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Darling’s Pre-Budget Positive For Business Finance
So Alistair Darling seems to have come away from the pre-budget report largely unscathed after making only minor tax increases that will in time improve business finance, and thus the state of the UK economy. A 0.5 per cent NI increase will come in from 2011, and the proposed VAT increase back to 17.5 per... »
Home Office News On Domestic Abuse Register Imminent
Since 2003, there have been calls for a domestic violence register – this would give the police the power to list convicted abusers and keep tabs on their whereabouts. It would also include an element of power to decide whether or not to inform appropriate people of their record. At last, after yet another 684... »
Tories Still Out Of Touch
The Tories are at it again, fresh from the MP expenses scandal Conservative MP, Sir Patrick Cormack has stated that politicians should have their salaries doubled: how out of touch with reality could he and many other MPs be? Cormack made this outrageous statement to the Committee on Standards in Public Life which is currently... »
Domestic Violence In Essex: MP Claims People – Not Police – Responsible For Security
For the last two years, my daughter has experienced violent attacks, harassment, death threats and verbal abuse from a former partner. She has moved house five times to try and escape him, with ELEVEN reported incidents to the police and many others that she has been too afraid to report, the total repercussion of this... »
Day 365 In The Big Brother House
It’s official Big Brother is here, and not just on Channel 4 but in our homes… That’s right, but our phone calls and emails are not being intercepted by MI5, they are being tapped by our local councils. 1,500 requests from local councils for communications data were made last year out of the more than... »
Blair Rightly Called To Give Evidence To Iraq Inquiry
News that Tony Blair will be called to give evidence to an independent inquiry regarding the ‘war on terror’ in Iraq is a step in the right direction, but only if people are held accountable and the public are reliably informed of exactly what occurred from the moment the conflict began. Nobody will be tried... »
Was David Cameron’s Twitter Faux Pas Pre-Meditated?
So Tory leader David Cameron appeared on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio show and subsequently swore twice, slagged off the latest internet phenomenon and then apologised for it straight afterwards; not your everyday behaviour of a Prime Minister elect – you couldn’t have imagined John Major behaving in this way could you? Here’s what Cameron said... »
Government To Blame For The Pub Trades’ Demise?
The Pub is a fundamental part of British culture: a place to meet, chew the fat and have a beverage or four after a hard days graft, except that is how it was in every town, city and village throughout working class Britain. Today, fewer people are heading down the local after work, simply because... »
Labour: The Damage Has Been Done
Lord Mandelson’s recent proposal that Labour would not slash the Defence budget if they win the next election whiffs of desperation by an ailing party but also poses a bigger question: haven’t we spent enough on military operations in Afghanistan, both a financially costly facade as well as one that has cost too many... »
Swine Flu Is Serious Stuff But Scaremongering Must Be Reviewed
Yet more scaremongering in the Press over the last couple of days surrounding Swine Flu. Don’t get me wrong, this epidemic is serious stuff, but some of the headlines are beyond the realms of reality and we do need to realise some perspective here. It has been reported that more than 65,000 people could die... »