Tag Archives: Wasting taxpayers' money

Sunlight Centre roasts Ed Balls

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
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 , , , , , | 2 Comments

MPs sleaze, greed, incompetence and fraud: a timely reminder

By scrubber | Published: May 5, 2010
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 , , , , , , | 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

Euro-referendum: it might just happen…

By scrubber | Published: April 9, 2010
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 , , , , | 1 Comment

Gordon Brown ignores ‘heckling’ father

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 8, 2010
As reported in the Telegraph and in other national newspapers/broadcasts today, Gordon Brown was challenged by a father over why his children cannot get in to the schools they would like. I would highly recommend watching the video on the Telegraph article. Little amuses me more than seeing politicians (servants of the people?) [...]
Posted in Education, General Election, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair | 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

23 senior businessmen slate Darling’s NI rises.

By scrubber | Published: April 1, 2010
The Telegraph has published a letter today from 23 Chief Executives and other similarly-ranked businessmen trashing Alastair Darling’s plans to raise NI next year. The Labour spin machine has gone into overdrive, wheeling out Mandleson, so they must be rattled. Anyone with half a brain can see that penalising employees earning over £20Kpa and their employers [...]
Posted in Economy, General Election, Ministerial incompetence, New Labour, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

TPA: Tax under a Labour Government

By scrubber | Published: March 31, 2010
Cracking video from the Tax Payers’ Alliance: Enjoy… Wikio Wikio
Posted in General Election, Gordon Brown, Taxation | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

France rejects ‘Green Taxes’.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
Once more, France puts our own leaders to shame by putting France first, and adopting a realistic view of the world. Reported in the Daily Mail yesterday, and little publicised as far as I’ve seen, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told a meeting of MPs in Parliament that the priority for the country was getting [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Economy, European Union, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment