Tag Archives: Wasting taxpayers' money
The economic consequences of Mr. Brown
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 Broken Britain, David Cameron, Fiscal incompetence, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Tony Blair, Wasting taxpayers' money 2 Comments
Scroungers on £42k a year benefits because they’re better off not working
Today’s instalment of why Britain is so totally screwed after 13 years of Labour administration is brought to us by thisismoney.co.uk. To summarise, Peter Davey and his wife Claire have seven children, with yet another one on the way, and have an ‘income’ of £815 per week (£42,500 pa) entirely in benefits. To [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Taxpayers' Money Also tagged Broken Britain, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
Andrew Neal ambushes Diane Abbott
I happened to catch This Week last night on the Beeb, and noticed that Diane Abbott had re-appeared next to Michael Portillo on the sofa. She’s been off campaigning for the Labour leadership, apparently.
Speaking personally, I have no major feelings either way on her, or her chances of winning the leadership. Frankly, I don’t care [...]
Posted in Ed Balls, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Parliament, Taxpayers' Money Also tagged Diane Abbott, MPs Expenses, New Labour, Wasting taxpayers' money 3 Comments
Why shouldn’t Britain go the same way as Greece? (and other musings)
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 David Cameron, European Union, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, Gordon Brown, Taxation, UKIP, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
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 Corruption, 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 Corruption, General Election, Gordon Brown, MPs Expenses, New Labour, NHS, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
13 years of Labour: how much we have forgotten
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 Broken Britain, Fiscal incompetence, General Election, Gordon Brown, Minsterial incompetence, MPs Expenses, Nanny State, New Labour, Tony Blair, Wasting taxpayers' money 2 Comments
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 Corruption, 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
Euro-referendum: it might just happen…
A bit late in the day, I know – we’ve all been snowed under recently – but I just picked this up from Daniel Hannan’s blog. My initial feeling, borne out by reading the comments after the blog, was that this was some CCHQ spin to try to counter the defections to UKIP by core [...]
Posted in David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Tony Blair Also tagged Daniel Hannan, David Cameron, European Union, General Election, Wasting taxpayers' money 1 Comment
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Zac Goldsmith: what a twat.