Category: JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip – Prime Minister)
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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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Conservative Leadership 2019
18th June 2019On Saturday, I attended a meeting of the National Conservative Convention in my capacity as Chairman of Basildon & Billericay Conservative Association and sat in on a hustings for the upcoming Conservative leadership election, attended by all six of the remaining candidates and I thought I would share my recollections and thoughts about the occasion.…
- Basildon & Billericay (constituency)
- BRADY, Sir Graham, MP (Con, Altrincham & Sale West and Chair, 1922 Cttee)
- Brexit
- CAMERON, Rt Hon David (fmr. Tory PM)
- CHURCHILL, Rt Hon Sir Winston, KG &c (late 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)
- GOVE, Rt Hon Michael, MP (Con, Surrey Heath)
- HAGUE of RICHMOND, William, Lord (Tory peer)
- HARRY (Henry), HRH The Duke of Sussex, KCVO
- HESELTINE, Michael, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- HUNT, Admiral Sir Nicholas, GCB LVO DL
- HUNT, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Con, South West Surrey)
- JAVID, Rt Hon Sajid, MP (Con, Bromsgrove)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- JOHNSON, Stanley (fmr Tory MEP)
- Labour Party
- MACKENZIE, Cllr Luke (Con, Pitsea SE)
- MALTHOUSE, Kit, MP (Con, NW Hants)
- MAY, Rt Hon Theresa (Lady), MP (Con, Maidenhead & fmr Tory PM)
- MERKEL, Angela (Chancellor of Germany)
- MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)
- National Conservative Convention
- OSBORNE, Rt Hon George, CH (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- RAAB, Rt Hon Dominic, MP (Con, Esher & Walton)
- South Basildon & East Thurrock (constituency)
- STEWART, Brian, CMG
- STEWART, Rt Hon Rory, OBE (fmr Tory MP for Penrith & The Border)
- STOCKTON, Harold, 1st Earl of, OM FRS (Harold Macmillan) (late Tory PM)
- STURGEON, Rt Hon Nicola, MSP (SNP First Minister of Scotland)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- Uncategorised
- WILLIAM, HRH The Duke of Cambridge, KG &c
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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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Full Council – 16.10.14
22nd October 2014My last blog on Full Council (sadly since disappeared due to technical issues) proved popular, so I thought I would do another quick write-up of last Thursday’s meeting of Full Council, which proved almost as hot-tempered as the last one. We knew from the get-go that it was going to be a long meeting because…
- ALLPORT-HODGE, Linda (fmr. UKIP cllr for Langdon Hills)
- Basildon Borough Council
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- GORDON, Cllr Andrew (Lab, Lee Chapel North)
- HALFON, Rt Hon Robert, MP (Con, Harlow)
- JOHNSON, Rt Hon Boris, MP (Con, Uxbridge & South Ruislip - Prime Minister)
- Labour Party
- Living Wage
- MILIBAND, Rt Hon Ed, MP (Lab, Doncaster North)
- National Minimum Wage
- OPPERMAN, Guy, MP (Con, Hexham)
- SMITH, Cllr Kerry (Ind, Nethermayne)
- TAYLOR, Byron (fmr. Labour cllr for Vange)
- TURNER, Cllr Phil (Con, Billericay West)
- UK Independence Party (UKIP)