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Wokingham Conservatives select Lucy Demery as Parliamentary candidate
I attended the Wokingham Conservatives selection meeting on Friday 31 May. We interviewed three candidates proposed by CCHQ from their approved list.
I agreed with the majority view that Lucy Demery was the best candidate for the vacancy.
Lucy Demery is a talented business woman with a good understanding...Read More »
So both main parties now want lower migration
I helped persuade the Sunak government to take action to cut legal migration last year. This January they took some steps to do so.
Now I read Labour too want to bring it down. They decline to tell us how or by how much. Meanwhile they have announced policies for an...Read More »
Net zero changes needed
The U.K. needs to go further than adopting a more realistic rhetoric about getting to net zero. It needs to keep recent policy changes and add additional ones
1 Policies to keep
It needs to extract more U.K. oil and gas in place of more LNG and oil imports
It needs to keep...Read More »
This election needs an honest conversation about net zero
The ideas of Labour, Greens and Lib Dems offering us a future abundance of cheap renewable electricity is a dangerous deceit.
We lack the guard capacity to shift more to electrical operation and to handle more renewable generation from far off and unreliable wind turbines. It is an absurd lie...Read More »
The election and migration
The Conservative government since 2019 has let in too many people, mainly by granting visas for legal entry. The Labour, SNP and Lib Dem opposition has vigorously opposed some measures to clamp down on illegal migrants, leaving our borders poorly policed against small boat people trafficking. Labour says they will...Read More »