A blog from Matthew Dean, Southampton resident, publican, local government Councillor for Shirley and Officer of Southampton Test Conservative Association. Disclaimer; Please note any opinions or views expressed on this site are those of the author and may not reflect the views of the Conservative Party or any other organisation either locally or nationally.
A satirical take on events...
Saturday saw a thinly attended march (forty people tops) by an organisation called ‘United against Fascism’ in Southampton that apparently is propped up by the Southampton Trades Union Congress while an even more...
Bad times
As this 1909 poster shows, the Conservatives have long campaigned for full employment and it is no surprise that it should be part of the theme for this year's Conservative Party conference- people are feeling pretty bruised out there,...
a one club golfer as Ted Heath used to say...
I have always had a lot of time for Greg Clark MP. He is a passionate environmentalist but pragmatic too and has a reputation for being a hardworking MP.For my money, his analysis of the situation the...
local stars
An unpleasant reality though it is, Con artists are coming up with ever-more clever ways to scam people out of their hard earned cash and every year local authority trading standards officers are coming up against new scams. Getting...
