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Tag Archives: Boris Johnson
My latest Argus column – written on Friday published today
So much is changing in such a short time – when I wrote this, Johnson had not disclosed his own COVID-19 and a number of construction businesses had not yet disclosed that on Friday they decided to close down their … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Economics, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Boris Johnson, Nadhim Zahawi, Robert Jenrick
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Sending the same letter to all of us wastes several opportunities
The fact that Mr Johnson has decided to communicate to everyone in the nation has mixed benefits. For anyone without access to the internet or a TV or Radio this may seem like a sensible way of ensuring that everyone … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Boris Johnson, C-19, Coronavirus, COVID-19
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We urgently need the Government to resolve their confusing announcements
Following last nights speech on TV from Boris Johnson a number of businesses including the one I work for made decisions to close down their activities, potentially for the next 3 weeks as requested by Johnson. It was not an … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Robert Jenrick
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We need a coherent National and International response to C-19
The challenge we are all facing in trying to understand the impact of Coronaviris or COVID-19 is made much more difficult by the lack of credible and consistent political leadership in a range of contexts (This piece was written on … Continue reading
Parliament offers opportunities for collaboration as well as conflict
Observing Politicians in the Houses of Parliament is something I find fascinating although most of the time, what gets said is much closer to conflict than collaboration. However occasionally a few words emerge that are based on collaboration that goes … Continue reading
Conservatives are not competent funding Police or any other public service
These two images above, both come from two Conservative Government Ministers speaking to the public and to local politicians, both referring to the same local tax arrangements. Back in 2012 Eric Pickles was working very hard to ensure that the … Continue reading
Perhaps Patel can also guide the British people who are emigrating?
It is deeply disturbing hearing and reading the comments from a number of the highest profile people in our current Governmental organisation. Although the departure of Andrew Sabisky is to be welcomed, what was much more disturbing was that he … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Andrew Sabisky, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Special Advisers
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We must protect people first and foremost and then in my view defend the BBC
I am well aware that many people in my city are offended by the way the BBC treated Labour in comparison to the Conservatives prior to the last General Election and indeed how it handled the Brexit issues throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Journalism, Parliament and Democracy, Policing
Tagged Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Lauren Moss, Nick May
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How incoherent can our Government be?
This post appeared on LinkedIn this morning and one could imagine that it was providing businesses with a range of information to help them prepare for our departure at the end of 2020. Unfortunately the link offered carries on with … Continue reading
This may be the only way forward for the next 4 years!
Mr Johnson and his team of campaigners wrote a series of simple ideas into their 2019 manifesto which one could argue led to many of their MPs getting elected. One of the most relevant ones was “People must have an … Continue reading
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