UK governments ‘hold back Scotland’ Fine, then leave, Jimmy. That’s really rich, given West Lothian and the Barnett formula but let’s not dwell on such things now. If Scotland goes, then that’s that many less Lib Dem and Labour MPs in parliament, which gives a new Sanity party, maybe called UKP, a sporting chance to take out 2015. I can see a scenario where the new party takes 10-15% of…
If you want an anti-smoking ban site, here’s one. My blogroll has dozens more. Also in the sidebar is the link to the anti-Smoking Ban site. The smoking ban is iniquitous, along with minimum price liquor and various other things. The sight of those poor sods having to go outside in all weathers for a puff is one of the blights on our society and what for? Another PC fascist…
From Guestposter Amfortas on the smoking situation downunder, showing this PC phenomenon is not just over here: BAN on smoking could be the death knell for Tasmania’s agricultural shows, the chief of the Hobart Show says. Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania chief executive Scott Gadd says his staff will not police the new rule at the Hobart Show in October. The former top public servant is angry at the smoke-free…
It’s a bit soon perhaps, while Cameron is still in the process of wrecking the Conservative Party this evening, to look at the next year. If these figures can be believed: Survation Poll out now – General Elections 2015 Voting Intention: LAB 35% CON 24% UKIP 22% LDEM 11% Survation – European Elections 2014 Voting Intention: LAB 31% UKIP 30% CON 20% LDEM 8% Mike Smithson of Political Betting also…
Ellie Mae O’Hagen on those disquieting austerity poll results: This week’s crisis is brought to you by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has released a report showing that attitudes of the British public towards poverty have hardened – and the most marked shift has been among Labour voters. Whoops! These days only 27% of Labour supporters cite social injustice as the main cause of poverty, down from 41% in 1986.…
Via This is True: Two second-graders from Driver Elementary School in Suffolk, Va., were suspended. The 7-year- old boys’ crime: using pencils as “guns.” They pointed the writing instruments at each other and made “shooting noises,” which violated the school’s zero tolerance policy prohibiting “look-alike guns.” That’s “intimidating and threatening,” said school spokeswoman Bethanne Bradshaw. “It doesn’t have a place in the classroom.” She added that doing the same thing…
Three cheers for the Black Horse Pub: … when hundreds of people enjoyed a fun day after a 5km walk to raise money for the Chartwell Cancer Trust. Among the revellers helping to pay for staff who work at the Chartwell Unit at Princess Royal University Hospital, Locksbottom, was 90210 television star Shenae Grimes. Three boos for the Black Horse Pub: Drinkers were casually enjoying a Friday night drink when…
Matty Sinclair asks a good question: Why are there three taxes on your wages? There is Income Tax, Employee’s National Insurance and Employer’s National Insurance. All those taxes take part of the money that your employer pays for your services and gives it to the Government. Why don’t we just call it what it is? Income Tax. It is really important that we don’t let the politicians get away with…
Tesco has defended its decision to label a children’s chemistry set a boys’ toy, despite criticism from gender equality campaigners. Oh. Those. Campaigners from Let Toys Be Toys, an online pressure group that is calling on retailers not to limit children’s development by promoting separate “boys’” and “girls’” toys, said that Tesco’s labelling of its “Action Science Chemistry Set” was sexist. A bunch of people with too much time on…
There was Bullfinch. You’ve also no doubt been following the Oxford Abuse coverup and these things are nowadays so common across the country that one can almost become blaise about it – there are too many things to worry about. Nevertheless, this 45 minutes out of your life does show the deeper picture of what is going on at the official level in our society, especially at council level. And…
…it’s creating dependency: Imagine a world where a parent will go without food so their children can eat. It may sound like something from a Victorian novel, but this is the reality in 2013 – and the reality in North East Lincolnshire. Yes, this is yet another in the rapidly-becoming-tedious series of woe and disaster articles in local newspapers over changes to the benefits system. Record numbers of people are…
You probably saw it at ZeroHedge: We, and the TBAC, previously made clear there is a massive shortage of high-quality collateral – the stuff that forms the backbone of modern monetary practice- some $11 trillion to be exact , as the insolvent world encumbers every possible asset that is not nailed down with more and more and more debt. However, we didn’t realize that the asset shortage has also spread…
How many times does it take? OK, let’s go back to the Tory Conference of 2009 and Roger Helmer MEP: The EU works on the principle of occupied ground, promising to return powers under the principle of subsidiarity but in effect, never returning them once subsumed. So it’s not as if it is not known. Either people telling the inexactitude that repatriation of powers is possible under the treaty are…
Dedicated to Julia: Contemplating my penchant for attracting nut cases, immediately after the incident I heard on the radio that a bicyclist in his 50s was killed zooming down a hill on a busy thoroughfare training for an upcoming race. I walked into a room where a television report displayed a mug shot of the poor guy who hit the cyclist, as if he was a murder suspect. He is…
Katherine Stewart has reservations about Muslim teaching methods, and the damage they may be doing to vulnerable young minds: Much of fundamentalist home schooling is driven by deeply sexist and patriarchal ideology. The Koranic movement teaches that women need to submit to their husbands and have as many babies as they possibly can. The effects of these ideas on children are devastating, as a glance at HA’s blogs show. “The…
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