Tag Archives: Wasting taxpayers' money

The Brussels Bunglers have no Plan B

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2011
As the tragedy of Greek debt continues, the EU leaders, as can be seen in the following video, openly admit that there is no Plan B. Their only option, the only one they have considered and will consider, is another bail-out. This despite the fact that the previous one didn’t work (and nor will this [...]
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The European Renewable Energy Council is taxpayer-funded

By scrubber | Published: June 20, 2011
In my blog yesterday I referred to a posting by Christopher Booker and included a quote from it which in turn included the following: “It was based solely on a paper co-authored last year by an employee of Greenpeace International and something called the European Renewable Energy Council. This Brussels-based body, heavily funded by the [...]
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IPCC caught out again

By scrubber | Published: June 19, 2011
The current furore surrounding the IPCC’s latest report on the potential of renewable energy has been extensively covered in the MSM and on the blogosphere. The interesting part is the almost universally uncritical reporting in the MSM, and the virtually total opposite on the blogosphere. The reason for the latter is simple: As James Delingpole observes, [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Corruption, Ministerial incompetence, Political Stupidity, Taxation, Waste | Also tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

10 more reasons Socialism can’t and will never work.

By scrubber | Published: June 3, 2011
William John Henry Boetcker. Who? Born in Hamburg in 1873, he migrated to America as a young adult, becoming a Presbyterian minister soon after his arrival. Wikipedia says that he “is perhaps best remembered for his authorship of a pamphlet entitled The Ten Cannots. Originally published in 1916…”. Personally, I would argue that most people, certainly outside [...]
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Socialism encapsulated

By scrubber | Published: May 26, 2011
Here is a picture (thanks to Old Holborn for posting it) which shows clearly why Socialism doesn’t, and will never, work. As Margaret Thatcher once said: “The trouble with Socialists is that eventually they run out of other people’s money”. Click the picture to enlarge it, which is well worth doing, but try not to be [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Economy, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Taxpayers' Money, Waste | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

If Monty Python did Euro-ceremonies…

By scrubber | Published: May 10, 2011
People often ask me why I’m Euro-sceptic. Well, the following nicely illustrates a tiny part of that. Yesterday was Europe Day, a day after what we in the UK used to call VE-Day… Firstly, in the following film, take note of the German Eagle, the militarism, the guns, the inability to properly raise the flag, the [...]
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Fire Sale!

By scrubber | Published: April 4, 2011
Ok, quiz time… What is the missing word, and when was the following written? “The ****** government in Britain is imposing budget cuts in the Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) that will result in hundreds of job losses and compromise public safety. The Audit Commission, the unelected body used by the central government to impose market-based discipline [...]
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Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2011
Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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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

Are the Essex police especially thick?

By scrubber | Published: January 13, 2011
I thank a reader and the London Evening Standard’s web site for this gem: “A police force had to spend thousands of pounds fixing vehicles after officers put petrol in diesel cars — despite “talking” fuel caps warning them not to. Officers from Essex Police used the wrong fuel 332 times in the past seven years at [...]
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