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As no reader of this paper can be unaware, our MP was amongst those from all the leading parties who voted for an EU referendum. Given the option, I would probably vote to renegotiate the conditions of our membership, and it is nice to see MPs willing to ‘stand on principle’ (if embarrassing for David
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Three years on from the crash and the world remains perilously close to the edge of a depression. Regardless of whether the solution lies in further cuts or a massive short-term growth in state expenditure, unless the economy improves it’s clear that everyone – government included – will have to learn to make do with
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At the last council meeting Labour and the Tories set out two different paths for the town. One path, the Labour path, maintains Crawley’s services using a small part of the millions the council has stored away for difficult times. The other path, the Tory path, proposed immediate cuts to the services local people depend
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Usually when someone claims they’ve ‘had the pleasure of’ something they actually mean the opposite, or they’re simply padding out their sentence. Yesterday I had the genuine pleasure of talking to a room of Year 10s on their ‘Democracy Day’. This might not sound like much fun, but in contrast to the pattern of meetings
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One of the government’s most annoying features is the ability to take a good idea and ruin it. Ideas members of the left have supported for years, like the wellbeing index, are doomed to failure by a lack of funding and an inconsistent approach. Worse still, they end up tainted by association with the Tories.
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The ‘Conference Season’ is now upon us and parties are busy planning, taking stock and engaging in the usual showmanship. No doubt the most long-term impact will be made by the election of the new Labour leader, kicking off Labour’s Conference and giving the country a new leader of the opposition – at the time
Peter Lamb for Crawley 