Robert Buckland Weblog

More coverage of the unlawful use of knives in our society has resulted in yet another public safety proposal, namely a change in the design of everyday kitchen knives to blunt their ends.  Apart from causing me great problems when cutting tomatoes, removing the shartp pointed end from kitchen knives misses the real point about [...]

A truly great result from Crewe and Nantwich overnight; even if I hadn’t got up to check the result, I would have been awoken by a phone call from one of my Campaign Team at 3am. I think that we had to pinch ourselves to believe that a swing of 17.6% had been achieved. [...]

I was unable to be present last night, but as a supporter of previous attempts to make ladies Full Members of the Carlton Club, I was very pleased with the decision of members to change the rules to allow this. Bearing in mind the onset of equality legislation and the Club’s political position, adherence [...]

(From the left: Cllr Graham Cherry, RB and Cllr Dave Sammels)
I have now recovered after a day at the Crewe and Nantwich By-election on Saturday. Joined by Cllrs Dave Sammels and Graham Cherry, we set off at a fairly early hour to get in a day’s campaigning. We were amongst over 500 Conservatives [...]

Another week, another Budget.  We can be under no illusion whatsoever about the reason for the Brown/Darling U turn – splits in the Labour Party.  Unlike Denis Healey’s 1976 scenario, this bizarre somersault was not the product of international economics, but was the symptom of domestic turmoil within Labour.  The canvass returns from Crewe and [...]

The Local Elections in Swindon this year were a significant milepost on the way to the next General Election. The omens look good. We secured 53.8% of the vote in South Swindon, with Labour and the LibDems far behind on about 21% each. Turnout was down, which is always depressing, and it does not mean [...]

Yet again, I am experiencing that rather empty post-election feeling that comes around most years at this time.  Another May Day Bank Holiday Weekend which involved much travel, this time to the great city of Liverpool.  We managed to visit both Cathedrals.  George and I agree that the Anglican Cathedral is the better of the [...]