Monthly Archives: April 2010

Wow! What a response to my questions on housing. As a good number of you say, it is a crucial issue for many. There are two nations, the haves and the have nots, when it comes to home ownership. As many of you also rightly say, homes are very expensive for people starting out on [...]

They say charity starts at home. In that case public spending cuts should start abroad. The Uk does not just have a problem of overspending in the public sector. It also has a big balance of payments problem. The UK needs to buy too much expensive overseas currency to pay its bills abroad. This is [...]

Mr Farage appeared on “Have I got news for you”. His main political message was that Vince Cable is the best of the three “Chancellors”. He was fulsome in his praise of Mr Cable, and gave him strong support against his main rivals. This just goes to show that UKIP are not dedicated to combatting [...]

Today is Easter Sunday. What does Easter mean to modern Britain? As I attended services on Good Friday, one of the biggest days of the Christian year, I noticed the attendances were not high given the size of the population. Regular practising Christians I have talked to recently feel they are now a minority group. [...]

This morning Labour put Geoffrey Robinson on to run up the white flag with the business leaders who have backed the Conservatives on National Insurance. That looked like wise and sensible politics, and he did it professionally. He told us the= business leaders were great guys who had a point of view, and that in [...]

On Thursday I spent time talking to employees in a local super market. They were full of commonsense. Together they were of one voice that too many people are on the dole and needing benefits. They feel strongly that the world is too tough on those who try hard and turn up for work, and [...]

The UK is over taxed. The deficit has not been brought on by taxing too little, but by spending and wasting too much. Labour’s offence is not for setting tax rates that are too low, but wasting so much money on self promotion, poor purchasing, too much bureaucracy, political correctness – and above all on [...]

Labour are wrong, wrong, wrong to oppose the Conservative policy of cutting National Insurance taxes. They put substantial extra tax into their budget deficit cutting plans for the next four years which will only materialise on the scale imagined if they cut tax rates on company and individual incomes. As I have often argued on [...]