Q. How do you lose 80 children in just over two years? A. Put them in a children’s home run by Hillingdon council. As incredible as it may seem, that is what has happened to many of the children – mainly of Chinese origin – who have arrived unaccompanied at Heathrow Airport. They are taken […]
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The Home Secretary’s Final Comedy Routine?
As any good comedian knows, it is all in the timing. So what better proof could we have all been shown, than that supplied by the woman who has given us many laughs over the past few weeks, Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith. On the same day she has announced the introduction of the controversial identity […]
Beware The Ninjas Gordon!!
The Ninjas are busy ironing their best black pyjamas and sharpening the points of their knives. While PM Gordon Brown hops from foot to foot on You Tube, looking like an epileptic on steroids, his trusted cabinet colleagues are busy plotting. Last week, Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears, openly stated that her boss had led a […]
A Crashing Time For Police Drivers!
Figures obtained under the Freedom Of Information Act have revealed that police officers caused over 64 accidents per week last year – that’s a staggering 3,357 over the full year. Since 2004, the number of police-related car accidents has also included the loss of 150 lives. These figures may even be lower than they should […]
Iraq – More ‘Official’ Lies!
An article in today’s Independent’s Commentators section by the much respected Robert Fisk highlights the deception that is still being ‘spun’ about our role in Iraq and the state in which the country has been left. The article has been based around a letter, forwarded to him by one of his readers, Tom Geddes, and […]
Iraq – The War of The Vanities!
Today, saw the official ending of our six years of military presence in Iraq. Only future generations will be able to provide a clear answer as to whether we should ever have been in the country in the first place; many of the official documents recording the decision to take military action are still classified […]
Parliamentary P***Heads!
Foreign Office Minister, Gilliam Merron, has been forced to reveal that the government holds a staggering 39,500 bottles of wine, spirits and liqueurs worth around £792,000 in the parliamentary cellars. Maybe, it was because they needed the additional storage space, that they sold all of our gold reserve at bottom of market prices and why […]
Driving Into More Debt!
The much awaited – and feared – budget was announced in Parliament today by the Chancellor. It contained very few surprises and confirmed what we already know – we are heavily overstretched and it will take years to pay back what we have borrowed as a country. One piece of news that did make the […]
Child Poverty – Is It Greed or Need?
Various charities have been lobbying for more funds to be made available in this week’s budget, to tackle child poverty in the UK. What confuses me about the subject, is that there does not seem to be a true definition of what child poverty really is. I fail to remember ever seeing pot-bellied, semi-naked children, […]
Communicating The Truth!
The best analysis of our present government has been made by a veteran civil servant who has said: "They have a strategy group and a communications group, but the truth is that the Government has no strategy and they do not communicate to each other, let alone to the general public." Let’s hope someone can […]