Clubs up and down the country continue to teeter on the brink of financial collapse.
Labour’s Dawn Butler was one of the few to battle for the rights of the individual over the state.
During this Budget run-up, many of those I met raised business rates as a killer, plus council tax, the apprenticeship levy, parking charges and corporation tax, too.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats will continue to beat us with the ‘sewage stick’ unless we seize the initiative and take our communities with us. That is exactly what I have done in Southend.