Birmingham Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Birmingham City Council were criticised yesterday for arranging a seminar for local businesses on how to move their business away from the West Midlands. The President of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, ironically, has a seat on the board of Advantage West Midlands, the unelected regional development agency whose [...]

Advantage West Midlands, the unelected Regional Devleopment Agency, has some targets set by what is now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The half-year results for April-September 2007 have now been published and on balance it’s looking … well, a bit poor really. The first target is job creation – how many jobs [...]

I’ve taken the MSN and Skype online status out of my sidebar to speed things up a bit, tweaked the header to display better on smaller screen resolutions and I’ve made a few festive additions. Let me know if I’ve broken anything. Technorati Tags: Christmas, WordPress

The British government has announced that a review of market liberalisation in the postal sector to see how it has affected Royal Mail and to consider how to maintain the universal service. The BBC says that the report has the following 3 objectives: Assess impact of market liberalisation Look at future market trends Consider how [...]

I’d forgotten all about the Britblog Roundup until I saw an incoming link from Matt Wardman. My post on the EU admitting it was a tinpot dictatorship gets a mention. Funnily enough, I was thinking this morning that we haven’t had a Witanagemot roundup for a long time.  I was going to do one today [...]

A group of scientists in America have predicted that Arctic summers will be ice-free in 5-6 years time. Eco-terrorists have been bleating about the receding ice caps and declining permafrost for a while now with their doom and gloom predictions about mass flooding all over the world.  The BBC provides a helpful graphic to illustrate [...]

About 18,000 trade union members have taken to the streets in Belgium to protest about rising prices and the fact that they haven’t got a government. The protest was organised by the three main trade unions in Belgium which collectively represent about 3m people.  The population of Belgium is approximately 11m so that’s quite a [...]

The One Eyed wonder of Wankistan, Prime Minister unelect, leader of the rump cabinet, Gordon “No Mandate” Brown, is travelling to Lisbon today to sign the EU not-a-constitution. The EU Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch in referrenda and has now been repackaged into another treaty that is 96% identical but has a [...]

Not my words, Terry Pratchett’s.  My favourite author of all time, the man who brought us the Discworld, has announced that he has early onset of alzheimers. I have read every single novel he’s written, I buy his new books on the day they’re released, I have read and reread them all over and over [...]

The British government is still determined to press ahead with plans for 42 day internment for “terrorist” suspects. As I’ve pointed out, several times before, anti-terrorism laws have so far caught 0 terrorists but have been used to arrest, detain, harass and deny liberty and fundamental constitutional rights for many innocent people. The Home Secretary, Jacqui [...]

David Camoron gave a speech in Edinburgh yesterday in which he extolled the virtues of the union and dashed any hopes that England under the Conswervatives might ever achieve equality. Camoron is a tit.  A complete and utter fucking idiot.  The Tories will never be elected in Scotland yet at every possible opportunity, Camoron treks [...]

According to the Transaction 2007 website, nationwide fuel protests will commence on 12th December. Technorati Tags: Fuel Tax, Protests

Kosovo has suffered terribly at the hands of the Serbs ever since Yugoslavia broke up. For a while now, Federal Europe has provided mediators to try and come up with a solution that would allow Kosovo to remain part of Serbia which would be acceptable to both the Serbs who don’t want to lose Kosovo and [...]

The Portuguese president has described the EU-Africa summit as “a summit of equals”. Human Rights Watch has concerns about the following African nations: Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo (Brazzaville) Cote d’Ivoire Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau [...]

The Road Haulage Association have agreed to back Transaction 2007 in “legal protest action”. The price of fuel in the UK is now higher than ever and mostly thanks to the crippling amount of tax put onto it by the British government.  The average price of a liter of petrol is now over £1.00 thanks [...]

About a year ago, Transforming Telford was officially launched for the first time.  I say first time because they’ve been officially launched at least twice under the name Transforming Telford and once under the name Telford First. The company, Transforming Telford, is another one of these taxpayer-funded, unelected quangos put in place to ensure that [...]

Liebour was given £183,000 by the Electoral Commission in 2001-02 to help them train staff to understand funding rules under the new Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Despite having full training at considerable expense to the taxpayer, Liebour has continued to accept various illegal donations. So, not only did they break the law [...]

Britishness Brown has boycotted a Federal Europe-Zimbabwe summit because the tyrant Mugabe was attending. However, his moral stance doesn’t stretch as far as refusing any representation from the UK – he sent Baroness Amos in his place. Mugabe’s flight should be redirected to the Hague where he should stand trial for crimes against humanity.  Tens [...]

Yesterday I posted an email I sent to my MP giving just a few reasons why the state doesn’t need to extend the amount of time someone can be held without charge from 28 days. Today there is a perfect example of why it is unnecessary. The canoeist, John Darwin, who was reported missing 5 [...]

Hazel Blears, the Communities Minister, is going to tell local authorities and public bodies to stop needlessly translating documents. Documents are routinely translated into any number of foreign languages so that foreigners who don’t speak English don’t feel left out.  The City of Westminster has gone further and started translating road signs into Polish. Blears says that [...]