Opinions

“Dear chief secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! Liam Byrne …… Read More

A few themes have developed over the past few days and I have listened to people from all walks of life in various parts of the Country, to the point that I feel compelled to write to you and ask for your views on a few issues. If you become Prime Minister, how do you answer these points?

I am penning these verbal jewels (I appreciate that is a matter of opinion!) from my balcony on board the Seabourn Odyssey Read More

As you turn these pages, think, did you see a bright yellow daffodil today? Have you seen a lamb in the fields, croci (typing “crocuses” is just fraught with problems!) or buds on the trees?
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Well here we are, deep in the middle of “Campaign-fest”!
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I fear that educationalists, environmentalists, trades unionists, politicians and (dare I say it!?) some journalists just don’t get it; they think it grows on trees! The penny hasn’t dropped: without the money that business makes, without the profits that flow from businesses, large and small, there would be no tax, no employment, no public sector.

Dark when you get up; dark when you leave work; wet; cold; the joy of Christmas but a distant memory…..oh! Except the bill for the credit card that paid for it all that now needs sorting. And Spring, new-born lambs, daffodils, light mornings and the clocks going forward, is still someway off. Umph! And again I say Umph!
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