Invest in our Police.

Despite the gaff by Diane Abbott the principal of 10,000 new officers is a good one, unfortunately it’s in the Labour manifesto so it’s not going to happen. Since 2010 we have lost 20,000 police officers under the Conservative leadership, we are facing increases in...

I’m IN

Nomination papers have been submitted and accepted, I am now an official candidate for the General Election on June 8th. Why am I standing? I believe that our MP should be part of our community not watching from the side-lines through binoculars. Our MP should have a...

Metro Mayor

So we’ve finally have a Metro Mayor, Tim Bowles has won the £62000 a year job. The turnout was only 29.7% so even if he received half of the votes only 15% of our region voted for him. Just another example of the disconnect between the public and the people who...

Metro Mayor

Am I the only one struggling to understand any significant benefits of a Metro Major? Surely another level of bureaucracy and another unnecessary pay packet. (Unless of course any of the candidates are QUALIFIED in housing and transport planning?) I watched with...

Bank Holidays

Well done Jeremy Corbyn, 4 more Bank Holidays? More burden on businesses (also I’m not sure how that fits with the education policy as Parents are told that missing one school day is detrimental to our Childs education).

Election promises

And so it starts, Surely politicians on both sides should have learnt some lessons from the Brexit campaigns especially the £350m figure on the bus, if you mislead us it will come back to bite you.

Brexit’s not all positive

There have been some positive indicators since the decision to leave the EU, however we are now feeling the pinch as the devaluation of the pound impacts on rising food prices, with some commodities up more than 10% also steep rises in fuel and heating costs....