Economy

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...

The following is an extract from a Daily Telegraph article condemning Labour’s economic record under Blair/Brown: “Not helping Labour’s argument is the string of inept projects which cost the taxpayer billions and ended up on the scrap heap. IT projects were a particular scourge of the New Labour years. In 1998, Labour announced a programme to reform the way the NHS used IT. Predicted to cost £6.2 billion, it ended up...