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The importance of being Mr Huhne

November 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

I have only just got round to reading the speech on the coalition government’s Green Deal delivered yesterday by Energy and Climate Change Secretary of State Chris Huhne. It is one of the most substantial speeches delivered by a Liberal Democrat for many years, I am hugely encouraged and you can read the full text [...]

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”

November 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog

I am prompted to quote from John F Kennedy’s famous inaugural speech thanks to the Newspeak of today’s government announcement about student tuition fees. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills website talks about the “graduate contribution”.
The graduate contribution?
Of course I hope that graduates will continue to contribute to our country and the world in [...]

Tax change you can believe in

April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

This morning, at their first press conference of the 2010 General Election campaign, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable announced the fair tax policy at the heart of our General Election manifesto (which will be launched soon).
Under Labour, the tax system is complex, unwieldy and, most of all, unfair. This has to change. The [...]

Time for some healthy realism on public sector pay and employment

December 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

Of course I am going to write that I like Vince Cable’s just announced proposals for capping public sector pay rises to £400 per person. Since public sector pay makes up a quarter of all public spending, it is unrealistic to assume that it can remain unscathed. Many people in the private sector have experienced [...]

Should tax be about fairness? Of course it should

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

An enlightening glimpse of the three main parties and tax over the weekend and yesterday.
First, Tory A-lister and high profile parliamentary candidate Zac Goldsmith was revealed to have used non-domicile status to protect some of his considerable wealth. Clearly one law for the rich, one for the rest of us. About the only firm Tory [...]

Honor backs Equitable pensioners

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

Yesterday’s demonstration by Equitable Life pensioners outside Parliament represented another stage in the long march to justice for all the pensioners let down by the Government’s failure to regulate and even worse its failure to come clean when it became all too clear to those in the know that Equitable Life had a problem.
The Gurkhas’ [...]

MPs should hang their heads in shame over Equitable Life

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

Earlier this week I joined a lobby of Equitable Life policyholders from Hertfordshire and Middlesex to see local MPs including Anne Main. The lobby was organised by the Equitable Members Action Group (EMAG) and the picture shows some of us standing in the shadow of Big Ben before going inside.
Yesterday saw the first full debate [...]

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Vince Cable Master Class

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

LibDem Treasury spokesman dropped by the University of Hertfordshire at the end of last week and gave a master class in political economy.
He was there at the invitation of Welwyn Hatfield Chamber of Commerce and Welwyn Hatfield LibDems, whose parliamentary candidate Paul Zukowskyj teaches at the university.
In effect what we heard was a brief summary [...]

Innocent victims of the train wreck

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I spoke to the Year 13’s at Townsend School on budget day. I asked them how it felt to be innocent victims of a train wreck, when they will be picking up the pieces from the current shambles of our economy for the rest of their working lives (which could last up to fifty [...]

Is the sky falling in?

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

The economic news is unremittingly bad. The sky is falling in and all the solutions being put forward by the Government feel like trying to pushing a broken down car with a rope…
The latest suggestions of guarantees of up to £20bn of loans to small businesses potentially involves very large taxpayer liabilities and is [...]

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