Archive for January, 2008

Happy Birthday to me

Council bans villagers putting up coffee morning posters on lamp posts

It is quite clear, if this report is correct, that South Somerset District Council is spending money on the wrong priorities. The very idea that putting up a poster to advertise a village coffee morning, providing they are taken down again, is not an anti-social activity. In fact quite the opposite is true, you can [...]

Happy Burn’s night

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“Clear my name”!

He’s gone – sounds a bit like the former member of Tatton – Neil Hamilton! Mr Hain, work and pensions secretary and Wales secretary, said he had stood down so he could “clear my name”. Frankly the man was an odious piece of work who shares the Gordon Brown trait of enjoying the partisan politics [...]

We are all children of Thatcher

Lib Dems betray voters

We would vote against a referendum on the treaty and vote that the real referendum that needs to be had is whether we stay in the EU or not…Calamity Clegg You would have thought that having a new leader was the perfect opportunity to dump this tosh of having a referendum on whether we are [...]

Lib Dems arguing for more taxes

The Lib Dems are today arguing that they want to see a new local income tax as a way to raise local funds for local health services. The trouble with this proposal is that hospitals do not, inconveniently, serve just one local Council, so in fact we could see health starvation as Borough’s refuse to [...]

MPs salaries

Next week there is a vote for MPs to vote through above inflation  pay rises for themselves. I have to admit to being a little bemused why they vote through their own pay rise – maybe it is something I should start in the organisation I run, I wonder how long it would continue trading [...]

CentreRight

A new sub-site of Conservativehome has started up. You can see details of it here. CentreRight: About CentreRight

French MP revives proposal for 1 euro bill

I am not a fan of the Euro – nor am I ever likely to be. I have always believed that a feeling of national sovereignty is linked to a national currency and I know many people in the Eurozone who still miss their own currency. This story that they wish to now introduce a [...]