Category Archives: Economics

A strange subject to write about for someone who sometimes struggles to add up. However this is economics as it applies to the social and cultural fabric of our lives together.

The Government must be prevented from ending their values

Posted on November 26, 2020 by ianchisnall

All MPs need to stand up and challenge the call by Rishi Sunak to end the promise set out in the Conservative manifesto less than a year ago under the title of Promote our Values to “proudly maintain our commitment … Continue reading →

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A No-Deal Brexit is rejected by MPs like Tim Loughton

Posted on November 21, 2020 by ianchisnall

On Tuesday, two days before our Government had its final deadline to strike a deal with the EU (which they failed to achieve) a number of MPs including three from Sussex took part in the second reading of the National … Continue reading →

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We need a Business Minister who is in touch with Businesses

Posted on November 20, 2020 by ianchisnall

Just over a week ago on Tuesday 10th November three Conservative MPs asked one of their Ministers a very simple question. Sadly his response was disappointing on several fronts. He is Alok Sharma and his role is head (Secretary of … Continue reading →

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Gillian how can we improve your apprenticeship understanding?

Posted on November 14, 2020 by ianchisnall

The number of responses that Gillian Keegan makes regarding apprenticeship questions is huge in the House of Commons. She regularly responds to similar questions from MPs representing all of the political parties in Parliament with similar answers. It may well … Continue reading →

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Will Vicky Ford reconsider her EU words from 10 months ago?

Posted on November 4, 2020 by ianchisnall

Amongst the other issues that occurred yesterday, there was news that our Government has broken the deadline to respond to the EU over its new legislation to break International Laws. This failure by our Government made me remember some words … Continue reading →

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A debate to ban the sale of Fireworks for the public

Posted on October 31, 2020 by ianchisnall

On occasions, the timing of Parliamentary debates and written responses by the Government seem to be rather weird. Clearly the availability of debates regarding petitions only restarted a couple of weeks ago and so there are a significant number of … Continue reading →

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Time is running out for businesses to prepare

Posted on October 22, 2020 by ianchisnall

It is clearly important for people involved in businesses to try to understand what is about to happen as we leave the EU at Midnight on the 31st December 2020. Clearly there are some challenges. The news report shown here … Continue reading →

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Sussex needs linking up for COVID and our economy

Posted on October 19, 2020 by ianchisnall

There currently seems to be several widely adopted arguments which could be applied to help form some concept of a regional connection across the whole of Sussex by Councils, MPs and other groups of agencies such as businesses and the … Continue reading →

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Skill Training must become a higher priority for the government

Posted on October 18, 2020 by ianchisnall

Tomorrow is the start of Colleges Week and a survey carried out by the Association of Colleges which was published here on Friday shows that 71% of the Small and Medium Size Companies believe colleges are important to the businesses … Continue reading →

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Is our Government serious about its COP26 and global role?

Posted on October 1, 2020 by ianchisnall

In the last few hours on Tuesday the Government managed to get their Internal Market Bill passed for its third reading and so now it has moved over into the House of Lords and in due course we will discover … Continue reading →

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