Archive for Month: December 2020

The Prime Minister has achieved the impossible Like many a tragic politico, I have spent much of the bank holiday weekend trying to absorb the emerging details of the Anglo-European trade deal, signed just hours after my previous blog, predicting that a deal would not be agreed. That’ll teach me! I jest somewhat. I did…

As time runs out for an Anglo-European trade deal, it is important to recognise that things have changed since the 1970s. Today, Britain is not the ‘Sick Man’ of Europe. The EU is! I avoid commenting too much on national politics on this blog but I was asked about the likelihood of a trade deal…

Council set to decommission 9 local play areas in Billericay Basildon Council has today (Wednesday 16th December) launched a public consultation on a ten-year programme around the future provision of play across the borough. While the strategy being proposed by the current Labour-led Administration includes investment in some of our larger play facilities – including…

Billericay remembers the Mayflower, 400 years on At yesterday’s full meeting of Basildon Council, I was proud to move the following motion. “To be moved by Councillor Schrader – The Council notes that this year marks 400 years since one of the most significant sea journeys in human history – the voyage of the Mayflower…

The title of this blog comes from a quip made by Sir Iain Duncan Smith – a prominent backbench critic of the current Covid strategy – and I could not resist using it, as I think it sums up how a lot of us feel. I am as wearied by this pandemic as anybody. A…