Our local, current MP has used one of his final columns of this Parliament to extol the virtues of George Osborne saying he knows him ” pretty well”.

His ONE mention of the South West (not East Devon) is to say that Help to Buy ISAs could help 95,000 people to buy their first homes. (Surely not all of them in East Devon but you can’t be sure of anything about “economic growth” in East Devon these days!).

IT WILL NOT HELP IF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE DON’T HAVE JOBS AND CAN’T GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

Whilst general unemployment has dropped (thanks in large part to tax credits and part-time zero hours contracts favouring employers rather than employees) youth unemployment stubbornly refused to fall.

Still, Cranbrook, phases 1-100 will benefit local developers.