Category: Parliament, Houses of
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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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Lord Howe of Aberavon (1926-2015) – RIP
11th October 2015I was deeply saddened to learn of the death of former Conservative Chancellor, Lord Howe of Aberavon, at the age of 88. Geoffrey Howe was Margaret Thatcher’s longest-serving Cabinet minister and was one of the primary authors of her government’s economic revolution. Although best remembers as Mrs Thatcher’s first chancellor, he was also the second…
- Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985
- BIFFEN, John, Lord, PC DL (late Tory Peer)
- Bow Group
- BRITTAN of SPENNITHORNE, Leon, Lord, PC QC (late Tory peer)
- BROOKS, Dr Edwin
- BUTLER of SAFFRON WALDEN, R. A., Lord, KG CH (late Tory peer)
- CAMILLA, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, GCVO
- CARRINGTON, Peter, 6th Lord, KG GCMG CH MC (late Tory peer)
- Centre for Policy Studies
- Community Charge (Poll Tax)
- Conservative & Unionist Party
- CORBYN, Rt Hon Jeremy, MP (Ind, Islington North & fmr Leader of the Opposition)
- Economy
- ELIZABETH II, HM The Queen
- Employment Act (1980)
- Euro (European Single Currency)
- Europe
- Exchange Rate Mechanism
- FOOT, Rt Hon Michael, FRSL (late Labour MP)
- GILMOUR of CRAIGMILLAR, Iain, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Government
- GREY of FALLODEN, Edward, 1st Viscount, KG (late Liberal Foreign Secretary)
- HEAD, Anthony (actor)
- HEALEY, Dennis, Lord, CH MBE FRSL (late Labour Chancellor)
- HEATH, Rt Hon Sir Edward, KG MBE (late Tory PM)
- HESELTINE, Michael, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- Hong Kong
- HOSKYNS, Sir John
- House of Lords Reform Act (2014)
- HOWARD of LYMPNE, Michael, Lord, CH QC (Tory peer)
- HOWE of ABERAVON, Geoffrey, Lord, CH QC (late Tory Chancellor)
- HOWE of IDLICOTE, Elspeth, Baroness, CBE (Tory peer)
- HOWE, B. Edward
- Industrial Relations Act (1971)
- INGHAM, Sir Bernard
- Iron Lady, The (film)
- JENKINS, Sir Simon, FSA FRSL (journalist)
- JOSEPH, Keith, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- KAUFMAN, Rt Hon Sir Gerald (late Labour MP)
- LAMONT of LERWICK, Norman, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LAWSON of BLABY, Nigel, Lord (fmr. Tory Chancellor)
- LILLEY, Peter, Lord (Tory peer)
- Lords, House of
- MacDONALD, Rt Hon Ramsay (late Labour PM)
- MACLEOD, Rt Hon Iain (late Tory MP)
- MAJOR, Rt Hon Sir John, KG CH (fmr. Tory PM)
- OAKSHOTT, Hendrie, Lord (late Tory peer)
- Office of Fair Trading
- Parliament, Houses of
- POWELL of BAYSWATER, Charles, Lord, KCMG OBE (Tory peer)
- PRIOR, Jim, Lord (late Tory peer)
- REIGATE, John, Lord (Sir John Vaughan-Morgan) (late Tory peer)
- Right Approach to the Economy, The
- SHAND, P. Morton
- SHULTZ, Prof George P
- ST JOHN of FAWSLEY, Norman, Lord, FRSL (Sir Norman St John-Stevas) (late Tory peer)
- STOCKTON, Harold, 1st Earl of, OM FRS (Harold Macmillan) (late Tory PM)
- STRAUSS, Norman
- STREEP, Meryl (actress)
- TEBBIT, Norman, Lord, CH (Tory peer)
- THATCHER, Margaret, Baroness, LG OM (late Tory PM)
- THORNEYCROFT, Peter, Lord, CH (late Tory peer)
- WALTERS, Prof Sir Alan
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Only the Conservatives will give you a say on Europe
5th July 2013I 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…