Prospective Parliamentary Candidate - Cliff Jenkins

 

Cliff lives in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex with his wife Angela. He likes visiting family and friends, both locally and around Europe, and likes good food, specifically gluten-free. He enjoys walking, he's just walked the South Down Way from Winchester to Estbourne, and is planning to participate in his first half-marathon, (notice only ‘planning’.) He runs two allotments, providing fresh vegetables for three families, including his son and daughter, with wife and partner respectively. He is also re-learning Spanish and brushing-up his maths.

 

Born in Birmingham, Cliff’s parents were working class and drove themselves to give their children a good education. Cliff won a place at King Edwards School in Birmingham. Originally brought up within the ‘fire and brimstone’ of the Methodist Church -  indeed eventually as a lay preacher - he joined in scouting, became a Queen Scout and was a scout leader for a few years.  He loves music from Mamma Mia!! to Scott Joplin, via Queen and Bruch; and dancing;

 

In business Cliff originally qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He went on to be a management consultant with KPMG, mainly in the banking sector. He saw the future as being in IT and moved into using IT to solve business problems. The three phases of career each lasted about ten to fifteen years. Like so many people he’s survived the ups and the downs of life and is now looking forward to his fourth role in society as a Member of Parliament.

 

His business life encompassed putting an end to several frauds; resurrecting a Midlands engineering company; enhancing a brilliant little party-plan organisation; sorting out some problems for various banks; helping to create a merchant bank based in Saudi Arabia; dramatically improving the viability of an engineering company in Scotland; lecturing on the likely impact of new tax legislation; and improving a modern contracting company; the normal sort of activity for a management consultant.

 

Over the last two years he has become more and more concerned about how badly the UK is being run, about the world his children and their children will inherit and is determined to do something about it.

 

Cliff has tried to assist in various roles in the community, though always frustrated by government imperatives or government initiatives, whether as a school governor, in the Southlanders community group, in Economic Partnerships or in helping small businesses.

 

His concern about the latest UK economic miracle started when it became an ongoing miracle, ‘no more boom and bust’, or five or more years ago, when he first heard the word ‘derivatives’, even before his pension pot was consumed by the gorging of Gordon Brown. Cliff has been running his Blog “Future Britain” since he started with ‘This Great World’ on the 2nd May 2006. (http://cliffblog.eadv.co.uk/blog/ThisGreatWorld/_archives/2006/5/2/1927267.html)

 

Cliff is proposing his own vision for a successful and fast route to solving our current economic situation. He looks forward to helping to find the six hundred ‘Free’ MPs necessary for our own ‘British Revolution’ and to voting in Parliament.