Monthly Archives: May 2009

Many of you think I amk feeble in not leading the calls for the resignation of the Speaker. Some of you think I am afraid he will not call me if I do. Let me make it clear. He frequently does not call me anyway. I am not one to be silenced by such considerations. [...]

I have often written about how much many people hate the bossy, autocratic snooper government which has damaged our freedoms in the last decade. We hate the cameras, the road blocks, the hectoring public advertisements, the multiplying army of regulators, the aggressive tax collectors, the enforced political correctness, the thought police, the concrete blocks around [...]

Yesterday saw another lamentable performance from the Bank of England. Some see it as commendable humility and honesty to tell us on many occasions they do not know what will happen next. It should lead instead to questions about why they employ so many highly paid economists and forecasters if they do not have a [...]

I understand the growing anger about the Speaker, which some of you have written to me about. Some of you ask, do I support a motion of No Confidence in the Speaker? I did not vote for Speaker Martin when he was first elected. I accept his authority by virtue of his holding the office, [...]

Yesterday was an important day in the battle to change attitudes towards public spending. MPs started to repay amounts they had claimed legally which the public thought unreasonable, as well as amounts that should not have been claimed. The day brought in more than £100,000 of returns. The boss of Network Rail who is paid [...]

Last night we had a trip down memory lane to a time when Parliament had some rights. The government allowed us to talk for as long as we liked about parts of the Finance Bill. We had a rare Parliamentary day without a guillotine. We could carry on with our work after 10 pm. The [...]

I have long been predicting slumpflation. It was inevitable, given the wild fiscal policy and the manic monetary policy the government and Bank are following. Figures for the last quarter show that is exactly what we now have. Manufacturing output is down a massive 13 % on a year ago. Why didn’t the authorities cut [...]

I hear this morning from the BBC that Mr Cameron is now “isolated” in Europe because he dares to take the Conservative Group out of the EPP. That puts us into line with the majority of people in Ireland who voted No to the Lisbon treaty. It puts us in line with the majority in [...]