Cllr Tony Vickers
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4. Northcroft Ward
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I've been a Lib Dem party member since school in the 60s, when my father left the Army with thoughts of Parliament. I too 'entered politics' after a career with Military Survey, which brought me to the Newbury area in 1980.
It is the principle of social and economic justice combined with 'small government' and free markets operating for 'the small man' that attracted me to Liberalism. We offer a healthy 'green' alternative to the politics of greed and envy represented by Toryism and Socialism respectively. As David Steel said: "If Liberalism didn't exist, we would need to invent it."
I was brought up in rural Devonshire but having worked in downtown Hong Kong and outback Australia, my biggest interest is in the relationship between people and natural resources. I now work as a land policy researcher and lecturer, specialising in the study of property taxes as incentives for 'good behaviour' by landowners and governments. Planning, housing and transport are where I apply this interest on West Berks Council. But I'm interested in the whole business of government and democracy and wish more people - especially the young - played a part in it.
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