Monthly Archives: August 2008

Economic crisis – too much government spending and borrowing

It’s typical that at a time when the issue is Why is the government spending so much more and borrowing so much more than it forecast some should want the issue to be Tory spending plans. The issue today must be How can this government get a grip on the public finances? It wrongly thinks [...]

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Tax and spend

What I said to The Sunday Telegraph was if Labour wanted to get back to their budget plans they had to stop spending money like water and cut out waste and less desirable spending. They are going to need an emergency package to put right all the damage they are doing by wasting and borrowing [...]

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Amongst so many Gold medals, let’s remember the first cross Channel swimmer.

Today we celebrate the remarkable feat of a great swimmer. Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel through his epic swim on the 24th and 25th of August 1875. Webb first attained fame through diving into the Atlantic in an attempt to save a drowning passenger from his ship. He [...]

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Bosworth – what did the Tudors do for us?

Some of my friends are both Catholics and Eurosceptics. They are sensible people, and rightly see nothing contradictory in that stance. The once Catholic kingdom of France is now a secular Republic, and once Catholic Spain is no longer an aggressive exporter of the faith by force of arms. Protestant Germany is an important motor [...]

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Wokingham Times

NICE has been in the firing line recently. This body which has the duty to decide which drugs the NHS can buy and which are unsuitable on grounds of efficacy and cost has been caught in the crossfire. On one side the pharmaceutical companies have been running effective campaigns to claim NICE was wrong to [...]

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Fuel Poverty and Tax Poverty – what Gord gives with one hand he takes with another

The government’s own “Fuel poverty” adviser has been on TV and radio telling us that we will have more people in fuel poverty this winter than at any time for the last ten years. Well, there’s a surprise! I wonder how much he and his staff get paid to come out with such obvious statements. [...]

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Data loss – how much more before they see the need to cancel the ID computer?

You would have thought after all the fuss over data loss so far under this government Ministers would have got a grip by now. The hapless Home Secretary once again has to apologise for the incompetence of her department, after all her lectures and promises to have put it right. This is another serious data [...]

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Wokingham MP’s website gains top spot in Total Politics blog awards

John Redwood has thanked all the people who voted to make his website, www.johnredwood.com, the top ranked MP’s website as chosen by the readers of the top sixty political blogs in the UK and Total Politics magazine. John Redwood’s blog was voted the best blog produced by a Member of Parliament. The full results will [...]

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Who do you want to beat in the medals table?

As one of many people who is delighted by the huge success of UK competitors in Beijing my delight is the positive one for them, not the negative one that we are beating the Aussies. The rash of stories saying that the true competition is between us and them, and our victory over Australia is [...]

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Better airports at last? Will competition fly in Scotland?

Today brings the judgement of the Competition Commission on the BAA. As an early advocate of competitive airports for London, I look forward to being able to offer at least a couple of cheers for getting some of the way there at last. In an ideal world there would be different owners for each of [...]

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    John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College, and has a DPhil from All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has been a director of NM Rothschild merchant bank and chairman of a quoted industrial PLC.
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