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The Power of NoneWhat do UK contributions to Eurozone bailouts, the failure to deport Abu Qatada and wind farms each have in common? They are, explained my constituent, “the sort of things I voted Conservative to stop. Yet they just seem to happen anyway”. No one voted to allow industrial-size wind turbines to march across the countryside, changing... |
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Cold Weather Payments have been triggered in South Derbyshire
Following on from my post on the 18th of January cold weather payments have now been triggered in the following postcodes in South Derbyshire. DE1, DE11, DE12, DE13, DE14, DE15, DE2, DE23, DE24, DE3, DE6, DE65, DE7, DE72, DE73, LE6, LE65 This...
BLOG: Neighbourhood Justice Panels to be piloted in Swindon
At the end of last year, I wrote about my support for the idea of Neighbourhood Justice Panels, and said I’d be lobbying hard for Swindon to be part of the government’s pilot project. As you may have read on the front page of yesterday’s Adver, we’ve been successful. I’m delighted that...
Greece should leave the Euro
The more I read about the economic disaster in Greece, the more I wish they would let them out of the currency straight jacket that is part of the problem. Greece has five main economic troubles. Its government has borrowed too much in the past, and wishes...
NEWS: Robert Buckland MP hears evidence from Jeremy Clarkson’s ex-wife in Privacy and Injunctions Joint Committee
Robert Buckland MP today sat on the 26 member strong Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions. The Committee heard evidence from Alex Hall, ex-wife to Jeremy Clarkson, in relation to an injunction taken out by Clarkson upon gaining knowledge of Hall’s proposed autobiography. In which she would ...
Praise for Essex Police from Home Secretary
Today I asked the Home Secretary if she would praise Essex Police for the incredible work they have done, helping to cut serious crime in Harlow.You can read the question and response below:Robert Halfon (Harlow): "Thank you Mr Speaker. Following on from my Hon. Friend, who just spoke, is my...
Reform human rights? Looks like it was just talk
February 6th 2012: After human rights judges ruled against his deportation, it is announced that Abu Qatada is “to be released within days”. August 21st 2007: David Cameron on the Human Rights Act; "It has to go. Abolish...
Not-so-windy wind farms
I am receiving plenty of e-mails about wind farms, as I am one of 105 MPs from the four largest political parties who have written to the Prime Minister urging a reduction in the amount of subsidy given to onshore wind and better provision for local opinion in the planning process. One resident has asked...
Press Release – 6 February 2012 – Local MP Calls on Businesses to Help Each Other Get Paid on Time
Local MP Calls on Businesses to Help Each Other Get Paid on TimeMP for Loughborough Nicky Morgan has welcomed the latest campaign from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills to help business get paid on time.The government's approach is to set an example, encourage all businesses to adopt...
Who are you calling rich?
Countries, like people, are only as rich as the difference between what they own or earn, and what they owe. Years of Western credit bubble economics cannot change that. Strip away all that central bank confected credit, and we are a lot less well off than we suppose. ...
Lord Lawson condems the present accounting regime for banks
In the Irish Times: ON JANUARY 1st 2005 the European Union imposed accounting rules on Irish banks containing a significant but simple flaw that had an impact on the fatal decision by the Irish government in 2008 to give Irish banks a blanket guarantee. via Bad loans were legally hidden as Lenihan made...
Conservative MPs and the “cuts”
In the later months in opposition, when I and other economically minded Conservatives were giving advice to Shadow Ministers, we were often told that our tunes would change a year or two into government. Wise Shadow Ministers knowingly explained to us that we might accept...
Treasury Select Committee Visit – Singapore
Singapore - the best place in the world to do business! That's according to the World Bank's 'Doing Business' Report. I am on a Treasury Select Committee visit to Singapore and China and I see our job as 1. Promoting British business; 2. Understanding how financial services are regulated and what Britain...
Master Baker
As an enthusiastic amateur baker, it was great to meet up with celebrity baker Paul Hollywood. As well as being the star of the Great British Bake Off, Paul runs an artisan bread making business at Aylesham. We discussed how small businesses should be given greater support from banks and how there should...
’101 Tories revolt over wind farms’ – Telegraph Today.
Lot of media coverage today of the letter sent to the Prime Minister asking for a reduction in the level of subsidy given to wind farm developers, and a rebalancing of planning rules in favour of those who oppose these monstrosities. 101 Conservatives have signed it, including the 3 Welsh Conservative...
