The Conswervatives have spent nearly three years “consulting” and debating the West Lothian Question and have finally come up with an “answer”.
The “answer” to the West Lothian Question, according to the Conswervatives, is “don’t answer it”.  A marginal improvement over “don’t ask it” but hardly a constructive use of three years and god knows how […]

Charlie Marks, one of the only left wingers in England that doesn’t need their head looking into (surgically), has some background information on Liebour’s new poverty adviser.
Jennifer Moses will be advising Gordon Brown on poverty (combatting it, not causing it - he already knows how to do the latter) as part of his Cabinet of all the […]

A cross-party committee of Lords has called for a cap on immigration after saying that immigration in the last 10 years has had little or no benefit to the existing population.
Talk about stating the bloody obvious.  It’s very easy to “prove” that there’s a net benefit to the economy and quality of life when you […]

I tried to buy train tickets to get to the CEP Conference on the 26th today.
Last week they had tickets for £13 each way on Trainline but this week they’re not available.  The cheapest tickets available at the moment from Telford to London are more than a return from Edinburgh which takes the piss so […]

Via This World is Boldly Going Nowhere, a woman has been hauled in front of a judge for shoplifting … for the 175th time.
Apparently it has cost the taxpayer £700k to prosecute this woman for her unfortunate habit and yet she’s still managed to escape going to prison.
Wonder why she keeps on doing it. […]

A Texas man has been given 25 years in prison for microwaving a baby.
Joshua Maudlin apparently has a history of lying about being mentally ill and guess what his defence was … yup, he was insane when he put his daughter in the microwave for 20 seconds causing second and third degree burns to her […]

For years ethnic minority groups have accused the Police of institutional discrimination - now it’s the turn of the majority to make the same accusation.
Former soldier, Craig Briggs, has wanted to join the Police since he was a child and joined the army to get some experience before applying. After serving 4 and a […]

The British government has announced its intention to shut down England’s radio telescope array, Jodrell Bank.
The Science & Technology Fund is facing an £80m shortfall in its budget which it intends to plug by cutting funding.  So far, £8m of taxpayers money has been spent on the e-Merlin project which is an upgrade to the […]

The Department for Transport has decided to allow drivers to use the hard shoulder of motorways during busy times in a bid to ease congestion.
Great for reducing congestion because it gives you an extra lane and good for the taxpayer because it means they won’t be spending billions on widening motorways.  Not so great for […]

Getting your children into a decent school and getting them a decent education is already enough of a lottery without the latest batshit scheme from British government.
Today saw the introduction of new admissions rules for English schools that will see English children getting allocated places at English schools based on a lottery system.  You may […]

I thought I’d mistakenly typed the wrong url in and got a spoof version of the BBC News website when I read this but no, it’s not a joke.
Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that adopting Sharia Law in the UK is inevitible and we should just get on with it.  He says […]

A passenger sevice between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff has been restored for the first time in 46 years.
The line has been used by freight trains but to make it suitable for passenger trains 18 miles of track had to be refitted at a cost of …
 
£35,000,000
 
Count the zeroes, that’s 35 million pounds for an 18 […]

The British government has announced that bigamist muslims will be allowed to claim Income Support and Tax Credits for all their wives.
Bigamy is illegal here but muslims who marry abroad where it is legal to take up to 4 wives will be allowed to claim the extra benefits which could come to about £10k per […]

As if getting a decent education in England wasn’t enough of a lottery already, the Brit-Scot government in Westminster has decided that schools in England should be required to take a percentage of their intake from outside of their catchment area with those places allocated by a lottery system.
This means that in over-subscribed schools, a child […]

Paul McCartney says that the biggest single thing that anyone can do to combat climate change is become a vegetarian.
The McCartney household must have been a right barrel of laughs when he was still married to Heather Mills - it wasn’t that long ago that Heather Mills suggested we should drink rats milk.
What he says […]

A 14 year old boy in Telford has been given an ASBO after terrorising his local estate, jumping up and down on neighbours cars, wrecking peoples gardens and setting things on fire.  As part of his ASBO the judge has rewarded him with quad bike lessons.
Apparently this is to show him that you can get […]

Archbishop Cranmer tells us about a muslim Marks & Spencers shop assistant who refused to sell a childrens book of bible stories because it was “unclean”.
There have been quite a few stories of late about muslim shop assistants at supermarkets refusing to sell alcohol and, in some cases, to even stack shelves in the alcohol […]

No Mandate Brown has decided to spend god knows how many millions of pounds of our taxes on a teach-yourself-English website with a call centre full of “master trainers” answering calls via VOIP.
Brilliant.  Except the website is being targetted at China and the call centre will be in India.
A fifth of school children in England […]

Harriet Harman has indicated that this year may be the last that MPs get to decide their own pay rises.
The Senior Salaries Pay Board decided MPs should get a 2.8% pay rise this year whilst the British government is forcing English civil servants (but not in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland where they have their […]

The Senior Salaries Review Board has recommended that MPs get a 2.8% pay rise.
They have also recommended that the judiciary get an average of 2.4% staged to make it 1.5%.
No Mandate Brown has been bleating about how pay rises in the public sector in England have to be kept to below 2% because it’s good […]

No, Italy hasn’t decided to have another war with itself, they’re cleaning up rubbish.
A couple of weeks ago dustmen stopped collecting rubbish because the landfill sites were all full and there was nowhere else to take the rubbish.  There are now 100,000 tonnes of rubbish on the streets causing fires and protests.
The problem is that […]

Call Me Dave Camoron has declared the Conswervatives “the party of the NHS” and pledged to fine cash-strapped hospitals for every infection case they have.
Genius.
The rise in “superbugs” in hospitals is down to a change in the way wards are run and cuts in cleaning and maintenance budgets because of the woeful underfunding of the […]

The Russian government has banned a TV ad that denied the existence of Santa Claus who, in Russia is known as Father Frost.
The Federal anti-Monopoly Service said that the advert broke rules on undermining teachers and parents by saying that Santa doesn’t exist and couldn’t be shown on TV.
Quite bizarre!
Technorati Tags: Santa, Russia, […]

The following safety warning was found last night inside a christmas cracker:
Safety Warning
These crackers are for adult use only and not suitable for children under 5 years of age as they may contain a functional sharp point of edge, or small parts, which may constitute a choking hazrd. 
Did I mention that the warning was inside […]

… is good for the gander.
The British government has capped public sector payrises in England to 2% but the Daily Mail reports that MPs are now asking for a 10% pay increase over the next 3 years.
British MPs are paid £60,675 per year as a basic wage and then claim expenses for anything and everything.  They are […]

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 job […]

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 have AWM […]

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
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania and Zanzibar
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

That’s a good 90% of African nations on Human Rights Watch’s list.  So what he’s saying is that the EU and […]

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 public […]

A review of prisons is to recommend that sentencing is linked to the availability of prison places.
Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, has called for more fine and community rehabilitation instead of prison sentences.
Setting aside the fact that simmary justice is illegal and that a massive percentage of court fines either […]

An English teacher sentenced to 15 days in prison in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear “Mohammed” is now facing calls for the death penalty from dress wearing jihadi’s.
Whilst it seems to be perfectly acceptable for the jihadi’s to call their sons Mohammed, a teacher who’s been in the country for a couple […]

From the BBC … 
Ministers have come up with a “vibrant” new message to greet tourists arriving at Scotland’s airports. 
The new message is … “Welcome to Scotland”.
Gosh.
Technorati Tags: Scotland, WTF

A university lecturer who was banned by the Attorney General from taking legal action has found a way round the ban by launching another racial discrimination case in Northern Ireland.
The Hindu “Indian American” was named a vexatious litigant by the Attorney General after starting 40 discrimination cases against various universities and academic bodies in the US and UK.  He […]

The NHS has found something new to spend our money on.  Not something frivilous or wasteful like cancer treatments, but hymen repair jobs for muslim women.
I kid you not.  Muslim women can get a pretend virginity for their husbands free of charge on the NHS.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) refuses lots of medical […]