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Should The Tory’s Not Have Changed Their Name To ‘The New Tory Party’?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Trevor Abrahmsohn

It strikes me as odd that, at the moment, David Cameron enjoys a personal popularity rating far ahead of the Tory Party and Ed Milliband’s is far behind the Labour Party and yet both parties are level pegging in the polls.

The Tory Party has come a long way from its right of centre grass root origins (decades ago) as it has learnt to pay far more attention to welfare, the less privileged and be considered Conservative with a small ‘c’. Continue reading →

Poor Doors/Rich Doors: A Moral Conundrum

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Trevor Abrahmsohn

Councils are desperate to get more affordable homes built and they are looking to the private sector developers to include on-site affordable homes as part of their developments in order to do so. In the 50s, with the population of the UK being a fraction of what is it today, we were building almost three times the number of new homes than now. Continue reading →

Right-to-Buy or Wrong-to-Buy that is the Question

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Trevor Abrahmsohn

David Cameron has just announced that he is considering re-instituting Margaret Thatcher’s initiative of the early 80s which is to give council tenants of certain properties the right-to-buy their own home at a discount to market price. Continue reading →