Monthly Archives: April 2010

What a difference an election makes. When Kraft were bidding for Cadbury the government said they were powerless to stop it. They did not propose any legislation to give themselves the power to stop such deals. We know, as they proved with the Digital Economy Bill and the Finance Bill, that they could push unwanted [...]

As a blogger pointed out, the Input and Output price inflation is going up just as we feared. House prices are also on the rise. The government may see this as a kind of success, with an election in the offing. The deflation they wrongly feared has not come to pass. Others see it as [...]

Why can’t Labour and Lib Dems spare us the false allegations and the crocodile tears. Today they claim to have discovered that Tory plans for a more efficient public sector mean fewer public sector jobs. So do Labour plans, if they knew how to implement them and if they were honest about them. The whole [...]

As feared, the Lords did not seek to prevent the passage into law of the badly drafted and ill thought through Digital Bill I spoke about earlier in the week. Only the Lords could have stopped this Bill, given the determination of Labour to use its majority to put it through. Some people seem to [...]

As from today this site becomes not just www.johnredwood.com but also the regulated site of John Redwood, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Wokingham. The main site will continue unchanged, whilst the materials for the Wokingham election will normally appear on the local issues pages. The whole site is being treated as an election expense and will [...]

Yesterday the government presented a Business motion to the House which allowed just one hour to “complete” consideration of the Digital Economy Bill, and a mere 3 hours to consider and pass an entirely new 71 Clause Finance Bill. It summed up all that has been wrong for the last five years. It was the [...]

On the ropes over taxes and the deficits, Mr Brown is trying to change the subject today. He wants to talk about a new democracy. He does so without a hint of irony and without a moment for self reflection. Yesterday he could have instructed the Ministers in his government to try a little democracy [...]