Category: European Union
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Review of 2019
29th December 2019The year 2019 is coming to a close with an almost mirror image of the end of 2018. In 2018, I entered the year as an Opposition backbencher on Basildon Council, with a Labour-led alliance in power, only for the Conservative Group to regain administration in May and the new Leader of the Council, Cllr…
- 'Basildon Borough Alliance' (Labour-led coalition)
- Advice Store, The
- BAGGOTT, Cllr Andrew (Con, Burstead & fmr Leader of Basildon Council)
- BARON, John, MP (Con, Basildon & Billericay)
- Basildon & Billericay (constituency)
- Basildon & Billericay Conservative Assoc
- Basildon Borough Council
- Basildon Business Group
- Billericay (town)
- Billericay Community Cinema (BillericayCine)
- Billericay East (ward)
- Billericay High Street
- Billericay Swimming Pool
- Brexit
- CALLAGHAN, Cllr Gavin (Lab, Pitsea NW & Leader of Basildon Council)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Economic Development & Growth Cttee. (now disbanded)
- Essex Chambers of Commerce
- Essex County Council
- Essex Police
- European Union
- FRANCOIS, Rt Hon Mark, MP (Con, Rayleigh & Wickford)
- General Election
- Gypsies & Trevellers
- Infrastructure & Inclusive Growth Committee (now disbanded)
- Innovation Warehouse
- JAVID, Rt Hon Sajid, MP (Con, Bromsgrove)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- Labour Party
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- METCALFE, Stephen, MP (Con, South Basildon & East Thurrock)
- National Health Service
- Office of Budget Responsibility
- Palm oil
- Parliament, Houses of
- PATEL, Rt Hon Priti, MP (Con, Witham)
- Pride Teams (Basildon Council)
- SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership)
- Uncategorised
- Unemployment
- Wat Tyler County Park (Pitsea)
- Withdrawal Agreement
- Zombie Parliament (2017-19)
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Why you should vote Conservative in the General Election
24th November 2019The most important General Election for a generation The Stakes could hardly be higher… We are having a General Election. I am assuming this has not escaped anyone’s attention. This is not an election the Conservative Party wanted. We wanted to deliver Brexit, fulfil the mandate of the British people expressed in the 2016…
- Anti-Semitism
- Article 50 (Brexit)
- BARON, John, MP (Con, Basildon & Billericay)
- Basildon & Billericay (constituency)
- Benn Act (2019) (aka Surrender Act)
- Brexit
- British National Party
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- European Union
- France
- General Election
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- Labour Party
- Liberal Democrats
- Long Parliament (1640-53)
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- Momentum (Corbynistas)
- National Health Service
- Northern Ireland
- Parliament, Houses of
- Referendum
- STURGEON, Rt Hon Nicola, MSP (SNP First Minister of Scotland)
- Uncategorised
- Unemployment
- Withdrawal Agreement
- Zombie Parliament (2017-19)
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Why I’m Backing Boris
23rd June 2019Since the announced resignation of the Prime Minister, Theresa May, I have been asked many times and by many people – though few as doggedly as Johnny Jenkins at Gateway FM – whom I would be supporting in a Conservative leadership election. I have resisted, up until now, all attempts to coax an answer from…
- 1922 Committee
- Brexit
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- DAVIS, Rt Hon David, MP (Con, Haltemprice & Howden)
- European Union
- Gateway FM
- HAGUE of RICHMOND, William, Lord (Tory peer)
- JENKINS, Johnny (Gateway FM)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- Labour Party
- LEADSOM, Rt Hon Andrea, MP (Con, South Northamptonshire)
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- TRUMP, Donald (fmr US President)
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Palm Oil
5th April 2019At the Full Council meeting in December last year, Cllr Kerry Smith (Ind, Nethermayne) moved a motion with cross-party support seeking to promote a borough-wide ban on products containing palm oil. Never one to miss a passing bandwagon, Councillor Smith was quick to seize on the publicity surrounding the Christmas advert for Iceland, which sought…
- Basildon Borough Council
- CANHAM, Gary (fmr. Tory cllr for Pitsea NW)
- Deforestation
- European Union
- Iceland (company)
- Indonesia
- Kellogg's
- Malaysia
- Orangutans
- Palm oil
- PepsiCo
- Policy Oversight & Strategy Committee
- RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- THOMPSON, Dame Emma, DBE
- Uncategorised
- Unilever
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Thanks, Dave!
18th July 2016I must begin this blog with my customary apology for the length of time it has taken to write it. A number of people have complained that I have not yet written up the Full Council meeting of 7th July, well over a week ago, including no less a figure than Cllr David Harrison (WI,…
- BLAIR, Rt Hon Tony (fmr. Labour PM)
- BROWN, Rt Hon Gordon (fmr. Labour PM)
- Buckingham Palace
- CAMERON, Elwen
- CAMERON, Florence
- CAMERON, Nancy
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- CAMERON, Samantha
- CLARKE of NOTTINGHAM, Kenneth, Lord, CH PC QC (Tory peer)
- Corporation Tax
- DAVIS, Rt Hon David, MP (Con, Haltemprice & Howden)
- Downing Street
- DUNCAN SMITH, Rt Hon Sir Iain, MP (Con, Chingford & Woodford Green)
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Europe
- European Exchange Rate Mechanism
- European Union
- G8
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- HARRISON, Cllr David (WInd, Wickford Park)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- Keynesianism
- Labour Party
- LEADSOM, Rt Hon Andrea, MP (Con, South Northamptonshire)
- Liberal Democrats
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- MAY, Sir Philip
- National Insurance
- One Nation Conservatism
- PMQs
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Why I'm backing Leadsom for PM
3rd July 2016I used my last blog to explain why I had taken the decision to vote Leave in the EU referendum on 23rd June and I just want to start this one by saying how delighted I was by the result. I always tend to treat voting in a rather theatrical manner but for this one…
- 1922 Committee
- BARLEY, Emily (Chair, Conservatives for Liberty)
- BARON, John, MP (Con, Basildon & Billericay)
- Basildon, Borough of
- BLUNKETT, David, Lord, PC (Labour peer)
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- Conservatives for Liberty
- CRABB, Rt Hon Stephen, MP (Con, Preseli Pembrokeshire)
- Data Retention Investigatory Powers Act (2014)
- European Arrest Warrant
- European Union
- FOX, Rt Hon Dr Liam, MP (Tory MP for North Somerset)
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- LEADSOM, Rt Hon Andrea, MP (Con, South Northamptonshire)
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- Referendum
- WERRITTY, Adam
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Why I shall vote to Leave the EU
22nd June 2016I have thought long and hard about the momentous decision that faces our nation on Thursday. Not particularly about how I am going to vote, for I have known that with a fair degree of certainty for well over a decade. Rather, I have agonised over whether or not I wanted to blog on the…