Category Archives: Taxpayers' Money

MPs sleaze, greed, incompetence and fraud: a timely reminder

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
Before you cast your vote tomorrow, take a look at these two films and remind yourself what and whom you are voting for… These films courtesy of Gary Walker, the Independent Parliamentary Candidate for Lincoln, are extremely well-made and powerful. In these days of high-paced media-action, we forget so much so fast. MPs expenses, the scandal and [...]
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13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
This film speaks for itself: it should be compulsory viewing for anyone tempted to vote Labour tomorrow. It wasn’t until the end that I realised who’d made it: powerful stuff. I wonder how they kept it so short… Wikio Wikio
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Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
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Cause a political earthquake; oust the troughing Squeaker!

By scrubber | Published: April 22, 2010
Hat-tip to Guido for this, which needs to be shared far and wide… Donate to Nigel Farage’s campaign to oust expenses-fiddling John Bercow from Parliament. Yes, the allegedly Tory, now allegedly neutral one with the wife who’s a Labour candidate for Westminster Council in the forthcoming elections… As Nigel says: “If I can topple the Speaker, I [...]
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Labour MPs claiming legal aid to fight expenses claims (may) have to pay it back

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 13, 2010
Labour MPs on legal aid, I hear you cry? To fight the cases raised against them for fiddling expenses? I know, it’s absolutely unbelievable. Or at least it would be, if we weren’t being ruled one one of the most corrupt, despicable and totally immoral governments ever to disgrace the hallowed halls of Westminster. Gordon [...]
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The Department of Government Waste releases new information video.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
Ok, this April Fool, which isn’t in the least funny, but excellent nonetheless, deserves its own blog entry. Watch the advert. Class! Download the PDF!. Frightening… Wikio Wikio
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23 senior businessmen slate Darling’s NI rises.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
The Telegraph has published a letter today from 23 Chief Executives and other similarly-ranked businessmen trashing Alastair Darling’s plans to raise NI next year. The Labour spin machine has gone into overdrive, wheeling out Mandleson, so they must be rattled. Anyone with half a brain can see that penalising employees earning over £20Kpa and their employers [...]
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Tories lose Poll lead after Budget!

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2010
After what was, at best, a non-budget, albeit hammering Middle England yet again, Labour has finally gone ahead in the Polls. Well, one poll; today’s poll for BBC2’s Daily Politics show by COMRES Naturally, even though this wasn’t a poll of voting intentions in the election, this is being trumpeted all over the left-wing press such [...]
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France rejects ‘Green Taxes’.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
Once more, France puts our own leaders to shame by putting France first, and adopting a realistic view of the world. Reported in the Daily Mail yesterday, and little publicised as far as I’ve seen, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told a meeting of MPs in Parliament that the priority for the country was getting [...]
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Tories “crowd source” for a Budget response.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
In what is, frankly, a great move (prompted by DizzyThinks), the Tories have decided to tap into the power of the ‘Net to pick apart Alastair Darling’s Party Political Broadcast Budget yesterday. For the full explanation on what crowd sourcing is, see wikipedia, but briefly, it’s tapping into the huge number of people on the [...]
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