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.

We need our Big Lottery Refund!

Posted on August 7, 2017 by ianchisnall

Last week, Crawley MP Henry Smith used his website to encourage his constituents to apply for the Postcode Lottery’s Dream Fund. This opportunity exists across the UK. The fund consists of £3M of which one allocation will be £1M and … Continue reading →

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Polls are often wrong

Posted on August 3, 2017 by ianchisnall

The latest poll from YouGov suggests that many of the people who voted to Leave the EU are not concerned if our departure has a damaging impact on the UK economy. I hope that the poll is wrong, and I … Continue reading →

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We need a series of studies on our departure from the EU

Posted on July 31, 2017 by ianchisnall

The decision by Amber Rudd last Thursday to commission a study on the economic impact of immigration from the EU seems excessively late to the party bearing in mind that the Hastings MP has spent more than a year as … Continue reading →

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What is so special about today?

Posted on July 28, 2017 by ianchisnall

An organisation that I have just joined as part of the company I work for is called the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Today they are holding a series of events around the UK. Entitled “Engineering Open House Day” the … Continue reading →

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How did #wato get it so wrong Martha?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by ianchisnall

The news from yesterday that the coalition Government got it wrong when they introduced huge employment tribunal fees to try to raise funds for the Government and also reduce the number of vexatious cases for employers is not a shock. … Continue reading →

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An effective penny pincher?

Posted on July 25, 2017 by ianchisnall

A red topped newspaper which is quite rightly banned from my home city of Liverpool and a number of football stadia across the UK printed a story on Saturday on the penny pinching behaviour of the Chairman of Network Rail. … Continue reading →

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We must support all rural communities

Posted on July 24, 2017 by ianchisnall

Although I have visited Northern Ireland on several occasions and know some folk who live there, I don’t have a very good handle on how the recent alliance between the Conservative Party and the DUP will have impacted the politics … Continue reading →

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Our need for engineers

Posted on July 23, 2017 by ianchisnall

I am proud after many years of working for a charity and a financial services company that over the last 8 years I have been part of an engineering based company. The role began as a part time one for … Continue reading →

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Keep campaigners away from Grayling

Posted on July 21, 2017 by ianchisnall

A recent exchange took place in the House of Commons focused on the need to improve the rail service that currently begins in Uckfield and ends in the London area. On 13th July Nusrat Ghani, MP for Wealden asked Chris … Continue reading →

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A place of disconnected concepts

Posted on July 16, 2017 by ianchisnall

It appears that in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the debate around public sector pay which appears to have centered around the words and views of Philip Hammond is some distance away from the thinking behind the Queens speech which … Continue reading →

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