This is a letter to the Swindon Advertiser in response to MP Justin Tomlinson’s claim that unemployment in Swindon has…
“From right to buy to buy to let”
Greater London Assembly Member Tom Copley has produced a useful report on a neglected aspect of the impact of Thatcher’s…
The autumn statement coalition con – the £400 billion extra debt ‘success’ story
Download a PDF of this document here autumnstatement2013 As with every budgetary statement by George Osborne, the use of statistics…
The ‘Self-employment’ conundrum
Doing some research on earnings in Swindon I discovered on the HMRC website that for 2010/11 earnings for self-employed people…
A strange form of progress – the reality behind the coalition government housing propaganda
You can download a PDF of this here coalitionpropaganda The Oxford English Dictionary definition of propaganda is “information, especially of…
Swindon Council Housing Allocations: the case of the £75,000 a year straw man
Download a PDFof this here strawman “Do you think somebody on £75,000 a year should get a Council house?” The…
The madness of Chancellor George
“Six more years of austerity” trumpeted the Financial Times in reporting George Osborne’s promise to carry on squeezing welfare and…
“Help to Buy”: promoting unsustainable debt
Download a PDF of this here helptobuy The coalition government has brought forward ‘Help to Buy’ in an attempt to…
‘Fixed term’ tenancies: unintended consequences
‘Fixed term’ tenancies: unintended consequences Last Wednesday I was on BBC Radio with Brian Mattock, Deputy Leader of Swindon Council,…
Coalition government steps up its attack on ‘social housing’
According to ‘Inside Housing’, the Housing Minister has revealed that landlords taking part in the new ￡3.3 billion round of…
Martin Wicks 