7th May 2015
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Monday, 13 April 2015
Hustings
Good hustings last week with the small business sector.
I think they liked our ideas of cutting business rates for city centers, giving a threshold for corporation tax to help small business. Having a training period of 1 year when the minimum wage didn't apply and other things. I also talked about a turnover tax which was received quite well. We were shown a lot of respect by the other candidates. If only voting was done on performance at hustings!
Sadly now we have no more planned but who knows?
I think they liked our ideas of cutting business rates for city centers, giving a threshold for corporation tax to help small business. Having a training period of 1 year when the minimum wage didn't apply and other things. I also talked about a turnover tax which was received quite well. We were shown a lot of respect by the other candidates. If only voting was done on performance at hustings!
Sadly now we have no more planned but who knows?
Saturday, 14 March 2015
Report of Hustings
The first hustings of the campign was undertaken recently at Belvedere Community centre. Sid Cordle was there representing CPA and got a lot of support from young people present.
Among points of interest. All the candidates were in favour of a new river crossing across the Thames in the Thamesmead area with the exception of the Greens.
The UKIP candidate made clear his opposition to all things European and said we were better off alone. This is economic nonsense. Even a school student who has studied economics knows that there are enormous economic benefits in trade if different countries concentrate on what they do best. We are opposed to the EU in its current form but understand we need to be part of a Gobal trading empire. We don't believe we need the EU to trade effectively.
The Conservative candidate said how proud she was that pensions are going up with inflation. She didn't appear to know that actually inflation is now 0.5% and pensions go up by the greater of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%. This year they've gone up by 2.5%, apparently 2% more than she thinks they have. Pensions have never gone up by less than inflation since they were introduced. It was a previous a Conservative Government that broke the link with average earnings which has now been restored.
The Green party candidate said the party wants all industry nationalised but had no idea where the money was coming from both to do it and then to run the industries afterwards (which traditionally have made massive losses when nationalized). Under challenge from the CPA she was unable to justify Green policy to make Islamic State legal not realising it would make it legal to sell them arms and legal for them to run introductory training camps in the UK (obviously without weapons).
The Labour MP spoke very well with good knowledge of what she was talking about.
All the other parties talked about housing and the NHS as their major priorities. Only the CPA talked about marriage, the sanctity of life, support for persecuted minorities, especially Christians and care for the poor. Not that we don't also care about housing and the NHS but they are not our first priorities.
Overall it would appear we have something very distinctive to offer and that the other parties with the exception of Labour don't really know what they're talking about. Lib Dems were not present.
Among points of interest. All the candidates were in favour of a new river crossing across the Thames in the Thamesmead area with the exception of the Greens.
The UKIP candidate made clear his opposition to all things European and said we were better off alone. This is economic nonsense. Even a school student who has studied economics knows that there are enormous economic benefits in trade if different countries concentrate on what they do best. We are opposed to the EU in its current form but understand we need to be part of a Gobal trading empire. We don't believe we need the EU to trade effectively.
The Conservative candidate said how proud she was that pensions are going up with inflation. She didn't appear to know that actually inflation is now 0.5% and pensions go up by the greater of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%. This year they've gone up by 2.5%, apparently 2% more than she thinks they have. Pensions have never gone up by less than inflation since they were introduced. It was a previous a Conservative Government that broke the link with average earnings which has now been restored.
The Green party candidate said the party wants all industry nationalised but had no idea where the money was coming from both to do it and then to run the industries afterwards (which traditionally have made massive losses when nationalized). Under challenge from the CPA she was unable to justify Green policy to make Islamic State legal not realising it would make it legal to sell them arms and legal for them to run introductory training camps in the UK (obviously without weapons).
The Labour MP spoke very well with good knowledge of what she was talking about.
All the other parties talked about housing and the NHS as their major priorities. Only the CPA talked about marriage, the sanctity of life, support for persecuted minorities, especially Christians and care for the poor. Not that we don't also care about housing and the NHS but they are not our first priorities.
Overall it would appear we have something very distinctive to offer and that the other parties with the exception of Labour don't really know what they're talking about. Lib Dems were not present.
Candidate interview
Sid Cordle prospective candidate in Erith and Thamesmead did an interview
last week with a group representing young people. Read what he had to say:-
CPA at hustings - GE2015
A hustings has been arranged at Trinity Church of England School on:
Erith Road,
Belvedere, Kent DA17 6HT from 1.30pm to 3.45pm I2t's a youth candidates debate.
Sid Cordle will be there with the other candidates speaking for the Christian People's Alliance
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Welcome
This is the new local page for Sid Cordle and his team, seeking election in the 2015 General Election
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