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Well the results are in and I’ll be honest the final tally was disappointing: 228 for the parliamentary election (hoped for min 500) 387 for the district election (hoped for min 1,000) I am not going to go into post election analysis (although privately I am doing one) but I do want to say a big thank you to all of you who did support me. The result may not be what I would have wanted but I did change the debate in that both The...

Housing – the housing market is dysfunctional delivering neither the houses we need nor at prices we can afford. It represents far too great a share of our economy and the drive to create a house ownership democracy has resulted in over inflated prices. The government continues to subsidise the sector through subsidies that are not granted to other investment options, which in turn has further inflated prices. For example if you take...

Health – we need a holistic approach to health with a greater emphasis on prevention rather than treatment. We need to acknowledge that the demands for the NHS will continue to grow as more treatments are discovered and as the population ages.  Moreover it has to be acknowledge that the treatments themselves are likely to be expensive putting further demands on the NHS finances.  If we continue as we are then there will be a forever...