The Remain media seem to think EU membership was just about trading arrangements, and that you cannot trade successfully outside the EU. Both these assumptions are completely wrong. Leave voters voted to take back control of our money, our borders and… read more
Every family in the UK must have slept so much easier this night one hundred years ago. The terrors of warfare in an industrial age had been great. Life in the trenches was dreadful. It drove some men mad and left many more maimed for life. All too ma… read more
In 2017 UK ports handled 482 million tonnes of cargo. 62% was imports.Dover accounted for just 5.4% of this. EU trade accounted for 43% of the tonnage handled.Dover Calais should work fine, but there are plenty of other options if the French change th… read more
Last night there was a good attendance at the Wokingham Conservatives annual dinner, with the Lord Chancellor as our speaker and guest of honour. He talked about prison reform, explaining how we was seeking to get drugs and organised crime rings out o… read more
Twice in the twentieth century government and Parliament sent the professional but small British army onto the continent to fight against German militarism and expansion. In 1914 around 100,000 men were sent as the British Expeditionary Force. They fo… read more