Category: Labour Party

I don’t generally write up Planning Committee meetings but, as Tuesday night’s one has proved controversial and I’ve been getting lots of questions about it – both via e-mail and directed to me on social media – I thought it’d be simpler and easier to write it up for my website.  So here goes. For…

My 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…

Here is my letter, recently published in The Enquirer regarding Basildon Labour’s ongoing tit for tat over whether or not the Conservatives and UKIP have gone into coalition on Basildon Council (we haven’t, for the record). ONE can only wonder at what your readers must make of the recent flurry of letters from Labour politicians…

I just wanted to record some thoughts on last Thursday

Election time is upon us, with Polling Day on Thursday 22nd May for Basildon Borough Council and also for the European Parliament. It has been nice getting out in Billericay East ward and getting to meet with and chat to many of you. It has been a little under a year now since I won…

It is difficult to sum up the emotions I feel at the death of Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn – better known as Tony Benn. He was unquestionably one of the great political iconoclasts of XX-Century British politics – a man of firm conviction and probably one of the Left’s most erudite and sympathetic advocates. No…

Once again, the Conservative administration on Basildon Borough Council have delivered for our residents. I was pleased and proud to vote in favour of the Budget, which has frozen the Council Tax – the FOURTH year running that Basildon Tories have delivered either a freeze or a cut to the Council Tax for our hard-working…

The sad passing of Nelson Mandela has obviously overshadowed the Autumn Statement delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week. In his speech, George Osborne confirmed that, thanks to the Government’s long-term economic plan, the British economy is back on track and our burgeoning recovery underway, with growth set to more than double this year… This…

Yesterday’s employment figures are the latest piece of  encouraging news for the British economy. We’ve come a long way since 2010. Labour left Britain  with the biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history – and  during their last three years in power, the number of people in work  fell by 256,000. But thanks to the…

The news that UK unemployment fell by 24,000 between May and July is extremely welcome news and further evidence that the Coalition’s policies are working. Contrary to what some would like you to believe, this rise was driven entirely by growth in full-time jobs. We have now seen 1.4 million new private sector jobs created…