A Bank Holiday weekend over, it was back to the House this morning. Traffic was light and I was able to enter the Chamber at the tailend of Business Questions in order to listen to an update on the terrible situation in Aleppo, Syria. There are suspicions that the Russians are doing nothing as Assad's army regains control of the city in a most brutal way. More than 200 civilians, over 40 of them children, have been killed in the past two weeks. Overall it's estimated that 400,000 people have been killed in Syria, leaving 30 million others in need of aid. The figures are truly biblical. Efforts are being made to bring peace to the area, but it's under Russian influence and the West looks pretty powerless to intervene without causing a major escalation. Civil wars do end eventually, but not without leaving a stain, not least on the country where it occurs. Civil wars are always the most barbaric, as history proves. Tobias Ellwood, the minister, answered questions knowledgeably and intelligently. He's learnt alot during his term of office. Whle the Housing & Planning Bill went through the Chamber, I attended an 'out' meeting with MPs and Peers. The meeting was in confidence and the mood is optimistic. The very future of our country is worth fighting for and I cannot understand those, especially in my Party, who wish to sell us off to Brussels and the inevitable super-state, controlled from the centre. It's as if the Prime Minister and his followers have been placed under a spell, like the movie The Manchurian Candidate, as they continue to promote doom, gloom and a plague of rats if we dare leave and regain our democracy, sovereignty and freedom. The meeting over, I returned to my office and ploughed through a mass of correspondence, managing to write 30 letters to constituents. I am not a football fan, really, as rugger and cricket are my games, but I do take my hats off to Leicester City Football Club for becoming Premier League Champions. It's a fairytale come true. I just hope that the fairy-dust doesn't change the players as their remuneration packages no doubt become more generous. Money has ruined English football, with players tempted away from the game they love with extravagent lifestyles, afforded due to their crazy salaries. I congratulate Leicester City and their shrewd management team. It goes to show that if you take the time, pick your talent wisely and affordably, a team can achieve miracles without the need to bus in hugely expensive players from abroad.