7/28/2019 News Bulletin from Conor Burns MP #109

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In this edition:

Conor Burns MPs DiaryPhoto news:Conor opens new Parvaluxfactory

Conor in Parliament:Conor questions PM on G8Photo news:St Aldhelms AcademyNavitus Bay Wind FarminterviewConor in the papers:We'll make Bournemouth aSilicon Beach, pledgebusinessesPhoto news:Digital Manifesto

Photo news:Winton CarnivalConor in the papers:Why did Leveson ignorehacking beyond press, askMPsPhoto news:St Peters SchoolAchievement AwardsConor in the papers:Get Here Leveson: MPsorder hacking judge to facegrillingPhoto news:JP MorganConor in the papers:Ramadan a ding dong:Daily broadcast of Muslimcall to prayer stunt couldinflame tensionConor in the papers:The public would find aneye watering 10,000 payincrease for MPs

unacceptableConor at the Reagan RanchHow to contactConor Burns MP

Issue 109 Thursday 11th July 2013

Since the past edition, Conor has:

Asked Prime Minister David Cameron about the recent G8

meeting at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.

Visited local business Parvalux to open their new factory.Been quoted in The Sun and The Independent regarding Lord

Levesons unwillingness to appear before the Culture, Media

and Sport Select Committee.

Signed the Digital Manifesto for Bournemouth, Poole, and

Christchurchat Bournemouth University.

Held a surgery in Bournemouth to help local people with their

problems.

Attended the St. Peters School achievement awards, where

he presented pupils with their records of achievement.

Visited local employerJ P Morgan for a question and answersession with their employees.

Visited the Winton Carnival.

Been quoted in The Sun about Channel 4s proposals to

broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan.

Celebrated with local residents after a successful campaign to

install a puffin crossing on Turbary Park Avenue.

Been quoted in The Bournemouth Echo about MPs pay.

Visited students at Talbot Heath School to talk about the

legacy ofBaroness Thatcher.

Written an article in The Spectatorarguing against an increase

in MPs pay.

Photo news:

Conor opens new Parvalux factory

Conor Burns MP cuts the ribbon to open Parvaluxsnew factory on the Fleets Industrial Estate with

Managing Director Nick Spetch.

Conor is shown some of the machinery at Parvaluxs newfactory.

Conor in Parliament:

Conor questions PM on G8

Click on the image above to watch Conors question to the PrimeMinister.

The full text of the exchange was as follows:Conor Burns (Bournemouth West, Conservative): May I echo thestrong words of the Leader of the Opposition, and thank my right hon.Friend for bringing the G8 to Northern Ireland, and through that,showing the world how far it has come from the dark and dangerousplace I remember from my childhood? Before the conference, thePrime Minister alluded in a newspaper interview to his frustration withthe diplomatic vagueness of communiqus. This one was a big stepforward, and he has a list of real and tangible declarations on tax andtransparency. What more will we do to get that excellent listreproduced in full in todays Belfast Telegraphto the British people?David Cameron (Prime Minister; Witney, Conservative): Icommend the Belfast Telegraph on the fact that it has not joined themass of the cynical and hard-bitten, and has actually said, Hold on,this is an important breakthrough on the issues that people really careabout. We must now hold all those countries to their commitment andensure that everybody delivers on the action plans for beneficialownership, so that we can see who owns what company. We mustensure that the international exchange of tax information can involve

every country in the world. In that way we can get fairer taxes andhelp the developing world at the same time. We need follow-up on allthese issues.

Photo news:

St Aldhelms Academy

Conor Burns MP touring the building site atSt. Aldhelms Academy.

Navitus Bay Wind Farm interview

Click on the image above to watch a package on the Navitus BayWind Farm, featuring an interview with Conor Burns MP.

Conor in the papers:

We'll make Bournemouth a Silicon Beach,

pledge businessesThe Bournemouth Echo

Wednesday 12th June 2013

An ambitious bid to style Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch as aSilicon Beach with a thriving creative and digital economy has beenoutlined.Leading businesses, entrepreneurs and MPs are all backing the bid togrow the local creative and digital sector in the hope the area caneventually rival Californias Silicon Valley or Berlin, which attracts

companies and talented workers from all over Europe.At a creative and digital economy summit held at BournemouthUniversitys Executive Business Centre on Friday, a host of differentbusinesses and organisations pledged to commit money or expertiseto the bid to boost Bournemouths reputation both in this country andabroad.The area is seen as a potential Silicon Beach because it boastsabove average business start-up and survival rates and it is one of theUKs liveliest digital media clusters, with Bournemouth University andthe Arts University College of Bournemouth both attracting talentedstudents. However, currently many talented students leave the area

after graduating.Tobias Ellwood, Bournemouth East MP, said: The creative and digitaleconomy accounts for eight per cent of our GDP already and thatfigure is growing by 14 per cent a year. This is the big growthbusiness, its the thing to be in.Half of the techies who worked on Avatar came from BournemouthUniversity but what do they do when they graduate? They do a runnerto Berlin and other places.

And Conor Burns, the MP for Bournemouth West, said: We have an

enormous opportunity here in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurchto bring a large amount of business to this conurbation.We have a very simple offering in this part of the world its afantastic place to live and work. If Berlin can persuade people to comeand do business there then Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurchcertainly can.

SOME OF THE MANIFESTO COMMITMENTS

Ashley Faull, of 2Kings, will commit 2million of asset lending to thecreative and digital sector locally.

Bournemouth and Poole College will launch an apprenticeshipscheme for this sector.Bournemouth University will commit around 40,000 to support arange of work to boost the sector locally. A key element of this will besupporting the working group established to take forward themanifesto vision.Bournemouth Borough Council will launch the Community FinanceInitiative which aims to assist small businesses and first-time homebuyers. It will also develop a cultural and digital industries hub at theformer BCCA building in Boscombe.

The Borough of Poole and Dorset County Council, with Arts UniversityBournemouth and Bournemouth University, will produce a feasibilitystudy of the old police station opposite Poole Civic Centre.

Photo news:

Digital Manifesto

Conor signing the Digital Manifesto alongsideTobias Ellwood MP and ProfessorJohn Vinney.

Photo news:

Winton Carnival

Conor Burns with Mayor Rod Cooper at the Winton Carnival.

Conor Burns with students from Bournemouth UniversityStudents Union at the Winton Carnival.

Conor in the papers:

Why did Leveson ignore hacking beyondpress, ask MPsNigel Morris, The Independent

Thursday 25th June 2013Lord Justice Leveson is to be tackled by MPs over his failure to follow

up a police report which revealed that hacking operations wereordered by law, telecoms and insurance companies.The judge who conducted the Government-commissionedinvestigation into press ethics has been called before a Commonsselect committee to face questions over his inquiry.Lord Justice Leveson received a report from the Serious OrganisedCrime Agency which said companies routinely hired criminals to hack,blag and steal private information from rivals.The agency spelt out that the illegal practices went far beyond

newspapers, but the judge did not act on its warning and did not evenrefer to its findings.The formal invitation by the Culture, Media and Sport committeecomes at a moment of stalemate over the future of press regulationfollowing the publication of the Leveson report in November.The main political parties have agreed a plan for an independentpress regulator underpinned by royal charter, while newspapers havepublished an alternative charter.The judge will be questioned over the impasse, as well as his failure toact on the disclosure that blue chip companies authorised hacking.

Conor Burns, a Tory committee member, said: "I would be more thansurprised if colleagues did not want to seek to understand what histhinking was."Mr Burns said they would want to know what he "did with these furtherallegations that hacking appeared to be far more widespread" and"what his rationale was for what he did or didn't do with them".The committee previously issued an informal request to the judge togive evidence which he turned down. He looks certain to accept thistime as witnesses who refuse to comply with a formal invitation can bethreatened with contempt of parliament.The MPs hope he will face their questions before the Commons risesfor its summer recess on July 18.

A spokeswoman for the judiciary said he had not yet received theinvitation, adding: "He will respond to the committee if and when hedoes."

Asked whether Lord Justice Leveson should appear before thecommittee to give evidence, David Cameron's official spokesman said:"That is a matter for him."

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, told MPs on Monday that sherecognised the "degree of concern" prompted by the new disclosuresabout hacking and said she also found them "worrying".

Photo news:

St Peters School Achievement Awards

Conor with students at the St Peters School AchievementAwards.

Conor in the papers:

Get Here Leveson: MPs order hacking

judge to face grilling

Kevin Schofield, The SunFriday 26th June 2013Lord Justice Leveson was yesterday ordered to appear before seniorMPs as a potential constitutional crisis looms.Members of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee sent the judge astrongly-worded letter.It said they want him to give evidence on his phone hacking inquiryand Press regulation recommendations.Last night committee chairman John Whittingdale said their patiencehad snapped. He said: We would be very interested to hear hisviews.Committee member Conor Burns added: Its disappointing it hasntbeen a more straightforward exercise to get him to appear before us.It is thought to be the first time such a senior judge was summoned togive evidence to MPs.The committee can compel him to attend if he refuses again leading to an unprecedented battle between Parliament and the

judiciary.

Lord Justice Leveson last night refused to say if he would agree toturn up. A spokesman claimed he had not received anycommunication from the committee.Meanwhile, police chiefs are to be hauled before the Home AffairsCommittee on Tuesday to explain what they knew of hacking by lawfirms and big business.The Serious Organised Crime Agency built a report on the scandal sixyears ago but no one was prosecuted.Lord Justice Leveson was also informed about it during his inquiry but made no mention of it in his report.

Photo news:

JP Morgan

Conor Burns talking to employees at local employer JP Morgan.

Conor in the papers:

Ramadan a ding dong: Daily broadcast ofMuslim call to prayer stunt could inflametensionJames Beal, Leigh Holmwood & Miranda Prynne, The Sun

Tuesday 2nd July 2013

Channel 4 yesterday said it will screen a Muslim call to prayer everyday during Ramadan because it is more relevant than the DiamondJubilee.Boss Ralph Lee claimed the fact that 2.8 million UK Muslims willcelebrate the holy month from next week put last years Royalcelebrations in the shade.He added: Nearly five per cent of the country will actively engage inRamadan.Can we say the same of other national events that received blanket

coverage on TV such as the Queens coronation anniversary?I want to set out to provoke people to think about Islam in ways thatarent associated with terrorism.But UKIP accused Channel 4 of a cynical PR stunt and said it riskedfurther inflaming tension between communities in the wake of theWoolwich killing of soldier Lee Rigby - allegedly linked to Islamicextremists.

A spokesman said: This is a priceless piece of attention seeking. Icannot believe that the majority of mainstream Muslims want to see

this. It will inflame community tension.Tory MP Conor Burns said: I find it extraordinary Channel 4 wouldpursue this politically-correct tokenism.What would happen if they were to do this type of thing during aChristian festival such as Lent?Channel 4 will screen a full three-minute chant by Hassen Rasool, amuezzin or prayer call leader, from the start of Ramadan nextTuesday. It will then break into its regular schedule to mark the firstprayer of each day at 3am.

On the first day Channel 4 will also air 20-second bursts of the chantat four other prayer times 1.11pm, 5.26pm, 9.20pm and 10.49pm.Radical preacher Anjem Choudary, accused of encouraging terrorism,said he welcomed any move to promote Islam.He added: Islam is the fastest growing ideology in this country bysome accounts Britain could be a Muslim country by 2015.

Abu Zakariyya, of the radical Islamic Emergency Defence group,added: We want to see Sharia law in the UK and only God knows ifthis could be a step towards it.

Conor in the papers:

The public would find an eye watering

10,000 pay increase for MPsunacceptableConor Burns MP, The Spectator

Wednesday 10th July 2013

It has often been said that there is no perfect time for an increase inMPs pay. If that is true then surely now would be the most imperfecttime. All MPs who are doing their job to any percentage of excellenceknow that our constituents are feeling very concerned for the future.

Any spare money they have is going into repairing domestic debt andyet with rising petrol prices, food costs and utility bills not that manyhave much spare money at all.So this week with the backdrop of Conservative tearing lumps out ofLabour on cash and influence and Labour responding by attacking theConservatives on funding from business we may see the independentbody responsible for setting MPs pay recommend a 10,000 payincrease. Leaving aside for a moment whether it is warranted whatexactly would this be saying to the public? Can we seriously on theone hand say that we need public sector pay restraint (the privatesector is largely self-frozen), that we must all make sacrifices to repairthe economy and reduce the deficit if at the same time we accept alarge increase to our basic pay?What is really starting to alarm me is the massive disconnect betweenthe arguments that are being played out here in Westminster and theworries of the public in the country.The tribal battles may be good for the morale of partisan participantsbut they are surely toxic for the reputation of politics and politicians.

Too many of the political class still do not seem to understand theherculean task that is still to be done to restore public confidence inpolitics in the aftermath of the expenses scandal. Yet the verbalequivalent of fist fights on party funding and outside earnings mustleave a public quietly focused on their own daily lives and challengesquietly perplexed if not bloody angry. We cannot ask or earn thepublics trust if we cannot speak up for the political process or attemptto attribute malign motives to our opponents.We will have to await the terms of the IPSA announcement on MPspay. Yet the leaks seem to be reinforced by comments of somefigures in IPSA. A 10,000 pay increase to be more than offset by achange to the pension arrangements. Indeed it would appear that

even if the whole pay increase were put into the pension the benefitwould still be less. So we are asked to accept a headline pay increasethat most members of the public would find eye watering and anoverall package that would be worse than now. One has to wonder ifthe errant genius or malice on the part of IPSA.I fear tomorrows announcement could reignite public anger and fuelfurther disengagement from politics. There is a debate to be had onhow MPs should be paid. It should be had when we are in bettereconomic times. If IPSA do not show sensitivity to public sentimentthen they will have proved themselves unworthy of the trustParliament has placed in them.

This is shaping up to be a pretty bad week for politics in Britain andthe people are the losers.

Conor at the Reagan Ranch

Conor with Governor George Allen at the Reagan Ranch inCalifornia.

Click on the image above to watch Conor Burns MPs speech tothe Young Americas Foundation conference at the Reagan

Ranch Centre in California earlier this year.

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