Get Wokingham Article: Failed MP hopeful Mark Ashwell rejoins Conservatives

I have rejoined the Wokingham Conservatives and I thank them for their pragmatic approach to my membership.

My general election campaign message of 2010 is as relevant now as it was then.
I came out of that campaign with the mission of [...]

During these troubled economic times it is important to nurture Social Cohesion. The question for our country right now is how do we allocate the pain? How to we distribute the medicine in the most equitable and effective way?

Maybe we need to look to Japan for our inspiration. Japan has had a long period of stagnation but [...]

We are potentially due a long period of flat growth in a market of Balance Sheet Depression. This is where bigger and more established businesses minimise debt instead of maximizing profit. In these circumstances the turn around will come from small & medium enterprises being provided with the environment to go and grow again. Also by encouraging the new start-ups who will [...]

The West has quite simply lived beyond its means. It has imported its lifestyle from China and other emerging markets and borrowed money to sustain the spending. Individuals have been forced to adjust due to the banking crises. Instead governments have taken up the task of spending and borrowing way beyond the tax capacity [...]

The Markets are neither bad or good.
Saints buy from sinners
The moral lend to the immoral
Nasty people make things for nice people
Christians trade with atheists

Good people copy bad people!
How should we regulate The Markets?

A single currency needs a single country to love it.
A single currency is like taking out a bank account with the neighbours – you inevitably fall out over the overdraft.
A single currency starts as an act of friendship with the neighbours and ends in acrimony like a bad marriage.
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Image courtesy of wokinghamregeneration.co.uk

Wokingham’s day time economy/footfall has suffered a decline over many years. The recession and aftermath has just exasperated the need to regenerate the town centre.
Wokingham business, community and local government have a plan to deliver that regeneration 2012-2016.
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