More than enough to cover current losses in the NHS.
So, basically, we taxpayers subsidise the supermarkets, they reap bigger profits, their sharp accountants make sure there are lots of overseas accounts and minimise the taxes they pat.
Nice one – for the supermarkets!
In today’s Observer leader, Tim Montgomerie, co-founder of lobby group The Good Right is quoted as saying his party is “going through an identity crisis with its association with individualism, cronyism and big business and “survival of the fittest”.
American philosopher Michael Sandel is also quoted: “Who does the economy serve?” he asks and “welcomes more discussion on morality in politics and public discourse”.
Well, there is plenty of talk in East Devon about Big Business, cronyism and morality in public life!
An article in ine of today’s newspapers is about health and the figures for Body Mass Index and cholesterol ( Sunday Times). It makes the point that figures for “healthy” BMI and cholesterol were picked arbitrarily and based on little firm evidence and may be quite wrong.
Rather like EDDC’s old AND new annual housing figures.
Several readers have made the point that they can find no evidence at all for the figure of 950 houses a year for the next 18 years in any of the latest Local Plan documents. All sorts of figures are mentioned for all sorts of scenarios but 950 does not seem to be one of them.
Perhaps this is why Mr Thickett, the Inspector who is usually so quick at responding to EDDC, has yet to reply to EDDC’s submission of the new draft which they sent to him on 18 March 2015 (with Community Infrastructure Levy rate information sent on 30 March). He usually replies witin a few days.
This new draft must be giving him much food for thought.
Surely not yet another enormous blunder that will allow a developer free-for-all to continue well beyond the life of this (currently) Conservative-controlled district council with its “economic growth” at all costs mantra?
EDA candidate videos now going on Youtube.
Just search for East Devon Alliance and there they are!
They will also be linked from the candidate pages on their website.
eastdevonalliance.org.uk
Twenty-first century technology for twenty-first century candidates!
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