Tag Archives: Fiscal incompetence

I’m sorry, but it’s Company Policy, Sir…

By scrubber | Published: October 16, 2010
A little personal anecdote here, which perfectly illustrates the nonsense we have to deal with every day, and which infects every layer of our society in a million tiny ways. I steeled my soul, and braved the hordes of be-studded, tattooed, work-shy land-whales and their snot-nosed illegitimate children; the out-of-work Kurds, Bulgarians and sundry be-tanned EU [...]
Posted in Humour, Jobsworth, Waste | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

Ecotards overstep the mark again.

By scrubber | Published: October 2, 2010
I hardly know where to begin with this one. I think I’ll work backwards on it, and start with the 10:10 website. 10:10? Who he? No, I hadn’t heard of it either. It seems that the 10th of October is going to be a “Day of doing”. The aim, apparently, is “Cutting carbon 10% at a [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Nanny State, New Labour, Quangoes, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

HMRC: All your dosh are belong to us

By scrubber | Published: September 7, 2010
Sometimes I ponder on this blog, its future, the direction it has taken and will in future, and not just because the rest of the writing team seems to be permanently on holiday. We originally set out to expose institutional stupidity, but during the Election campaign wrote much from our joint perspective of EU-scepticism, broadly supporting [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Civil Liberties, David Cameron, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Goldsmith, Huhne and Balls; election expenses investigation started.

By scrubber | Published: July 23, 2010
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 , , , , | 4 Comments

Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.

By scrubber | Published: July 20, 2010
I’m in catch-up mode after a couple of weeks working away and quite over-whelmed with the sheer volume of crap falling around our ears worthy of a blog or two. This one stands out, and although a few days old, needs wide dissemination… We’re all well used to politicians not answering questions, their evasion tactics, obfuscation [...]
Posted in David Cameron, General Election, MPs Expenses, Parliament, Political Stupidity, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

The economic consequences of Mr. Brown

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2010
My thanks to our blogging colleague Old Holborn for bringing our attention to the following youtube clip of a speech by Professor Stein Ringen, and thence, by extension, the rather longer version below it. The subject is a book by Professor Ringen called “The Economic Consequences of Mr Brown”: quite a subject… The good Professor is [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Technology, Tories | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)

By DiamondGeezer | Published: May 5, 2010
Prevalent in the news today have been the riots in Greece. The country is now sufficiently unattractive to investors and ratings agencies that their bond markets have frozen, and due to this and their enormous deficit they are no longer able to service their debts. Greek workers’ unions hold enormous sway, and thanks [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Lord Pearson, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tories, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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
Posted in Broken Britain, Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Uncategorized | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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 [...]
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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment