Author: pkl204

Last month Crawley Borough Council voted to condemn David Cameron for breaking his pre-election commitments on tax credits, something which will have a huge impact upon the finances of thousands…

A little over a year ago, Labour regained control of Crawley Borough Council following eight years’ of increasingly chaotic Conservative administration. By the time of the election key policies such…

Following the election, the Conservatives proposed various amendments to the Hunting Act which would make the ban on foxhunting impossible to administer. Last week they were forced to postpone that…

Today George Osborne unveils his second Budget of 2015. Quite why the Chancellor has felt the need to issue an ‘Emergency Budget’ when he only wrote the last a couple…

Governments often get accused of fudging statistics. Having studied statistics, one of my regular complaints at the County Council is over the administration’s attempts to run the organisation—and increasingly hold…

Within the next fortnight Sir Howard Davies is due to publish his report on airport capacity, putting forward his recommendation as to where the UK would gain the most benefit…