Tag Archives: Local Government

How the left loves to censor free speech.

By scrubber | Published: February 8, 2011
Daniel Hannan has written about this several times, and he’s right, the left does love to censor free speech. He writes here and here about the hypocrisy of the left, and the way it uses insults and spittle-flecked invective to sully its opponents. However, today I want to draw readers’ attention to an article in today’s [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Daniel Hannan, Jobsworth, Legal lunacy, Local Government, NHS, Nanny State, New Labour, Political Stupidity, Taxpayers' Money, Waste | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

BNP candidate forcibly removed by Police at O&S election hustings.

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2011
As a Libertarian, I hold no torch for the BNP, a far-left, socialist nationalist party, but they are, as far as I can tell, a legally-constitued political party, and they have fielded candidates in elections in the UK for many years. As such, they have a perfect, and legally-endorsed, right to play a full and [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption, Local Government, Parliament, Police, UKIP | Also tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Judge slams government for short sentences on teenage thugs – can broken Britain ever be fixed?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: March 12, 2010
As was reported in the Daily Mail today, Judge Kerry Macgill has hit out at government statutory guidelines for not allowing long-term custodial sentences to be imposed. Four teenagers, including two girls, forced a 17-year-old with learning disabilities from the children’s home in which he lived and repeatedly kicked and punched him, poured boiling water over [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Legal lunacy, Local Government, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, Police | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Mother fined £50 because her toddler dropped a banana skin.

By Jackal | Published: February 18, 2010
North East Lincolnshire Council are in line for this weeks ‘name and shame’ award. The Telegraph reported a case where a mother has been fined £50 by a council warden when her toddler dropped a banana skin out of her pram. Mrs Allen by her own admission, had seen the banana skin drop to the floor [...]
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Fancy £100Kpa and a £2m house in Maida Vale? Come on down!

By scrubber | Published: February 16, 2010
Proof, as if proof were ever needed, that the incompetence of this Government knows no bounds. This article in the Daily Mail yesterday is a shocker… “A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb. Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 [...]
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Gordon Brown, Legal lunacy, Local Government, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Deemed offensive: Job advert that asked for a reliable person!

By scrubber | Published: January 27, 2010
I can’t decide whether this is a candidate for the “you couldn’t make it up” department, or the “the bloody country’s gone mad” department. Just when this PC nonsense seems incapable of getting any worse, it does! Our thanks to the Mail and the Express for this one, from the Jobcentre Plus office in Thetford, Norfolk. The [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Local Government, Nanny State, Quangoes, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Really?

By scrubber | Published: January 18, 2010
Our gratitude to the Telegraph for this one; something to worry us all… According to the article, the delayed £224 million ContactPoint database, which contains personal details of all 11 million children in England, has suffered at least 3 ’serious’ security breaches, in London, Staffordshire and Surrey, according to details obtained under the Freedom of Information [...]
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Balloons outside shop are health and safety risk!

By scrubber | Published: November 24, 2009
Today’s contribution from the elf-n-safety pool of madness has popped up in the Solihull News. A couple with a shop in Solihull, West Midlands has been told by Solihull Council that the balloons they put outside their shop constitute a health and safety risk and must be removed. When confronted with the obvious stupidity of this position, [...]
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