Welcome to my personal website, this was my main campaign website when I stood in local and national elections and the place where I blog on political issues. I did start up a political party called Engage but sadly that never got the support needed for a political party and I dissolved it in June 2020, still, it was certainly a good learning experience and I had the pleasure of working with some great people over the three years it was running. In regards to politics, I think the most important thing I did learn after over a decade trying to make a difference is the simple fact that the vast majority are simply not interested in politics, yes they will all moan about the different thing but when push comes to shove at the ballot boxes most of them will still vote Labour or Conservative, ensuring we stay in a two-party state and as long as that is the norm, nothing will ever change in this country of ours. The only way I can think of to change that way of thinking is to promote independents in any coming elections as I believe that is the fastest way that things might change in British politics for the better… It has to be better to have representation that is only responsible to those that elect them and not any given party.

I do think my days of knocking on doors canvassing for votes are now over and I am more than happy to watch from the sidelines now, however, I don’t think being a silent supporter would ever be my thing so I will undoubtedly keep on shouting from the sidelines and hopefully I will see some younger players on the political pitch kicking the ball… We can but live in hope I guess. 

I was truly gutted when my hope town of Poole in Dorset got amalgamated with Bournemouth and Christchurch and I will always say that is the worst thing that could have ever happened to Poole, I  did campaign hard to stop it but alas was unsuccessful and now we have Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council (BCP) though I doubt that name will remain very long, it won’t be long before they sell off all the assets of Christchurch and Poole and then go for city status for Bournemouth – The City by the Sea. I personally believe that was the plan all along and I see they are about to sell off the Christchurch council offices, so I expect the same will happen in Poole… and sadly there will be no pleasure in saying “I told you so”… I will be keeping a close eye on what is happening though 😉

On November 18th 2020 I started a new apolitical movement called Cromwellians find out more by clicking the button below…