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The problem with the whole tax credit system is that it is, and always was, an insidious ploy by the Labour Party to ensnare yet more people – people who are working for a living – in the perfidious web of the Welfare State and increase the ranks of the ‘client class’ that makes up…

Touchingly, some of you have chided me for not updating my blog for a while. Apologies, I didn’t realise I had such a loyal readership! Some of you who have received election leaflets from John Baron will have seen my name on the bottom of them and that is because I am acting as Mr…

Last week’s election interviews were a clear illustration of the choice facing Britain at the next election: competence and strong leadership from Prime Minister David Cameron or chaos and weakness from Ed Miliband.   The Prime Minister put in a strong performance.   He highlighted that 1.9 million more people are in work than in…

Happy New Year, readers (seems odd to be saying that in February but I realise this is my first blog since December, so hope you all had a good Christmas).   As you all know, it is not generally my practice to write up Planning Committee meetings unless they are of interest to Billericay East…

Changes to the Electoral Register In case you are not aware, the way the Electoral Register is compiled has changed to a system called Individual Electoral Registration (IER). Whereas one person (the ‘head of the household’) used to be able to register everyone who lived at a particular address, as of 10th June each individual…