore the advice of Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and change course, the UK economy is now growing again. There is still a…

I attended a meeting of Governors and Non-executive Directors at Basildon Hospital yesterday and I suppose it’s only right, in my capacity as a public governor for the hospital, to comment on Sir Bruce Keogh’s report, which was published yesterday. I think it’s vitally important, admid all the media hysterics, to point out that the…

I am proud to support a Government that is tackling the something-for-nothing benefits culture we inherited from Labour. Capping benefits so that out-of-work households cannot claim more in benefits than an average working family earns through hard graft is a basic matter of fairness. Conservatives believe though that more can and must be done to…

After nearly a decade and more than £1m of taxpayers’ money has been spent, fighting against the European Court of Human Rights and our own often self-defeating and rather crackpot legal system, Theresa May has finally achieved what FIVE Labour Home Secretaries failed to do! Omar Mahmoud Othman (also known as ‘Abu Qatada’) – the…

A letter to Cllr Andrew Schrader from the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP: Dear Andrew, I am writing to congratulate you on your recent success in the Basildon Council by-election. I was delighted by your success and that you will be representing Billericay East ward for us. This is a great personal…

I am proud that the Conservative Party – through the Private Member’s Bill of James Wharton MP, which is receiving its Second Reading in the House of Commons today – will, finally, give the British people the opportunity to have their say over our future relationship with the European Union by setting out in statute…

My inaugural post on this new website must be to reiterate a massive thank-you to everyone who helped me win the Billericay East bye-election – first and foremost my agent, Cllr Stuart Sullivan. Also my family for their constant support, especially my beautiful fiancée, Nicole, for her constant encouragement. I now look forward to getting…