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Why does the Council want Wokingham to be run down?
My regular walkabouts in different parts of the Borough bring home the damage Council policies are doing to our environment and urban fabric.
Everywhere I go there is the clutter of temporary yellow diversion signs and red closure signs. The roads are pock marked with so many potholes and eroded surfaces...Read More »
The Bank of England lets its Magic Money tree wilt
Great news. The Bank of England has reviewed its money policy over lockdown and the period 2020 to 2022. It has concluded it worked well against a very difficult background. It thinks it can repeat its successful Quantitative easing operations in the future. Meanwhile it’s best to sell lots of...Read More »
Good Friday
I joined the Christians at the Catholic Church on Good Friday for hot cross buns and conversation. We followed the Cross to the Marketplace and Peach Place, where music and acting brought the story of the crucifixion to Wokingham. We then went to a short service at All Saints.
I would...Read More »
Thames Water. Paying for bigger sewers
The nationalised water industry had a bad record, putting sewage into rivers and the sea. It spent too little on expanding pipe capacity and on replacing old and damaged pipes, as the costs fell on taxpayers. Water lost out in many a public spending battle under Labour, Conservative and Coalition...Read More »
Nationalisation is a bad idea
There are several strong arguments against the nationalised model for providing commercial services like phones,water,electricity and gas as we used to suffer.
1. These services never had sufficient priority in public spending to access sufficient capital to modernise and expand.
2. As monopolies not facing daily competitive pressure they put up prices...Read More »