Year: 2015

So forty six of our MPs own property in London that they rent out at the same time as claiming expenses to stay in hotels when in the capital on parliamentary business. I’m not sure how I feel about this. If they could have bought property in Leeds, Liverpool or Lesmahagow as an investment and as part of their general…

I sat and listened to the Chancellor’s entire speech this afternoon. Then Ed Miliband’s response. How can two people make the workings of the same economy sound so completely different? George Osborne’s performance was pure theatre. A great scriptwriter produced phrases like ‘the road from austerity to prosperity’, ‘we choose jobs, we choose the whole nation’ and my personal favourite…