Lunch at Stoke Park

Sunday lunch at the magnificent Stoke Park was under the auspices of the local Conservative Association. After lunch their MP, Dominic Grieve, spoke and I was fortunate to get in a question which I’d like to expand into a statement.

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Coming Home to Roost

When BMW announce they will close their Oxford plant, the one that makes Minis, for the whole of April 2019 in case there is an interruption to the supply of parts from Europe you really do have to sit up and think.

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Brexit Line

Contingency plans for a disruptive Brexit next year have been widely written about in the press but some measures are top secret. However, a highly placed government source leaked this.

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The Taxman Cometh

It may not seem like it but Income Tax rates in the UK are the lowest since I became a tax payer.

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Putting on the Heat

What on earth am I supposed to do? I have been deprived of complaining about the London weather for weeks. I have been having cold soups, salads, gallons of rosé – I hope EJ Murgatroyd isn’t reading today – and fortunately there is AC in my attic bedroom.

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I Told You So

Two years ago I told you so. Read Yellow Menace, one of my favourite posts from July 2016. A bit of Barmeath, a bit of Barons Court and a great number filmed on the Thames at the end.

On Behalf of Her Majesty …

Here they are and who is welcoming them? The media say Liam Fox (by name by nature), Secretary of State for International Trade. The media undermines the Constitution of the United Kingdom.

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Boris Balls

If you are unsure if we should Remain in or Leave the EU this paragraph from Boris Johnson’s resignation letter might help you make your mind up.

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Hot News

There’s been so much happening in London that I must take a break from Kyrgyzstan. I was doing the drying up in the kitchen and for the first time spotted Eddie Redmayne.