Monthly Archives: June 2011

Carbox Monoxide Awareness

Last year, I published an article about a young Wokingham resident who tragically died on 18 February 2010 from carbon monoxide poisoning. Her family has now set up a new charity, the Katie Haines Memorial Trust which has raised a considerable sum of money in an effort to raise awareness of carbon monoxide and to try [...]

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Article for Wokingham Times

                  It was always going to take a long time to turn round the financial and economic mess this country was in. So far the Coalition government has put taxes up – VAT and National Insurance – to start to bring the deficit down. Now they are meant to move on to getting more [...]

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Wokingham Careers Fair to be held on 6th October 2011 at the Loddon Valley Leisure Centre.

The Wokingham Secondary Federation are organising a Careers Fair on 6th October 2011. It will be held at the Loddon Valley Leisure Centre, Lower Earley, Wokingham. Last year this event attracted over 2000 young people, over 400 came with their parents. Click on this link to see the venue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTMmpEBl-8c The following opportunities will be [...]

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John Redwood’s contribution to Treasury Questions, 21 June

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): Given the large amount of state bank debt still on the balance sheet, will my right hon. Friend consider a scheme to make an early transfer of shares in the state-owned banks to taxpayers for free, on condition that, as and when people sell, they send money back to the [...]

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Bank share sales

               You read it here first!. I support the CPS scheme for transfer of bank shares to the public in the UK, and am glad Mr Clegg has joined the supporters list. I raised it again in Treasury Questions this week.

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The Euro crisis – Euroland should be bearing gifts to Greeks.

                  There are three possible ways of handling the Greek phase of the running Euro crisis. 1. Muddling through – or Pretend and Extend. This is the way favoured by the current Euro establishment. Greece is offered loans on special terms from Euroland members and the IMF in return for promising to make major [...]

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Controlling the deficit

              Yesterday the government reported that its additional borrowing in May amounted to £17.4 billion, £1.1 billion less than in May the previous year.              In the first two months of 2011-12 total borrowing reached  an additional £27.4 billion, compared to £25.9 billion in the same period the previous year.             Total national debt [...]

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John Redwood’s contribution to the urgent statement on the Eurozone (Contingency Plans), 20 June

Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): Given that Greece needs a work-out rather than another bail-out, will the British Government go to the International Monetary Fund and the EU and say the following? First, a second bail-out would mean sending good money after bad and should not be done; secondly, we need an urgent conference of [...]

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The future of Scotland

               Today we debate the Scotland Bill.  Both Labour and Conservative front benches support the Union and believe granting more powers of self government to Scotland and its Parliament is the way to preserve the Union. The SNP see the opportunity to demand more powers for the time being, whilst seeking to use the [...]

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Talking to the Taliban

  I was interested to learn that talks are now underway with the Taliban in Afghanistan. That implies Obama is at last thinking of getting more American troops back home. It probably means we too can be thinking of getting our troops back. As someone who has argued for many months that we need to [...]

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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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