For some reason it appears, either no one exactly knows how many Bulgarians and Romanians are coming to this country in the New Year – or the numbers are so huge no one dares speaks them!

No one that is including Bulgarian and Romanian officials, who should at least have an idea how many have applied for permits.

How bizarre?!

That is why; this government issuing measures to reduce benefit abuses makes perfect sense. Preparing for the anticipated is good management practice and should be welcomed. And most appreciate it, except ‘of course’ Labour and UKIP. But we already know both won’t benefit ‘politically’ from the measure.

Labour is unhappy because they take being an opposition literally. Many times, they object before seeing the full facts! Then later say ‘if elected’ they will stick to the government’s policy. Unfortunately, UKIP on the other hand, are coming across as a hateful party that absolutely does not like anyone or anything.

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Lauran Sandys announcing she is stepping down after only one term is unfortunate. We never met so I don’t know her – but those who do say very nice things about her. I do wish her good luck.

But I do know she is the third female Conservative MP to quit ‘a marginal seat’ after only one term. Louise Mensch was the first, last year she handed Corby back to Labour with a sizable majority. Then in September, Lorraine Fullbrook the South Ribble MP also decided to pack it in after nursing her seat for two parliaments!

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that something is the matter.

Either the Commons is not a place for women which some might dispute. After all there are many women who seem to happily and successfully juggle work and family as MPs. But also there are many female MPs who forgo a family life for a political one.

Or could it be something internal, like the A’List for instance? Let’s be honest – the A’List was a manufactured forcibly injected equilibrium of more women and BMEs. A’Listers were mostly handpicked, many didn’t have their heart and soul 100% in becoming MPs yet could not resist the allure of becoming one.

Either or there seems to be a problem.

One or two women stepping down for family reasons can be expected. Three leaving is interesting. But when you hear, according to ConservativeHome, more will announce they are leaving by the end of this parliament. Then something is seriously the matter.

Not one to beat on a dead horse (the A’List), I do hope the Conservatives; the party of meritocracy, equal opportunity and hard graft has learnt the lesson form that one.

Modernising is good. And like all good things in life it is only strong if it comes about organically, from the ground up and not the other way round.

The Conservatives is the most naturally evolved and evolving party, just look at our history; we passed the test of times time and again. We should respect and be proud of that.

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Parents sharing childcare leave for up to a year, though on the surface it sounds like a fair idea, as it allows couples a choice which parent to stay home longer, but look deep and it could be problematic.

I am not even going to address its implications on businesses, particularly small businesses.

In the early weeks of any child, parenting is far more than who gives the night feed and changes the first nappy. There is a nurturing bond between mother and child that can never be replaced by a father or a hired help and here is where this move can be serious.

The first months of any child’s life are very crucial to the his development. It is an important time and a journey of nurturing and discovery for both mother and child. It is therefore vital that we understand that, and in helping families to coop and manage their times and finances not forget the biology of it all.

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Banning the Khat surprised even me. Then why don’t we ban marijuana, heroin, coke and how about alcohol and cigarettes1? They are all bad for our health.

As a Conservative, I find it very difficult to justify banning stuff.

Instead of banning and instantly creating a black-market for the banned product, why not fully educate about its harm? Use ex- users to talk to students and communities. Let people learn then decide for themselves.

It is proactive and less intrusive into peoples’ lives!

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Last weekend I didn’t post my Saturday usual, because I had a 09.00 TickIT meeting in Birmingham. I like to think I am diligent and committed enough to get up at 05.00 and do both, but I like my sleep.

So leaving at 06.45 was all I could muster that morning.

As we move closer to May 2015 the lines between the parties seem to become clearer. But let’s not allow that separation and renewed promises sidestep the facts. Because these facts are our history and as George Santayana said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

While Labour is exercising selective amnesia or all together denying their involvement in any wrong doing, in the dumbing down of schooling and damage to the education system, or in exercising deliberate open door immigration to suite their purposes or overlooking neglect in the health and social care services out of sheer incompetence…..

While Labour continues to pretend that their 13 years in office were good for Britain, and the only wrong is the reforms put together and implemented by a ‘out of touch’ coalition government…….

While conveniently they bury their heads in the sand, Michael Gove is fixing the education system. Theresa May is monitoring, managing and controlling immigration. Jeremy Hunt is cleaning up the NHS. Iain Duncan Smith is sorting out the welfare and benefits system. Plus it was a LibDem policy that in the toughest economic period lifted millions out of paying income tax before earning £10,000.

All are champions working hard for Britain and building an aspiration self-reliant proud to be a part of nation.

Labour must never forget what they did to this nation’s economy, social welfare, immigration system, aspersion and self believe. Britain must always remember what 13 years of Labour have done to it.

We are finally, albeit slowly, coming out on the other side. But we must always remember it was Labour that sold our gold cheap; mismanaged the economy, left no money in the banks, did not invest in proper infrastructure, created a culture of dependency, destroyed the education system, the NHS, and Social Services.

We must always remember that it was Labour that killed aspiration.

While in office, they neglected to build sufficient housing even when they opened our doors to everyone, did not repatriate laws from the EU or stand up for human injustices around the world. It was Labour politicians who befriended known dictators and turned a blind eye when it suited them.

All I am saying is just SHUT UP! We were all their and saw what you did and didn’t do.

What was Unite thinking? How can bullying people be acceptable or beneficial to the unions’ cause is beyond me. At a time when even socialists’ support to unions is a cautious undertaking, someone in Unite union thought it was a good idea to target the homes of Gangemouth refinery mangers to put pressure on them and their families. Unbelievable!

This comes from the body founded mainly to protect works and their rights? The tactics, the manner by which it was conducted and Unite insisting that all its activities have been legal and legitimate make me and many wonder if it is time for unions to go. Because they no longer do what they were founded to do and that is to protect and give voice to vulnerable workers against tyrant bosses.

Unite’s latest stunt, the so –called ‘leverage tactics’ is disturbing. I wonder, will Labour now seriously consider their affiliation with them and their money?

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Is it just me, or do others feel the same about HS2. First, I do understand the importance of an efficient and reliable train line that connects the country from north to south. We have many existing lines that could be improved to meet that demand, especially as HS2 will only shave a few minutes from the current journey time, so why not improve what we already have?

Second, I get the feeling that even its supporters are not too convinced by its financial cost, its cost to the countryside, or the extent of its benefits. Many seem to sit on the fence. The arguments for its benefits, in journey time and cost are weak and unconvincing to say the least.

Don’t get me wrong, developing the country’s infrastructure is an important matter both economically and socially and a strong transport network is at the heart of it. I am sure HS2 has its long term benefits, but neither the politicians nor the economists have convinced me why we need to make a decision right now.

So why can’t the decision to build it be tabled till after 2015. When the economy is hopefully stronger, our finances are much better and the case for HS2 is clearer. I don’t usually resort to men and women comparisons, but in this occasion I think a woman’s touch is needed; I see too much testosterone and not enough common sense.

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Its open primaries’ season, I hear there is a big one today in Tonbridge and Bath had one yesterday. Last parliament about this time I would have been all over Prospective Parliamentary Candidates’ (PPC’s) selections; know everyone and probably applying to some sections myself. You see I wanted to become a member of parliament and not just any MP but a Conservative MP. Actually, this website and blog started as a result of that quest. My journey, that desire and why they changed is a long story and a very fascinating one, I promise to tell it all one day.

For now, I am glad the party is using open primaries, they are more engaging. I hope in the future they become larger and more diverse.

Best of luck to all those who are fighting them.

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Delighted Andrew Mitchell received some form of an apology. Thought I would have liked a little bit more funfair – after all the man has lost his job due to a fabricated deliberate lie. Nonetheless it’s an apology! Time to learn from the whole incident and move on, however and in my humble opinion, he still deserves a promotion and a great post in government, maybe something international.

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It always fascinates me when people mostly politicos, say Cameron has not responded to Miliband’s this or the other. But wait a minute. Isn’t Cameron the Prime Minster? Then he does not have or need to respond to the leader of the opposition’s dreamt up policies. Why? Because the opposition does not make the policies, the government does.

So all this fuss over Miliband’s promise of an energy freeze is just a waste of time and we all know why. Oppositions can promise the moon and the stars and don’t have to deliver either. We all know it and Miliband does too. Let’s put to one side that between now and 2015 energy companies will make all the increases they need to cover them until 2017. And even then Miliband can give a million and one reasons as to why the freeze it is not feasible and can’t be delivered.

Sadly we will never truly find out, because Labour will not win in 2015.

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Cameron is very cleaver, I keep saying it and people keep dismissing it. His promise to reduce green taxes, is a very shrewd business and political move and it’s a win, win.

Yes he hugged a Husky and said ‘Vote Blue Go Green’ but that was in 2006 when energy cost was less and heating bills were lower, money was better then and nobody anticipated old and vulnerable people had to choose between heating and eating.

Today all that has changed. Cameron will be an evil man if he sat and did nothing. So, promising to look at and possibly reducing green levies is 1) a viable economic solution – reducing is not doing away with then, it is just decreasing them. 2) who will dare at the risk of appearing callous and cruel to object to reducing heating bills at this austere times.

On Wednesday, Cameron showed he is the leader of the people, the one who cares and carefully considers what he says before saying it. Because his promises aren’t just for show and sensational headlines, they are real and policy making material.

Can’t say the same about the Milibrother

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Mitchell, Mitchell, Mitchell the week was dominated by Andrew Mitchell and Plebgate. And I suspect next week will be too.

Despite my huge respect, admiration and appreciation to our police, I never for a second doubted Andrew and it pained me that many Conservatives, who knew him better than I, didn’t feel the same. Not because he is a Tory, but because he is Andrew Mitchell and if you knew the man, you‘d know he wasn’t laying and something was very, very wrong with the whole thing and its timing.

I was also shocked by David Cameron’s lukewarm support during the whole thing. Remember Cameron is the man who went to the wire for Andy Coulson but when it came to Mitchell he wasn’t as confident or so it seemed form the weakness of his support. Or the then Deputy Chief Whip, John Randall MP. The letter/email he received from a constituent claiming to have witnessed the incident was too convenient and should have been investigated fully before even making it public at the time. However, I am glad Rendall has since removed himself from the Whips’ Office – conservative or not he proved to be unqualified for his post.

The police are mostly honourable decent men and women who do a sterling job daily. But like all institutions, there are bad apples in the police and they should be dealt with appropriately. Of the top of my head I can think of at least three who should be dealt with pronto.

Thank God for Ron Bell, Warwickshire PCC, Mr Bell unlike the West Midland’s PCC Bob Jones, has proved to be a sensible and decent man. Bell has correctly launched a full investigation into the matter, to cover all bases, before giving any major statements.

But the biggest thanks goes to Michael Crick and Channel Four, for exposing the whole thing and making it public.

I am confident that I echo many voices when I say if the police can fit-up a government minster what hope do mere mortals like me have. We, Britain, can never be that – the perpetrators, their accomplices and supporters should be named, shamed and dealt with swiftly.

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I am always fascinated by how some things become big news and dominate every conversation and get treated as fact when they are not! Take the PM told people to wear a jumper to keep warm nonsense…. Here is what really happened , from non other than the BBC – start at 34.21 minutes and decide for yourself.

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Listening to Nicola Sturgeon, speak at the SNP annual conference in Perth, I am very concerned about the future of Scotland. A Yes vote will destroy it. Sadly it seems in desperation, the SNP will promise anything as long as they can split our nation.

But I am positive the people of Scotland are on to them.

Keep the Union and get rid of Nicola Sturgeon.

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This week was a mixed bag both personally and otherwise.

I hate seeing friends in trouble or do badly. Adam Afriyie’s EU Referendum Bill, was a bad idea especially if ‘as he says’ his intention was not to out manoeuvre Dave.

Tories who hope David Cameron is there ‘for a thousand years’ offer him constructive criticism and loyal support. Call me old fashion, but undermining a leader you don’t want to replace contradicts both.

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Watching Question Time on Thursday, I was in stitches. I laughed so hard when Diane Abbott said she was sacked form Labour’s Shadow Cabinet because of her stance on Syria and opposition to bombing Damascus.

Clearly, she has not read and understood the government’s motion before voting on it.

Oh Diane you are so funny but not so clever. You see these things (Government Motions) are on record for all to see and read – that was one of those times where keeping quiet and smiling nicely would have been better.

And don’t get me started on her “we did some fantastic things” on education comment !?!?

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It turned out Ed ‘I will freeze energy bills for two years’ Miliband has been steeling slogans ‘literally’ left, right and centre, from Neil Kinnock and the Conservatives….

How that is a surprise is beyond me. The man is a student of Gordon Brown, and was handpicked and funded by the unions!

The question people need to ask is, what’s original about Ed Miliband?

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Since the dawn of day, women have been mothers, and as life evolved women’s roles and responsibilities evolved with it. Granted some fifty, sixty years ago all women did and aspired to do was become wives and mothers. But things have changed since then. We ‘women’ are now able to be and do more, and proved to be very good at doing more than one thing at a time.

Today we are able to do more than our predecessors did or could do.

Nonetheless, mothering plus holding down a job, can in no way be the most difficult job on earth. So when some moms’ organization representative, comes on TV to tell us being a mother (which I am for two very beautiful and bright young ladies) is the toughest job, honestly I feel a little embarrassed.

I raised two girls as a single parent, sometimes it was hard and at times even impossible, but I won’t say being a mother was the toughest job. Because I am very sure being a solider on the front line, a fire-fighter putting out fires, a doctor or a nurse working on infectious killer diseases, or a miner working underground …., are all much tougher jobs than being a mother.

Don’t get me wrong mothers are wonderful and becoming a mom is the best thing that happened to me. However, what I am saying here, parenting; especially good parenting can be very challenging but let’s keep things in prospective.

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Understand were the government is going with their latest immigration directives, where involving GPs, State Agents and Banks in vetting and checking that their patients and customers are legal aliens. I also understand that it is added on to what UK Borders will naturally do. It is cost effective, plus collective responsibility is a good civic exercise. However, I fear it will allow for passing the blame.

It is a known fact, wherever you have more than one body responsible, it dilutes responsibilities and allows for more mistakes and blame.

Ideally border security should be carried out thoroughly at the point of entry by trained and authorised borders agents. This way we all know where the buck stops.

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This week, I shall start backwards.

Firstly, I agree 100% with Benedict Brogan’s description of Cameron’s conference speech. It was confident, well-delivered and intellectually compelling.

Unlike Clegg and Miliband, who only talked to their core audience, in his conference speech, David Cameron talked to the nation. He talked to everyone, conservatives and non-conservatives alike. Some would say, but he is the prime minster. And that’s the main difference between him and the others. He is the Prime Minster, but also looks and acts prime ministerial. Neither Miliband nor Clegg possesses the gravities or the authority needed to run this country. Cameron on the other hand has both in abundance. It was evident in his interviews, conference speech, his team and his demeanour.

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My father is no longer with us, his memory, his name and his deeds are precious to me and I will be livid if anyone said anything unsavoury about him. So Ed Miliband’s anger at the Daily Mail is understandable. However, he cannot solely blame the Mail for digging or commenting on his father’s past, because he continuously mentions his dad and the influence he had on him and his politics.

It’s a case of having your cake and eating it too. As unfortunate as it is, truth be said, it was Miliband that started it all.

By breaking the cardinal rule of politics, and continuously mentioning his father in every political speech. Ed Miliband has put his dad front and centre, and exposed him to discussion. Politicians who don’t want to use their families don’t mention, reference or parade them. Miliband did them all.

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Sincerity feel sorry for white, straight, Christian men, seems you're the only group expected to take it on the chin & grin

— Walaa Idris (@WalaaIdris) October 3, 2013

This tweet was born out of a general feeling which I am sure is shared by many.

It seems these days, if you are a Jew, a Muslim, gay, a woman or ethnic any negative comment written or said about you can be seen as anti-Semitic, Islamphobic, homophobic, sexist or racist….,

With the exception of white, Christian, straight men, everybody it seems is easily offended and their human rights are infringed upon at a drop of a hat.

So much so, that within seconds of twitting it, I was defriended on Facebook by someone who though even thinking along those is offensive!

Some commented that this group (white Christian, straight men) runs the country, owns most of its businesses and therefore can handle whatever is thrown at them and don’t need defending or protecting.

I find that attitude in itself a problem and it is the reason political correctness is rife in our country today. It seems, in our quest to be fair to minorities, we overlooked and to some extend suppressed other justices. And unless equality and fairness are exercised across the board and without exception, we will always have a crisis of trust and understanding between the different groups.

I do hope, now that we are finally able to talk about immigration without being labelled racist, when needed, minorities are criticised without it being seen as anything but a healthy debate and difference of opinion.

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And finally,

Elated that it is no longer considered Right-wing to propose restrictions on immigration or to reform and cap welfare, it seems lefties are finally coming to their senses. However, can’t help but question. Are they really coming to their senses, or are they just preparing for the election?

Enjoy your weekend; I am off to Birmingham to help with a new and exciting project, will share more about it in the coming weeks.

It was quite an eventful week. From Rouhani and Obama not knowing what do with each other to Miliband telling us what he wants to do with this country.

Seems after almost a week, at the United Nations in New York, the Iranian and the US president finally managed a telephone conversation.

However, no one expected the two will do anything face to face that will keep tongues wagging for duration of their presidencies. Now that Iran has a moderate leader and this American administration has almost four years to do something about the Iran situation. I hope the phone chat was about more than niceties.

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Ed Miliband gave a vibrant speech on Tuesday. He did it without notes and it had humour, promises to fix the nation, and warnings to big companies. The speech was phase three of the ‘Miliband project’. First he introduced what he saw as bad businesses “predators” then promised “predistribution” and this was the final chapter, where he spelled out his business model and the consequences for those who won’t follow it. Plus he gave examples, energy cost freeze for almost 2 years and land to be confiscated from developers who don’t build on it.

He also announced socialism will prevail under his premiership and industries will be told how to conduct their trade.

Well, I guess if developers, business owners, and all those who don’t think socialism is good for prosperity and don’t want it to rule the day, come 2015 just make sure Labour stays where there are, in opposition.

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It is Conservative Party Conference week, the last in the conference season, I have a feeling it will truly be a case of keep the best for last.

Watch out for the leader’s speech this year – I it is going to be a fire cracker, I am very much looking forward to it.

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Before the silly season ended and the conference season properly got underway. It all kicked off. Midweek the LibDems finished their conference with a go and prepare for government closing speech from a very a defiant and triumphed kingmaker, Nick Clegg.

The only problem with his ‘vote Liberal Democrats because we are in a permanent hung parliament territory’ is it relies 100% on one scenario, a hung parliament. What if one party wins outright? He will be back fighting for third place with non-other than UKIP.

It was great to watch all that confidence but I am sure many, non Libs, were secretly charged up to give him and his yellow brigade a good kick up the proverbial come 2015 after UKIP whip them out in 2014.

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Poor UKIP, the poor things had only one day to set out their stall and show case their party. Prove to the rest of the country they are not a bunch of misogynist, racist fruit cakes, and what happens? Godfrey Bloom, the Bongo, Bongo man himself, at a fringe meeting calls women who don’t clean behind their fridges’ sluts. Then proceeds to physically attack, hitting over the head, Channel Four’s Michael Crick because he asked him why there are only white faces on UKIP’s main conference pamphlet, when the party claims it’s representative of the whole nation. All Crick did was ask why aren’t there any black faces? And for that he was called a racist and physically abused.

The conference is over and the nation is now ready for an earthquake caused by UKIP in next year’s EU elections.

Oh, we also know that Mr Bloom who for now is not a UKIP member, thinks women who don’t clean properly are sluts and anyone who questions him will get a beating.

Makes you wonder what happens to the women in his life when they don’t clean behind their fridges or talk back?

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Another person I feel sorry for, not really if I’m honest, is Damian McBride. He wrote a book, sort of an expose about his time in Number Ten and timed its release with the Labour Party conference only to be upstaged by 1) Bloom and UKIP kicking off and 2) Ed Miliband promising if elected to abolish the spare room subsidy. Now that Bloom had the whip withdrawn, all everyone is talking about is how Miliband and his clan will fund their gift to the voters.

Which brings me nicely to why people don’t trust politics and politicians, because they believe politicians will say and promise anything thing to get votes. And will equally use any excuse to get-out of delivering those promise. We saw it happen in the Tuition Fees, Boundary Changes, giving a Referendum on the EU……

Promises, promises is what politics is all about, some the voters get but most the politicians hope they will forget.

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Boring is defined as uninteresting as to cause mental weariness; it implies feelings of listlessness and discontent.

So when Newsnight’s Editor, Ian Katz, tweet described Rachel Reeves as “snoring boring” like most I laughed and thought it was silly funny. Like Ed Miliband, she sounds a little nasal and her speech style is a touch flat and monotone. I have an accent, at times some find it difficult to understand me and sometimes I mumble when I’m nervous. We all have something or another that either makes us unique and brilliant or different and irritating.

Ian Katz’s biggest crime that night was having an opinion and sharing it, albeit accidentally. Whether that opinion and sharing it was right or wrong depends on Katz, the BBC, their agreement and understanding with each other. Was what he said about Ms Reeves a little unkind? You bet it was. But since there are no precise ‘written in stone’ rules about kindness, one would say he is free to express his views and feelings as long as he is man enough to handle their consequences.

But the shocker in all of this is the Labour Party. The whole thing was a non-issue; that could have died there and then, to be forgotten forever in a few hours, if it wasn’t for them.

At the time of the tweet, @iankatz1000 had around 25,000 followers (many more follow him now). By Labour HQ ‘demanding’ an apology they made a mountain out of a molehill. They didn’t just keep the whole issue alive, they actually publicised it. Where, on the night only a little over 25,000 people knew about the tweet, after Labour finished flexing their muscles now the whole country knows.

Stupid Labour, that was neither cleave nor helpful!

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At the risk of sounding repetitive, I think Vladimir Putin has actually rescued Barack Obama and at the same time proved that the British public and their representatives have a healthy reading and understanding of the general mood nationally and internationally.

By being the first to say NO to bombing Syria, the British are the first to say YES to peaceful negotiations and non-combative disarmament as a solution to the Syrian civil war.

Well done Britain for leading the peace efforts form the front.

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On Thursday night, just as I snuggled in bed propped up with pillows, a cup of tea on one hand and the Blackberry at the ready for #bbcqt. My bedroom TV made a strange noise and the sound completely died. At first, as you do, I was irritated because my evening routine was interrupted.

I tried to use subtitles but it wasn’t the same, so I decided to just watch peoples’ expression and guess what they are saying.

Watching and reading facial expressions, it looked to me like, Justine Greening didn’t like or agree with anything Caroline Lucas said, and Colleen Graffy couldn’t believe anyone who talks that fast (Lucas) can possibly make any sense. On the other hand, Chuka Umunna looked clueless, David Aaronovitch looked bored and unimpressed with any of them and I can hear, yes hear even with the sound off, David Dimbleby stirring it all up and having a jolly good time doing it.

The moral of this story…. There is moral to this story. Except, I am off today shopping for a bedroom TV I can’t afford.

Have a great and brilliant weekend.