As a country, our GDP per capita has been virtually static for a number of years now. Overall, GDP has increased slowly – thanks to the immigration-lead population growth, rather than an improvement in productivity. We hear the cry from politicians of all colours that we need to “grow the economy”, which is the most […]
(Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor / Treasury, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3>, via Wikimedia Commons) You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the week by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down…. (Abraham Lincoln) Money was created as a
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The humiliation of the Conservative Party at the recent general election provides the opportunity for a fundamental refresh of what the party stands for, and the purpose of its existence. The most important element of any political party is its membership. This is the soul of the party; holders of the core values from which
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As you may remember when I discovered that our beloved Conservative Government had decided to make it a criminal offence, punishable by a £5000 fine or six months in prison, to own one or more unregistered hens, I said that I could not support the Conservative party in the forthcoming election. At one point I determined
(Photograph: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Labour’s plan for private schools is an iniquitous and vindictive proposal; a thinly veiled start to the abolition of the independent sector. It is also an attack on freedom of choice in Education. It will be the first time ever that education
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Following on from his initial manifesto post, Alastair MacMillan moves on to defence. Target: Defence forces that are well-balanced to meet the threats that may manifest themselves against us and our allies. To prevent war, we must be seen by our adversaries to be strong in depth. Until the advent of flight and submarines, battles were
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Following on from his initial manifesto post, Alastair MacMillan moves on to energy policy: At present, UK energy policy hangs round the Climate Change and Net Zero Acts that are predicated on one view of why the climate has shown signs of warming over the last forty years. There are other very valid scientific views that are
Following the decision by the government to make it illegal to own one or more hens without registering with DEFRA, I will definitely not be voting Conservative at the next election. The only thing that would change that decision is cancellation of this completely ridiculous piece of legislation. As part of my push back against this
Like many of you, I am a sufferer of Conservative estrangement syndrome. However, it was only yesterday that I ruled out voting for them at the next election. About a year ago my attention was drawn to a consultation being conducted by DEFRA (Does everything effing rong again), into the registration of small flocks of
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I run an engineering business that I started nearly 40 years ago. Don’t believe the hype that running one’s own business gives you independence and freedom. Instead. you create a millstone, but equally it is a drug and your baby, so one keeps at it from one day to the next. The drug part is my love
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