Tag Archives: Keir Starmer

A disturbing basis for free COVID testing post March

Posted on February 22, 2022 by ianchisnall

Yesterday in the House of Commons Boris Johnson made a statement and one of the themes was the the testing capability for COVID. The whole of the statement and indeed the range of conversations can be seen from here. In … Continue reading →

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How many more lies from our Prime Minister?

Posted on February 14, 2022 by ianchisnall

One of the challenges that we are currently facing is how unreliable or rather how incompetent our UK Government is on several levels. Another challenge is how much attention is being placed by Conservative MPs into the problems that are … Continue reading →

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Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have lied

Posted on February 8, 2022 by ianchisnall

As Boris stated back a week last Monday in his response to the Sue Gray report “this Leader of the Opposition, a former Director of Public Prosecutions—although he spent most of his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy … Continue reading →

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Bring it on and contain your impatience says Johnson

Posted on January 20, 2022 by ianchisnall

Yesterday the first person to speak during the Prime Minister’s Questions was Wendy Chamberlain who is the MP for North East Fife which is a position she achieved at 2019. She is the Liberal Democratic MP and serving as Chief … Continue reading →

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A number of calls, but no response

Posted on January 13, 2022 by ianchisnall

Yesterday in the Prime Minister’s Questions there were several very clear calls directed to Boris Johnson for him to resign and his response was simply for the nation and Parliament to wait for the answer from the inquiry by Sue … Continue reading →

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The verdict of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard

Posted on October 4, 2021 by ianchisnall

On Thursday last week the sentence for the man who raped and murdered Sarah Everard in March this year was announced. In the few hours before the announcement and since then there have been a number of significant statements made … Continue reading →

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Proportional Representation is vital Labour

Posted on September 30, 2021 by ianchisnall

As the Conference in Brighton and Hove which is part of Sussex closes down and the Labour MPs and the party members return to their own locations the Sussex area like many other parts of the UK is left wondering … Continue reading →

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Youth provision has been stripped out over the last 10 years

Posted on August 30, 2021 by ianchisnall

I recall very clearly how the Conservative Party used to regularly comment about the decisions taken by the Labour Party in their 13 years length Government. As it happens several of our local Conservative MPs made these comments over the … Continue reading →

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The appalling approach of our current Government

Posted on August 19, 2021 by ianchisnall

As I wrote yesterday here, we have a number of credible people in Parliament on the theme of the terrible Afghanistan issue. Here are some of the statements made by a few of the sensible and credible people and tragically … Continue reading →

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This Queens Speech includes several Conservative U turns

Posted on May 17, 2021 by ianchisnall

Last week the second Queens Speeches since the 2019 General Election and the first in this decade took place. Inevitably the one that follows a General Election is focused on the Manifesto that was published by the party or group … Continue reading →

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