Monthly Archives: May 2008

Today, David Cameron will speak out against wasteful government. He will tell us just how people cannot take any more tax, and how desperate the country is for some relief from all this taxing and wasting we have become so used to under this government. He has encouraged me in the work I have been [...]

Under Labour, the UK has been living beyond its means. The government sector has been especially profligate, spending ever-larger sums on quangos, spin doctors, regulations, banking support, railway support, welfare, bureaucrats and politicians. Gordon Brown has racked up huge debts for the taxpayer during the good times, over the “NICE” years, when a little more [...]

Yesterday, we saw how the Bank of England has been far from independent over the last 11 years, as it has been slimmed down and bossed around by the present government. The main blame for the current high level of inflation rests with the government. The Bank’s failure to control price increases as advertised is [...]

If the last few years were NICE, according to the Bank, surely that makes the acronym for today SO MAD – Slowing Output Massively Accelerating Deficit.

This week, the Bank of England took leave of its senses again. It generated blood-curdling headlines that the state of inflation and the economy was now such that interest rates could not be lowered again, this year or next. Newspapers wrote that we are to look forward to letters from the Governor to the Chancellor [...]

The Prime Minister can today reflect on the first anniversary of his victory in the Labour leadership election. It would be a good time for him to dwell on what has gone wrong. It would be an even better time for him to be positive about how his second year as Leader could be so [...]

Ofwat have at last got there – they want competition in water supply to tackle the shortages, the high prices and the single-quality offer we all face. I am delighted. Let’s hope the government will now get on with it. Like all monopolies, the water industry fails to innovate, fails to make enough supply available, [...]

On the 26th January 2007 I posted a Reading Evening Post article about the need to improve forces’ housing. I took the proposals to the Defence Secretary, who expressed enthusiasm for some such scheme. I am reissuing it today, because nothing seems to have happened, and it is time to take it up again. Our [...]

Yesterday the Opposition highlighted the great Vehicle Excise Duty take away. Brought to you by the same people who doubled the income tax rate on the lower paid, they have thought up another unpopular wheeze to lift an extra £2.5 billion from motorists as if we were not paying enough already. Deep in the small [...]