The EU is interfering again in the free market and is recommending that a tariff adding up to 66% onto the cost of energy-saving lightbulbs from China is retained for another year.
The tariff is to protect the four European energy-saving lightbulb manufacturers from cheap Chinese imports but only the German company, Osram, is asking for [...]

David Cameron, leader of the “eurosceptic” Conservative Party, has answered questions from readers of the Shropshire Star.  One of the questions was as follows:
Can you explain why politicians of all major parties think it is a good thing for Britain to be a part of a federal Europe and continue to say it is not [...]

This letter was in last night’s Shropshire Star … 

Battle for fairness on matters of treatment
I must say that I became quite emotional when I heard that my constituent, Mrs Jeannie Evans, of Frankwell, had finally been allowed the vital drug Avastin which will save her life.
At first she was told that this would not be [...]

I love reading the letters page of my local rag and seeing which ones have been written by councillors but signed in their own names.
Take this for example:
[snip]
I would also like to respond to the comment in the Star from Cllr Eade of a “fast track regeneration” of Dawley.  May I respectively [sic] remind him [...]

PJC Journal has a post on the apparently imminent break-up of Belgium and an article in Le Figaro calling on President Sarkozy of France to prepare for the annexation of Wallonia, the French speaking region of Belgium.
It’s no secret that Belgium has been on the rocks for a while.  Flanders has had an independence movement [...]

The Electoral Commission is to appeal the ruling that UKIP should only pay back £18,481 of the £367,697 donations it recieved in good faith that later turned out to be unacceptable.
The largest part of the contested amount is a donation from Alan Brown, a retired bookmaker, who was taken off the electoral register without his knowledge [...]

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a New Liebour puppet, has decided that there should be a National Britishness Day the day after Remembrance Sunday to promote Britishness and build a British identity.
The national holiday should ask people to give back to their community (whether they mean geographic or ethnic/religious they don’t say), celebrate [...]

I’ve not read a newspaper or seen a telly for a week having been in a tent in a field for the duration but today I see that there are major fires all over Greece and that arson is suspected.
Several people have died in the fires, including firefighters.  Several arrests have been made for arson [...]

I’m back from my camping trip, normal service will resume shortly.
Thanks to Gareth for keeping an eye on things while I was away.

Going camping … get it?

Press Release: AWM – Words are small comfort when there is very little to back them up
The West Midlands NO! Campaign is urging people not to be taken in by Advantage West Midlands’ self-congratulations over its response to the recent floods.
The £2m which AWM is claiming to be giving out in flood relief is money [...]

Ashley Mote, the former UKIP MEP who left to join a far-right European group as an independent, has been convicted of benefit fraud.
The MEP was claiming thousands in unemployment benefits between 1996 and 2002 but failed to notify the DWP of changes to his circumstances.  He was elected as an MEP in 2004 for UKIP but the [...]

The Identity & Passport Service website has some “FAQs and myths” on its website about ID Cards and the National Identity Register.  The pages in question can be found at http://www.identitycards.gov.uk/faqs-and-myths.asp
Lets have a look at some of the “FAQs” and “myths”:

Who will be eligible to have an ID card?
Anyone over the age of 16 and [...]

Apologies to those of you who have no interest in Shrewsbury Town or football in general but I just have to mention Shrewsbury’s second game of the season – Tuesday night’s game against Championship team Colchester which Shrewsbury won 1-0.  It was very nearly 1-1 in extra time but the goalkeeper managed to save a [...]

The Americans have declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – the religious army of Iran – a foreign terrorist organisation.  This is, of course, a prelude to American freedom fighters going in to save the world and liberate the Iranians from their oppresive government.
According to the BBC, the Revolutionary Guard is estimated to have 125,000 troops consisting [...]

The Scottish National Party has caused a bit of an upset both north and south of the border by pressing ahead with its manifesto promise of holding a referrendum on Scottish independence.
All the other parties in the Scottish Parliament with the exception of the Greens who are in coalition with the SNP, have promised to [...]

The British government’s own Foreign Affairs Committee has criticised the delay in calling for a cease-fire when Israel invaded Lebanon saying that it has damaged our reputation.
When Israel decided to punish Lebanon because a group of terrorists kidnapped a couple of their soldiers, Traitor Bliar waited a few weeks before calling for the illegal attack on Lebanon to [...]

Despite the metrication project instigated by our masters in the European Federation, we are still predominantly an imperial country but despite the European Federation graciously allowing us to use imperial measurements beyond their forced-metrication deadline, efforts to wipe out imperial measurements are being stepped up.
When I went to primary school 20-odd years ago we had [...]

The Tartan Army have taken time out from buying football shirts for every team England might play in the next 12 months and learning the words to Irish republican songs and have set up a website opposed to the creating of a British football team.
The No Team GB website has the support of the Association [...]

Lincoln 0 – 4 Shrewsbury 
Shrewsbury Town got off to an excellent start to the season giving Lincoln a good seeing to in the first match of the new season in their brand new stadium.
Lincoln were one of the teams Shrewsbury was competing against at the end of last season for the final play-off place.
Not only [...]

I have implemented Gravatars in the comments for Wonko’s World.
If you have a Gravatar account already, make sure you use the email address your Gravatar is registered to for it to appear in the comments.
A Gravatar is a Globally Recognised Avatar which, in laymans terms, means a picture that you can use on Gravatar-enabled websites.  [...]

The BBC has started publishing the British government’s ID card propaganda.
There is a link on the BBC News website tonight entitled “Fingertip search: How biometric border controls are tackling illegal immigration”.  The article is talking about what the British government says is going to happen in the future assuming they manage to get biometrics working [...]

A 4 year old girl was tortured to death by her mum and her mum’s boyfriend.  When the paramedics turned up they found her with over 100 injuries including fag burns, bruises and bites that had been inflicted over the period of a month.
What sort of punishment is suitable for the kind of people who [...]

A High Court review of NICE’s decision not to allow English alzheimers patients to have the drug Aricept on the NHS has failed.
NICE is the British government body that decides which medical treatments English people can have on the NHS.  The name – National Institute for Clinical Excellence – is a sick joke.  It is [...]

The discredited model used by the group of UN “scientists” that resulted in the climate change report that is being used by governments – especially our own – as an excuse to intoruce “green” taxes, has been used again by the same group of scientists to predict climate change over the next 10 years.
Once again [...]

Eveshambles have finally gone into administration after much prevaricating and assurances from the last surviving director that all was well.
The news is hardly a surprise thanks to the Evesham employees who have been spilling the beans on Evesham in the comments on this blog.  People spending their hard-earned cash with Evesham might have been better [...]

A few weeks ago I swallowed my pride, bit the bullet and decided to line Rupert Murdoch’s grubby pockets again.  Telewest (now Virgin) couldn’t get my broadband to work properly for 3 months and couldn’t tell me when they were planning on fixing it so I gave them the boot and had a scout round [...]

The High Court has found partially in favour of UKIP and against the Electoral Commission in UKIP’s appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling that it should hand over a £367k donation to the Treasury.
The donation was given by Alan Brown, a millionaire bookmaker, but fell foul of rules designed to catch foreigners buying political patronage [...]

An 18 year old girl has been refused permission to apply for a job with the  Environment Agency because she is white and English.
The application form asked for ethnic origin and included “White Other, eg. Irish, Welsh, Scottish”.  The application said that preference would be given to those from minorities.  When asked if being White English ruled [...]