Archive for October, 2007

Be afraid, be very afraid

Can this Government not stop lying?

This is becoming absurd. This morning the Home Secretary told us that: “the majority of new jobs had gone to British workers” Now, this afternoon we are told that: half of new jobs had gone to migrants This puts a very different slant on all the claims this Government makes about creating jobs, now that [...]

Population control is a key issue

It seems that David Cameron has now decided the time is right for him to raise the subject of immigration, and more broadly the issue of population control – of which immigration is part. He said immigration had to be considered alongside other pressures including people living longer, and more people choosing to live alone. [...]

Are the people of Yeovil the “lunatic fringe”?

That appears to be what their local Lib Dem MP is saying. He recently claimed that those who wanted a vote on the EU referendum were the “lunatic fringe” Well, I have spoken to a good number of people in Yeovil about this issue and the vast majority of them want a referendum and will [...]

Brown’s education stealth tax

This is a very interesting and absurd policy by the Government. Having paid my taxes, so he can fund schools, he now wants to take my money back from the schools. For some years (5 by my reckoning) the Government has been upset by the amounts that schools hold in the bank accounts as reserves [...]

Honour your promise

Good video from Playpolitical.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSfwX5yRVG8]

Blair back in charge

Technorati Tags: Blair, Brown, EU treaty, EU president The quote below is from the Mail on Sunday – the link takes you to the story about the book about the the three B’s – Blair, Brown, Balls – and their tortuous relationship. The irony is that whilst Brown and Milliband were smuggly signing away our [...]

English rugby – defeated but proud

Technorati Tags: Rugby world cup, Gordon Brown As ever with these things the big game did not turn in to the emotional cliff hanger that some would have expected. Although it was the talk of the kids at rugby this morning, where my son plays. However, despite the sadness of the loss the biggest image [...]

Should the abortion laws be liberalised?

Technorati Tags: Abortion, Pro-life There is a very interesting post over on Labour Home about the debate, due very soon, about the changes to the abortion law. I have made every clear on this blog that I am very much in favour of lowering the dates at which termination can take place. My reasons are [...]

War Horse

Technorati Tags: War Horse, National Theatre During the week I went to the press night of a new national Theatre production of Michael Malpurgo’s novel ‘Warhorse’. I went with some trepidation wondering how on earth they would mimic the horse mounted warfare of World War One on a stage. It was one of the most [...]