Tag Archives: Corruption
Goldsmith, Huhne and Balls; election expenses investigation started.
I received an email today from the excellent Sunlight Centre for Open Politics, an organisation dedicated to transparency in politics.
The blog entry behind the email can be found here and the full email including a “donate” button can be found here. I’ve reproduced the email below, but I urge readers to go to the email [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, MPs Expenses Also tagged Ben Gummer, Ed Balls, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, MPs Expenses 3 Comments
Sunlight Centre roasts Ed Balls
The Sunlight Centre for Open Politics sent out an email last night drawing our attention to their new video, dubbed an “attack ad” about Ed Balls. The Centre is “committed to helping voters, bloggers, and journalists be their own watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitising new information, and by using new website [...]
Posted in Corruption, Ed Balls, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money Also tagged Ed Balls, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, Wasting taxpayers' money 2 Comments
MPs sleaze, greed, incompetence and fraud: a timely reminder
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 [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, General Election, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, NHS, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money Also tagged General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, New Labour, NHS, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
Suffering from election fatigue?
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 [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP Also tagged Daniel Hannan, David Cameron, EU, Euro, European Union, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, MPs Expenses, Nanny State, New Labour, Nigel Farage, Quangoes, Recession, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
Cause a political earthquake; oust the troughing Squeaker!
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 [...]
Lord Sugar gives £400,000 to Labour’s election campaign
For a man who’s allegedly worth £800m, Alan Sugar appears to have very little nous. It’s hard to understand why a man who had an apparently hard start in life followed by what is by anyone’s criteria, a highly successful business career, would throw away the best part of half-a-mill of his hard-earned on a [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, New Labour Also tagged Broken Britain, General Election, Gordon Brown, New Labour 1 Comment
Google Hollie Greig
I hadn’t heard anything about this, in part for reasons that will become clear as you read on, so I thank Elizabeth Robillard, a Facebook fan of ours, for bringing it to my attention.
Old Holborn (of Nick Hogan fame) has covered this extensively and excellently, so I am also hanging on to his coat-tails to [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, Local Government, Police Also tagged Police, Social Services 4 Comments
MPs for hire! £3000-£5000 a day. Grab yours now!
This scandal has already been covered all over the ‘net, so we won’t re-invent the wheel here. Suffice to say that the Times article is well worth a read.
Our old friend Guido has an interesting slant on this, regarding Stephen Byers’ membership of the Privy Council. It is clear that his continued membership of the [...]
Head of ‘Climategate’ research unit admits withholding data about global temperatures
Today’s Daily Mail, a long-time champion of transparency in the self-inflicted CRU’s Global Warming furore, has reported on Professor Phil Jones’ appearance before the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee inquiry yesterday.
Described as pale and shaky, Prof. Jones, erstwhile Head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit which was at the centre of the [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Ministerial incompetence, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Technology Also tagged Climate Change, Taxation, Wasting taxpayers' money Leave a comment
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