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by Alison Whelan on 1 March, 2015
Labour’s plans to reduce school fees will merely benefit the better off graduates, not those working at more modest salaries. It has now been shown pretty comprehensively that this will be the effect of their plans. In fact, “Labour’s plan to cut tuition fees to £6,000 is a financially illiterate policy” according to Martin Lewis […]
Read more Leave a commentby Alison Whelan on 2 November, 2014
East Cambridgeshire District Council will approve, on Wednesday, the next stage in the North Ely Developments. Naturally, they have not provided the public with all the information. ECDC policy requires all new developments to include 30% affordable housing – not just social housing, but all types of housing that help those who cannot afford to […]
Read more Leave a commentby Alison Whelan on 17 September, 2014
LibDem policy calls for the construction of 300,000 houses each year for the next 10 years. Brilliant because that should solve the housing shortage. Make no mistake, we have a significant housing shortage. Perhaps we should ask why there is such a shortage, I mean 3 million more houses is an awful lot of houses […]
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