Author Archives: john graham

During the 2017 General Election campaign, Sir Richard Branson had become increasingly concerned about the Labour Party proposals to re-nationalise the railways.    Nor was it at all clear what impact HS2 would have on his railway franchise.    Another big … Continue reading →

As the Brexit negotiations proceeded, the Conservative Party found that the future of Gibraltar became a significant stumbling block negotiations to exit the EU.   To avoid this, they agreed to transfer sovereignty of Gibraltar to the Last Laugh Looney … Continue reading →

As expected, Scotland continued to vote differently to the rest of the UK and although the Conservatives gained a few seats, the SNP still retained a significant majority in Scotland. However, the Last Laugh Looney Party did manage to capture … Continue reading →

The centrepiece of the Last Laugh Looney Party Manifesto was to enable older people to move to a self-governing, tax-free haven in the islands on the coast of the UK.  In return older people would sell their houses in the … Continue reading →

We now know the results of the 2017 General Election and as expected the Conservative Party has been re-elected.     But it has a smaller  number of MP’s than it really hoped to get which will make the Brexit … Continue reading →

Strictly speaking, as this is now voting day for the election, there should be no canvassing today.  However, I will use it to at least sum up all the other Party Manifestos’ comments directly about older people, in the same … Continue reading →