It is the season of ploughing matches and party conferences. I am a big fan of the former but not the latter which I have successfully managed to avoid even when immersed in politics during times gone by.
I have never understood the point of these gatherings other than for party leaders and key players to preen themselves amongst the party faithful. The posturing, pointless speeches, and as we saw last week when Keir Starmer delivered his ‘keynote’ speech, the spouting plenty of nonsense, including the vile and abusive language he and his deputy directed towards Reform and Nigel Farage.
In comparison ploughing matches embrace the heart of rural life, championing the good people who have for generations nurtured the precious soil we so depend upon to grow the food we rely upon to feed the nation.
The competitors whose ages ranged from 80s to mid-teens who took part in the Hurstpierpoint & District Ploughing Match which we hosted last weekend, are the crème de la crème of the farming world. We were blessed with fine weather. There was some very fine ploughing, interesting trade stands, and a surprisingly large number of members of the public. Many had walked from Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, and surrounding villages. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
The event was prepared, beautifully run and then at the end of the day cleared away, leaving the fields spotless, by the chairman and his small army of dedicated volunteers of all sorts. The fields have now been worked into a seed bed and planted with grass seeds including a mix of wildflowers, just in time for the rain which was well timed.
Whose idea was it to include Tony Blair in the efforts to bring peace and stability to Gazza? He has clearly promoted himself for his own agenda, just as he is apparently promoting ID cards which will no doubt benefit Tony Blair some way along the line.
His incompetent track record in the Middle East is chronic, and we know the man is a charlatan, so I am surprised President Tump has allowed him within a hundred miles of the White House. Even the dodgy Jeremy Corbyn said he wouldn’t consider electing Blair to be a dog catcher. Not that Corbyn who considers Hamas to be “an organisation dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people”, and that the British government’s labelling of Hamas as a terrorist organisation “is a big, big historical mistake”, has much to crow about.
The devastating attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, brought Keir Starmer out onto the airwaves with his crocodile tears, doing his best to sound sincere. He gave not a single word of apology for having given the green light for such an attack, despite only recently having rewarded Hamas by recognising Palestine, despite its ferocious attack on Isreal two years ago when they raped and beheaded women children and babies, killing 1,200, before taking 251 hostages.
Anti-Semitism has been escalating in the UK over several decades. That escalation has spiked as hordes of legal and illegal Muslim immigrants have moved into our towns and cities, gradually taking over key positions within our governing institutions. Just how many of these towns and cities have Muslim mayors and councillors?
Just about every community has a mosque, prayer room, or use of a hired hall; there are around 1,858 mosques at the last time of counting. Some imams preach hatred, some encourage their followers to carry out acts of terrorism, and if they don’t personally, they certainly do not attempt to control the extremists in their congregations.
These mayors do not represent ‘the people’, they represent their Muslim communities. Just watch how Sadiq Khan is behaving in London as he ignores questions from Susan Hall who asked him how many grooming gangs who rape and trade young white children for sex are within his city. Khan repeatedly chose to ignore the question as he goaded Mrs Hall into calling them Muslim gangs so he could call her a racist. May he be forgiven.
The last time I raised these matters was following the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. Later I was branded a racist and suspended as chairman and president of the Lewes Constituency Conservative Association at the time Theresa May attempted to scupper Brexit in 2019 after her Chequers weekend. My column was brought to light by some over enthusiastic journalist who sent a copy to Brandon Lewis the chairman of the Conservative party. Nothing could have been further from the truth, I care not what people’s skin colour is, or who they pray to, what I do care passionately about is, what they do and how they behave.
At the time I resigned from the party in disgust, my words were not racist, I told it as it was. My only crime being that when I quoted the local imam in Rochdale, I didn’t use quotation marks! What ever happened to free speech?
More recently I have resigned once again. This time my list of complaints regarding the history, current direction and recent underhand manner Central office handled the election for the conservative candidate standing for Sussex Mayor in 2026, being the final straw. A sad day: the party is not and has not been for some while the Conservative party is used to be and should be.
I have never understood the point of these gatherings other than for party leaders and key players to preen themselves amongst the party faithful. The posturing, pointless speeches, and as we saw last week when Keir Starmer delivered his ‘keynote’ speech, the spouting plenty of nonsense, including the vile and abusive language he and his deputy directed towards Reform and Nigel Farage.
In comparison ploughing matches embrace the heart of rural life, championing the good people who have for generations nurtured the precious soil we so depend upon to grow the food we rely upon to feed the nation.
The competitors whose ages ranged from 80s to mid-teens who took part in the Hurstpierpoint & District Ploughing Match which we hosted last weekend, are the crème de la crème of the farming world. We were blessed with fine weather. There was some very fine ploughing, interesting trade stands, and a surprisingly large number of members of the public. Many had walked from Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, and surrounding villages. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.
The event was prepared, beautifully run and then at the end of the day cleared away, leaving the fields spotless, by the chairman and his small army of dedicated volunteers of all sorts. The fields have now been worked into a seed bed and planted with grass seeds including a mix of wildflowers, just in time for the rain which was well timed.
Whose idea was it to include Tony Blair in the efforts to bring peace and stability to Gazza? He has clearly promoted himself for his own agenda, just as he is apparently promoting ID cards which will no doubt benefit Tony Blair some way along the line.
His incompetent track record in the Middle East is chronic, and we know the man is a charlatan, so I am surprised President Tump has allowed him within a hundred miles of the White House. Even the dodgy Jeremy Corbyn said he wouldn’t consider electing Blair to be a dog catcher. Not that Corbyn who considers Hamas to be “an organisation dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people”, and that the British government’s labelling of Hamas as a terrorist organisation “is a big, big historical mistake”, has much to crow about.
The devastating attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, brought Keir Starmer out onto the airwaves with his crocodile tears, doing his best to sound sincere. He gave not a single word of apology for having given the green light for such an attack, despite only recently having rewarded Hamas by recognising Palestine, despite its ferocious attack on Isreal two years ago when they raped and beheaded women children and babies, killing 1,200, before taking 251 hostages.
Anti-Semitism has been escalating in the UK over several decades. That escalation has spiked as hordes of legal and illegal Muslim immigrants have moved into our towns and cities, gradually taking over key positions within our governing institutions. Just how many of these towns and cities have Muslim mayors and councillors?
Just about every community has a mosque, prayer room, or use of a hired hall; there are around 1,858 mosques at the last time of counting. Some imams preach hatred, some encourage their followers to carry out acts of terrorism, and if they don’t personally, they certainly do not attempt to control the extremists in their congregations.
These mayors do not represent ‘the people’, they represent their Muslim communities. Just watch how Sadiq Khan is behaving in London as he ignores questions from Susan Hall who asked him how many grooming gangs who rape and trade young white children for sex are within his city. Khan repeatedly chose to ignore the question as he goaded Mrs Hall into calling them Muslim gangs so he could call her a racist. May he be forgiven.
The last time I raised these matters was following the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017. Later I was branded a racist and suspended as chairman and president of the Lewes Constituency Conservative Association at the time Theresa May attempted to scupper Brexit in 2019 after her Chequers weekend. My column was brought to light by some over enthusiastic journalist who sent a copy to Brandon Lewis the chairman of the Conservative party. Nothing could have been further from the truth, I care not what people’s skin colour is, or who they pray to, what I do care passionately about is, what they do and how they behave.
At the time I resigned from the party in disgust, my words were not racist, I told it as it was. My only crime being that when I quoted the local imam in Rochdale, I didn’t use quotation marks! What ever happened to free speech?
More recently I have resigned once again. This time my list of complaints regarding the history, current direction and recent underhand manner Central office handled the election for the conservative candidate standing for Sussex Mayor in 2026, being the final straw. A sad day: the party is not and has not been for some while the Conservative party is used to be and should be.
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