Telford & Wrekin Council set up a private limited company with the Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency, called Transforming Telford. The company spent over £1m last year whilst running as a “shadow company” (ie. not doing anything).  Only 2 of the board members are elected councillors, the rest being representatives from regional quangos [...]

I know there have been a few surveys recently but can I just point you to the State of the Union survey?

Tony Sharp of The Waendel Journal has a short survey on devolution, the union and the traitors heading up the top 3 parties. The survey is here.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is holding “consultation” on whether the British flag should be flown from English public buildings all year round. Regardless of the results, the English flag will be supressed in favour of the British flag because that’s what suits the racist British government but it’s still worth putting in your views, [...]

The SNP have ruled out flying the British flag over Scottish Executive buildings and are planning to force public buildings in Scotland to fly the Scottish flag instead.  They are also planning to change the rules north of the border to allow the Scottish flag to be flown with precedence to the British flag. The [...]

Iain Dale would like people to contact him with their top 20 political blogs and is even offering a prize of £100 worth of political DVDs for the list randomly pulled out of a hat. Click here for more information from Mr Dale.

The English language sometimes makes it hard to convey your actual meaning in writing but, on the other hand, it makes for suitably ambiguous headlines like this one. Some time ago, the British government tried to change the law so that “terrorist suspects” could be locked up for 3 months without charge.  The attempt failed as [...]

I’m all for sharing a bit of blogger love so if anyone links to me and I don’t link to them, leave your details in the comments and I’ll add a link. Also, what does everyone think of picture blogrolls?  I’ve seen a few but they make the sidebar 3 miles long and they slow [...]

Shambo the sacred bull has finally been taken away for slaughter. The bull was being kept by a bunch of (mostly white from what I’ve seen) Hindu’s in Wales who, of course, revere cows as sacred animals.  The bull tested positive for Bovine TB which is highly contageous and, if allowed to run its course, [...]

A couple of months ago Gordon Brown said that he wanted a “different kind of politics”.  He said that he would “listen and learn”.  Gordon Brown is a liar. When Shropshire County Council first proposed abolishing local councils and replacing them with a single, sub-regional unitary authority, people said they didn’t want it.  Three of the five [...]

The meeting of the British-Irish Council last week agreed to tie the UK and Irish driving licence penalty points systems into each other. Steps are already being taken to harmonise the UK and Northern Ireland systems as the way the law stands at the moment, the holder of a British driving licence can accumulate 9 [...]

When the smoking ban was first proposed, I don’t think anyone would have predicted a situation where the “rights” of a smoker would be put above those of disabled people. Believe it or not, the Holiday Inn in Telford has painted out one of its four disabled parking spaces and put picnic tables and umbrellas [...]

Our celtic friends have long memories.  Half of them couldn’t tell you what caused either of the world wars or who took part in the Boer or Crimean wars but they can give you a magnificent account of the Battle of Banockburn or the Battle of Culloden.  They’ll reel off a long list of everything that the [...]

The BBC seem to be incapable of performing their duties as a public service broadcaster just lately. Their role, as a taxpayer-funded public service broadcaster, is to provide honest, quality, factual and unbiased programming.  They are specifically prohibited in their charter from following a partial agenda, including that of the British government.  They are most [...]

A black binman from Burnley has been banned from wearing his Cross of St George bandana at work because it might be racist and/or offensive. Pendle Council told Matthew Carter that they had received complaints and gave him a verbal warning.  He was told that he is not allowed to wear any clothing with a [...]

There is some serious flooding around the country, particularly here in the Midlands.  We’ve escaped most of it here in Telford – only Ironbridge really suffers from serious flooding and it’s not really in Telford anyway. Ludlow has been hit quite badly again having lost a bridge a couple of weeks ago but the south [...]

Liebour have managed to hold on to the Sedgefield and Ealing Southall constituencies but have lost big chunks of their majorities to … the Illiberal Dumocrats. Traitor Bliar’s old constituency of Sedgefield returned the Liebour candidate, Phil Wilson, but Liebour saw its majority drop by 14% with an 11% swing towards the Llib Dums who [...]

The Biased Broadcasting Corruption Corporation is doing No Mandate Brown’s work for him again. The Scottish weather presenter on BBC Breakfast this morning declared that there was a flood warning for “Southern Britain”. Where is this “Southern Britain?” I hear you ask. The map pans out to reveal heavy rain sweeping across … England and [...]

I phoned Evesham yesterday to find out the progress of the repair on my Evesham laptop. “It’s repaired but it’s not been shipped yet”. Brilliant, it’s round the corner, I’ll go and fetch it. “I don’t think you can do that sir” … I’ll cut out the disagreement that ensued, you can fill in the [...]

An interesting piece in this months Private Eye. Shropshire has a reputation for producing fearsome judges and it’s good to see Judge Onions carrying that on. Down on the Farm A MURKY drama unfolded recently in a Shrewsbury courtroom reminding us yet again of the unhealthy closeness between the officials of Defra and the pharmaceutical [...]